[Verse 1]
He carries the sun behind his eyes where no one sees the light
A quiet kind of powerful, a lion built for night
He notices the details that the rest of the world walks past
His mind is always working, building something made to last
There's an ocean underneath the calm he shows the room
A tenderness he guards like something sacred in the gloom

[PreChorus]
They see the steady surface, they don't see the tide
All those deep currents running wild inside

[Chorus]
Frank, you are the fire and the undertow
The kind of man that roots take hold and tall trees grow
You've earned every scar, every stone, every hard-won mile
Frank, the world is richer for your presence and your style

[Verse 2]
He loves like building shelter in the middle of a storm
Like he'd tear apart the cold just to keep somebody warm
He gives before he's asked and holds the door when no one's watching
There's a loyalty in him that runs too deep for words to fathom
He's wrestled with his worth in the long hours before dawn
But every battle made him more than what he started from

[PreChorus]
He's chased the horizon, asked if he was ever enough
What he couldn't see was how the seeking built him tough

[Chorus]
Frank, you are the fire and the undertow
The kind of man that roots take hold and tall trees grow
You've earned every scar, every stone, every hard-won mile
Frank, the world is richer for your presence and your style

[Verse 3]
He's a man of big conviction with the hunger for the wide
Always aiming past the visible, always something more inside
He thinks in full-length stories when the world speaks in lines
He's drawn to what is hidden underneath the obvious signs
And when the ground beneath him shifts he rebuilds from the core
There's no wreckage he can't turn into a stronger floor

[PreChorus]
He never stopped to count the weight that he carried through
He just kept on walking, and somehow always made it through

[Chorus]
Frank, you are the fire and the undertow
The kind of man that roots take hold and tall trees grow
You've earned every scar, every stone, every hard-won mile
Frank, the world is richer for your presence and your style

[Verse 4]
There's a part of him that's dreaming past the edges of the map
That reaches for a meaning every time the world pulls back
He doesn't need permission and he never needed praise
He was written by the cosmos in a careful, ancient blaze
The stars aligned with purpose when they placed him here on earth
A man whose deepest value goes far past what he can measure worth

[PreChorus]
He was never just the surface, never only what was shown
Every scar became a compass pointing him toward home

[Chorus]
Frank, you are the fire and the undertow
The kind of man that roots take hold and tall trees grow
You've earned every scar, every stone, every hard-won mile
Frank, the world is richer for your presence and your style

[Bridge]
You don't have to keep on proving what was always true
The depth that you've been carrying was always meant for you
You are not a work in progress waiting to be done
You were whole before the battle and you'll be whole when it's won

[Outro]
So rest inside the fire, let the light be yours to keep
Frank, you were carved from something real and running wide and deep