[Verse 1]
There's a fire in the way you hold your ground,
A quiet kind of thunder without the sound,
You carry people's weight like it weighs nothing at all,
You're the one they call on when the others fall,
But behind that steady light there's a tide that pulls,
A hunger to be seen past the roles you fill.

[PreChorus]
You've been speaking into rooms that don't always hear,
Choosing your words so carefully, still afraid they'll disappear.

[Chorus]
Born to burn and built to last, that's Jay,
A lion and a still lake on the same day,
Rooted in the earth but born to break the mold,
Jay, you were written in a bolder kind of gold.

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient, wide, and true,
Grand in every gesture, loyal through and through,
But you'll wait at the door of your own heart for years,
Letting everyone in while you swallow your tears,
The way you fight for others — quiet, fierce, and clean —
That's the deepest kind of courage the world has ever seen.

[PreChorus]
There's a restlessness inside you that the world calls hard to hold,
But that's just the sound of something rare refusing to be controlled.

[Chorus]
Born to burn and built to last, that's Jay,
A lion and a still lake on the same day,
Rooted in the earth but born to break the mold,
Jay, you were written in a bolder kind of gold.

[Verse 3]
You've lived inside the question of your worth before,
Stood at the edge of enough and asked for more,
But everything you've carried, every scar and shift,
Every time you rose again — that's the gift,
The cosmos didn't draft you to play it safe and small,
You were made to move like thunder when you answer the call.

[PreChorus]
You don't have to earn the space that you already own,
Every road that broke you open led you closer to your home.

[Chorus]
Born to burn and built to last, that's Jay,
A lion and a still lake on the same day,
Rooted in the earth but born to break the mold,
Jay, you were written in a bolder kind of gold.

[Bridge]
Let the stars confirm what you've always known inside,
You were never too much — just too wide to hide,
The world needs the fire you've been learning how to trust,
Not a perfect man, just an honest one — and that's enough.

[Outro]
So stand in your own light without apology,
Jay, the universe built you deliberately,
Every piece in place, every wound a open door,
You were always worth it — you don't have to prove it anymore.