[Verse 1]
There's a stillness in the way you hold your ground,
A patient kind of thunder, barely making sound,
You read the room before you speak a word,
Carrying volumes no one's ever heard,
You love the weight of things that last and grow,
The slow-built fire, the roots that run below,
They see the calm, they don't see the tide,
All those currents running dark and wide inside.

[PreChorus]
You've been the mountain when the world was shaking,
You've held it all together while you're breaking,
And that's a kind of courage no one names,
But it burns in you like an ancient flame.

[Chorus]
Alan, you were written in the deep,
In the language that the earth and oceans keep,
Every scar a proof of how far you've come,
You are whole, you are worthy, you are more than enough,
Alan, let the tide roll in tonight,
You don't have to carry everything toward the light,
The stars already know the man you are,
You were mapped before you started, in every atom and star.

[Verse 2]
There's an ocean underneath your steady face,
A hunger for the truth in every place,
You've chased meaning through the middle of the night,
Through every question that refused the easy light,
You've loved like someone planting something rare,
Slow and deliberate, beyond compare,
You give your loyalty like it's made of stone,
And ask for very little in return when you're alone.

[PreChorus]
You've swung between the hunger and the fear,
Between the open road and keeping people near,
And both of those are yours, and both are true,
There's no contradiction in the wholeness of you.

[Chorus]
Alan, you were written in the deep,
In the language that the earth and oceans keep,
Every scar a proof of how far you've come,
You are whole, you are worthy, you are more than enough,
Alan, let the tide roll in tonight,
You don't have to carry everything toward the light,
The stars already know the man you are,
You were mapped before you started, in every atom and star.

[Verse 3]
There's a mind in you that nothing slips past clean,
You see beneath the surface of the things between,
A quiet authority in how you speak,
The kind that makes a room go still mid-week,
But you've questioned if your presence makes a mark,
If doing enough is all that lights the dark,
Let it be known — your being is the gift,
The ground you hold is what keeps others fixed.

[PreChorus]
You've rebuilt things that others left in ruin,
You've forged a steadiness through all the going through it,
And every wall you built was also proof,
That you knew how to shelter, knew how to hold the roof.

[Chorus]
Alan, you were written in the deep,
In the language that the earth and oceans keep,
Every scar a proof of how far you've come,
You are whole, you are worthy, you are more than enough,
Alan, let the tide roll in tonight,
You don't have to carry everything toward the light,
The stars already know the man you are,
You were mapped before you started, in every atom and star.

[Verse 4]
You've walked the line between the known and vast,
Between what holds the future and what heals the past,
There's a visionary living in your bones,
Who builds cathedrals quietly, alone,
You've felt the pull of something you can't name,
A call beyond ambition, beyond acclaim,
The world receives what you bring without the noise,
That sacred, grounded, unannounced kind of voice.

[PreChorus]
So rest the part that's always proving worth,
You came with something needed here on earth,
Not despite the depth you carry like a stone,
But because of it — you've never been alone.

[Chorus]
Alan, you were written in the deep,
In the language that the earth and oceans keep,
Every scar a proof of how far you've come,
You are whole, you are worthy, you are more than enough,
Alan, let the tide roll in tonight,
You don't have to carry everything toward the light,
The stars already know