[Verse 1]
There's a stillness in the way you hold your ground,
Like deep roots drinking rain without a sound,
You take your time where others rush ahead,
You carry whole worlds quietly in your head,
You notice what most people walk right past,
The kind of mind that makes the fleeting last,
And though you keep your distance, keep it near,
It's not that you don't feel — you feel too clear

[PreChorus]
But underneath the calm, beneath the steady face,
There's a tide that rises when you need your space,
A heart that wants to shine and wants to hide,
A lion and a still lake side by side

[Chorus]
Victor, you were written by something old and wise,
A gentle kind of thunder living behind your eyes,
You don't have to prove it, you don't have to be loud,
The sky made room for you before you knew how
Victor, let the world catch up to where you are,
You were never lost — you were always a star
Not the kind that burns out chasing someone's gaze,
The kind that holds its light through all the haze

[Verse 2]
You love like someone striking a match in the cold,
Immediate and honest, brave and bold,
You give before you're asked, you lead with heart,
But you've been misread before right from the start,
You've searched for someone who could hear between the lines,
Who'd sit with you in silence and still know all the signs,
And yes, you've built a wall or two along the way,
Not out of pride — just learning what you'd let them say

[PreChorus]
But underneath the calm, beneath the steady face,
There's a tide that rises when you need your space,
A heart that wants to shine and wants to hide,
A lion and a still lake side by side

[Chorus]
Victor, you were written by something old and wise,
A gentle kind of thunder living behind your eyes,
You don't have to prove it, you don't have to be loud,
The sky made room for you before you knew how
Victor, let the world catch up to where you are,
You were never lost — you were always a star
Not the kind that burns out chasing someone's gaze,
The kind that holds its light through all the haze

[Verse 3]
There's a fire in you that doesn't need applause,
A vision that won't bend to smaller laws,
You've questioned every ceiling, every door,
Not to break the world — to find what it's for,
And when the ground beneath you shifts and falls away,
You rebuild from the inside, find another way,
The homes you've made inside yourself are strong,
They taught you where you end and where you belong

[PreChorus]
But underneath the calm, beneath the steady face,
There's a tide that rises when you need your space,
A heart that wants to shine and wants to hide,
A lion and a still lake side by side

[Chorus]
Victor, you were written by something old and wise,
A gentle kind of thunder living behind your eyes,
You don't have to prove it, you don't have to be loud,
The sky made room for you before you knew how
Victor, let the world catch up to where you are,
You were never lost — you were always a star
Not the kind that burns out chasing someone's gaze,
The kind that holds its light through all the haze

[Bridge]
You don't have to earn your place in the room,
You were born with the right to take up space and bloom,
Every word you struggled to make heard and clear,
Was never wasted — someone needed it here,
Your worth was never hiding in what you achieved,
It was always in the way you loved and believed,
The universe was careful when it made your soul,
Every part of you was always already whole

[Outro]
So rest now in the knowing you are held and seen,
In every in-between, in every space between,
The stars that curved around you on the night you came,
They haven't stopped their turning — they still know your name