[Verse 1]
There's a fire in the way he moves before the world wakes up,
A boldness in his bones that says he'll never quite give up,
But underneath the charge, beneath the forward-facing flame,
There's an ocean running quiet, and it knows him by his name,
He feels what others miss — the undercurrents, the unsaid,
A tidal pull of memory from the living and the dead

[PreChorus]
They see the confidence, they don't see the tide,
All that depth he's carrying on the inside

[Chorus]
Anthony, you are more than what the surface shows,
You're the fire and the water and the way a river knows,
You don't have to earn the right to simply be the light,
Anthony, you were written in the stars tonight

[Verse 2]
He loves like something ancient — slow and sure and true,
Through presence and through patience, through the things that he will do,
A quiet act of loyalty, a meal, a hand that stays,
He builds his love in layers, not in grand or fleeting ways,
But he's kept so much inside him, swallowed tides behind his eyes,
Like the keeper of a lighthouse, always watching other skies

[PreChorus]
They feel the warmth he carries and mistake it for ease,
But he's held so much in silence, still and steady as the trees

[Chorus]
Anthony, you are more than what the surface shows,
You're the fire and the water and the way a river knows,
You don't have to earn the right to simply be the light,
Anthony, you were written in the stars tonight

[Verse 3]
He's got a mind that moves like weather — dreaming, shifting, wide,
That arrives at truth through feeling long before the facts are tried,
And yes, he's sometimes wrestled with the version he should be,
Pulled between the open road and need for sanctuary,
Between the one who wanders and the one who tends the home —
Both are him, both true, and neither has to walk alone

[PreChorus]
The tension in his nature isn't fracture, it's a gift,
Every contradiction is the current, not the rift

[Chorus]
Anthony, you are more than what the surface shows,
You're the fire and the water and the way a river knows,
You don't have to earn the right to simply be the light,
Anthony, you were written in the stars tonight

[Verse 4]
He's carried quiet burdens with a dignity so rare,
The kind that doesn't ask for help but still shows up and cares,
The kind that heals a room without a word of what it costs,
That counts itself as steady even when it feels most lost,
But that resilience is not a debt the world owes him to see —
It's proof of every battle that became a part of his story

[PreChorus]
He doesn't have to hold it all, he doesn't have to prove,
The world already needs the light that only he can move

[Chorus]
Anthony, you are more than what the surface shows,
You're the fire and the water and the way a river knows,
You don't have to earn the right to simply be the light,
Anthony, you were written in the stars tonight

[Bridge]
The cosmos drew him carefully, with ink that doesn't fade,
Every depth, every longing, every choice that he has made,
There's a compass pointing forward and it lives inside his chest,
Anthony, he's always been enough — he's always been his best

[Outro]
The fire still burns, the tide still calls,
And he is held through it all,
Anthony, the sky still knows your name