[Verse 1]
He's got a mind that wanders past the edge of town,
A quiet kind of thunder underneath the calm and the ground,
He sees the world different, thinks a few years ahead,
Carries more inside him than he's ever stopped to have said,
Got a heart built solid, like a fence post in stone,
Loves deepest in the silence, in the work, and the home,

[PreChorus]
They see the steady surface, they don't see the tide,
All those rivers running wide and deep inside,

[Chorus]
He is rooted in the lightning, grounded in the flame,
Built of restless wonder wearing patience like a name,
Every road he's walked has led him back to what is true,
The stars were laid out careful, and they all point straight to you,

[Verse 2]
He don't wear his feelings like a flag on his sleeve,
But he'd give his last dollar to a man in need,
He's been the kind of steady that the world leans hard against,
Carried weight like weather, never asking recompense,
Maybe nobody told him what his showing up has meant,
But every tree that holds its ground was built for what was spent,

[PreChorus]
He's worn the work like armor, kept the softness hid,
But the depth of what he carries tells you who he is,

[Chorus]
He is rooted in the lightning, grounded in the flame,
Built of restless wonder wearing patience like a name,
Every road he's walked has led him back to what is true,
The stars were laid out careful, and they all point straight to you,

[Verse 3]
There's an Aquarius fire running through his bones,
A Gemini moon that never quite feels at home,
Somewhere between the dreamer and the man who gets things done,
He's been breaking quiet cycles since before he could run,
The wounds he carried quietly became the ground he laid,
And every generation lives inside the peace he made,

[PreChorus]
He don't need the spotlight and he don't need the stage,
The legacy he's building is written page by page,

[Chorus]
He is rooted in the lightning, grounded in the flame,
Built of restless wonder wearing patience like a name,
Every road he's walked has led him back to what is true,
The stars were laid out careful, and they all point straight to you,

[Bridge]
He has always been enough, even when he couldn't see,
Every scar became the soil for someone else's tree,
The universe don't stumble when it's writing out a soul,
And every line it wrote in him was meant to make him whole,

[Outro]
So here's to the man who held the line when no one watched,
Who loved without conditions and who gave more than he got,
The road still stretches open underneath a wide blue sky,
And everything he ever was is worthy of this life,