[Verse 1]
They see the surface, calm and composed and clean,
Never guessing at the ocean underneath the seam,
A mind that cuts through stone to find what others miss,
Reading every room before a word is said in it,
Built from loyalty and quiet, burning like a coal,
A depth that most will never know, a fathomless soul

[PreChorus]
But carrying that weight alone gets heavy through the years,
Every scar you hid away just proves how much you've cleared

[Chorus]
Nick, the stars wrote you carefully in ink that doesn't fade,
You are more than all the armor and the walls you've made,
You don't need to earn the right to take up all this space,
Nick, you were made for more than just keeping up the pace

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient, like a tide that won't retreat,
You give the whole of everything, no half-truths, no deceit,
But you've stood at the edge of trust and chosen not to fall,
Not because you couldn't leap — you just need it to mean it all,
That hunger for what's real, it's not a flaw you have to hide,
It's the truest thing about you burning quietly inside

[PreChorus]
You've been measuring your worth by what the outside world could see,
But the ground beneath your feet was always yours, and it was free

[Chorus]
Nick, the stars wrote you carefully in ink that doesn't fade,
You are more than all the armor and the walls you've made,
You don't need to earn the right to take up all this space,
Nick, you were made for more than just keeping up the pace

[Verse 3]
There's a compass in your chest that points toward what is true,
And a restlessness that's really just the future calling you,
You've rebuilt yourself in silence more than anyone has known,
Every room you walked through quietly, you made it feel like home,
The hunger and the stillness living side by side in you,
That's not contradiction — that's the rarest kind of truth

[PreChorus]
The universe bent its arc around the moment you arrived,
Everything you've carried here is proof that you survived

[Chorus]
Nick, the stars wrote you carefully in ink that doesn't fade,
You are more than all the armor and the walls you've made,
You don't need to earn the right to take up all this space,
Nick, you were made for more than just keeping up the pace

[Bridge]
You were always whole, not almost, not becoming, whole,
Every fire you walked through only deepened up your soul,
Let the world catch up to what the night sky always knew,
There was never anyone more ready to be you

[Outro]
The moon held your name before you learned to speak it true,
Nick, the whole of everything was already rooting for you