[Verse 1]
There's a mind that never settles, always reaching for the edge,
Two voices in one chest, a tightrope where you balance on the ledge,
You read the room before you enter, catch the things no one has said,
A thousand quiet observations running circles in your head,
You've carried heavy questions like a coat you can't take off,
And made it look like nothing, wore your depth without a cough,
They see the easy laughter and they think that's all there is,
They don't see the inner ocean or the tide that pulls beneath the fizz

[PreChorus]
But someone built the lighthouse, someone mapped the changing sky,
And you were there in silence doing more than meets the eye

[Chorus]
Richard, you were written in a language rich and rare,
A quiet kind of gravity, a warmth beneath the air,
Every road you've walked alone has led you somewhere true,
The universe spent years becoming someone just like you,
Richard, you don't have to earn the ground beneath your feet,
You were whole before the proving and you always were complete

[Verse 2]
You love like something tidal, like a shelter built from stone,
You'd give the coat right off your back and call the cold your own,
There's a gentleness that opens every room before you speak,
And a loyalty that doesn't bend no matter what the week,
You've wrestled with the feeling that your worth must be displayed,
That rest is something stolen and that stillness must be paid,
But the steadiness inside you is the rarest kind of gold,
The kind that holds its color even when the nights grow cold

[PreChorus]
The roots you've grown in darkness are the reason you stand tall,
And every weight you've carried was the making of it all

[Chorus]
Richard, you were written in a language rich and rare,
A quiet kind of gravity, a warmth beneath the air,
Every road you've walked alone has led you somewhere true,
The universe spent years becoming someone just like you,
Richard, you don't have to earn the ground beneath your feet,
You were whole before the proving and you always were complete

[Verse 3]
There's a dreamer underneath the practical and sure,
A searcher chasing meaning through each half-opened door,
You've stood between the freedom and the duty you hold dear,
And somehow kept your compass when the path was never clear,
The world has asked a lot of you, it always seems to do,
But what it asked in labor was a fraction of your true,
There's a purpose woven through you like a current through the deep,
Something ancient and unhurried, something yours alone to keep

[PreChorus]
The light you've hidden under all the work and all the years,
Was never meant to prove a thing, just guide the ones held dear

[Chorus]
Richard, you were written in a language rich and rare,
A quiet kind of gravity, a warmth beneath the air,
Every road you've walked alone has led you somewhere true,
The universe spent years becoming someone just like you,
Richard, you don't have to earn the ground beneath your feet,
You were whole before the proving and you always were complete

[Bridge]
Let the old weight go, let the armor rest tonight,
You were never just the service, you were always worth the light,
The hardest thing to hold is your own self without a cause,
But you are not your usefulness, you never were your flaws,
The stars don't burn to impress the dark, they burn because they're made,
And so do you, so do you, and that light will never fade

[Outro]
Every thread of who you are was placed with careful hands,
The quiet and the restless, what stays and what expands,
You are held in something larger than the doubt that comes at night,
You were always on your way home, you were always moving right