[Verse 1]
There's a fire in the way you move through the world each day,
A spark that hits the ground before your mind can say wait,
You carry your roots like a lantern in your chest,
Drawing strength from the ones you love, the ones who know you best,
But behind that open door you hold for everyone,
There's a tide that no one sees still turning toward the sun

[PreChorus]
You've been the shelter and the storm all at once,
Learning how to name the ocean you've become

[Chorus]
Paul, you are more than the weight you've learned to hold,
Written in fire and water, in courage and gold,
The cosmos carved you careful, with a purpose in your bones,
Paul, you were never, you were never lost — you were always coming home

[Verse 2]
Your mind arrives before the room has even changed the air,
A thousand threads of thought and still you notice what is there,
They see the calm and easy way you fill a conversation,
They don't see the tidal pull beneath your every translation,
You love like something ancient, like a well that doesn't dry,
A joke that hides a question and a truth you don't deny

[PreChorus]
You've handed warmth to everyone but held your own needs back,
That giving heart was never something that you lack

[Chorus]
Paul, you are more than the weight you've learned to hold,
Written in fire and water, in courage and gold,
The cosmos carved you careful, with a purpose in your bones,
Paul, you were never, you were never lost — you were always coming home

[Verse 3]
You've wrestled with the voice that said your worth must be earned,
Stood quiet at the edge of rooms where no one saw what you learned,
The doubt that used to whisper has become a kind of knowing,
Every scar you thought was shameful was just evidence of growing,
You've faced the kind of darkness that reshapes a man from clay,
And what emerged was steadier and truer than before that day

[PreChorus]
The places where you've broken are the places where you shine,
The struggle you've been carrying was the blueprint all this time

[Chorus]
Paul, you are more than the weight you've learned to hold,
Written in fire and water, in courage and gold,
The cosmos carved you careful, with a purpose in your bones,
Paul, you were never, you were never lost — you were always coming home

[Verse 4]
There's a horizon living somewhere deep inside your chest,
A restless kind of wisdom that won't settle for the rest,
You were built to cross the distance between what is and true,
To find the meaning hidden in the questions that pursue,
The world keeps what you carry even when you doubt the gift,
Every word you've ever offered was another someone's lift

[PreChorus]
You don't need to be relentless just to matter to this earth,
You were enough before you ever had to prove your worth

[Chorus]
Paul, you are more than the weight you've learned to hold,
Written in fire and water, in courage and gold,
The cosmos carved you careful, with a purpose in your bones,
Paul, you were never, you were never lost — you were always coming home

[Bridge]
The moon still keeps your secrets and the stars still know your name,
You have weathered every season and you rose from every flame,
There is nothing left to prove now, there is nothing left to earn,
You are guided, you are held, and it was always your turn

[Outro]
So rest inside this moment, let the universe confirm,
Everything that made you — it was never yours to earn,
Paul, you were written in the sky before the world began,
And every road has always led you back to who you are