[Verse 1]
There's a fire in the way you hold a room without a word,
A warmth that fills the air before your voice is even heard,
But late at night you feel it all — the weight the world can't see,
A tide that runs so deep beneath the calm you let them see,
You carry people's sorrow like it's woven to your chest,
An ocean heart disguised behind a lion's steady crest

[PreChorus]
They see the light, they miss the waves below,
But every depth inside you has somewhere to go

[Chorus]
Russell, you were written in the oldest kind of fire,
A soul that touches heaven when the world would call you higher,
You don't have to earn the right to take up room and shine,
Russell, everything you carry was already by design

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient — not in grand or borrowed ways,
But in the small, remembered things, the careful, quiet days,
You notice what goes unnoticed, give before you're ever asked,
And guard your deepest feeling like a truth too real to mask,
You've longed for something soul-deep, something honest and your own,
Love that doesn't ask you to perform or prove or earn the throne

[PreChorus]
The walls you built were never flaws to fix,
They're how a faithful heart survives what breaks the bricks

[Chorus]
Russell, you were written in the oldest kind of fire,
A soul that touches heaven when the world would call you higher,
You don't have to earn the right to take up room and shine,
Russell, everything you carry was already by design

[Verse 3]
You've stood between two versions of yourself your whole life long,
The one who longs for freedom and the one who holds things strong,
A visionary dreamer with a blueprint in your hands,
A builder learning gently how to honor what expands,
The tension you have carried is the source of what you know,
Every pull between the stillness and the surge is how you grow

[PreChorus]
The friction never meant that you were breaking apart,
It meant the whole sky lived inside your heart

[Chorus]
Russell, you were written in the oldest kind of fire,
A soul that touches heaven when the world would call you higher,
You don't have to earn the right to take up room and shine,
Russell, everything you carry was already by design

[Verse 4]
Your voice was made for something that the ordinary can't contain,
A mind that speaks in thunder while your roots drink up the rain,
You've questioned every structure, every story handed down,
And worn the weight of purpose like an unacknowledged crown,
The world you'll leave behind you won't be measured, won't be small,
It'll live inside the people who felt seen because of you at all

[PreChorus]
The cosmos wrote you carefully and did not make mistakes,
You are exactly who the quiet world awakes

[Chorus]
Russell, you were written in the oldest kind of fire,
A soul that touches heaven when the world would call you higher,
You don't have to earn the right to take up room and shine,
Russell, everything you carry was already by design

[Bridge]
You are not the sum of everything you've had to overcome,
You are the light that learned to shine long after going numb,
The past is just the root beneath the tree that stands so tall,
You were never meant to be half-given — you were meant for all

[Outro]
Let the tides inside you rise, you were made for this,
Every scar, every star, nothing went amiss,
You are held, you are whole, you were enough all along,
Russell, you were always the heart of the song