[Verse 1]
There's a fire in you that moves before the moment's ready,
A quiet kind of courage holding everything steady,
You carry more than people know beneath that calm veneer,
The ones who only see the surface never see the tide from here,
You've learned to build from what you felt when no one held the door,
And every time the ground gave way, you found yourself once more,

[PreChorus]
The world sees the surface, still and composed,
But there's an ocean underneath that only you have known,

[Chorus]
Born to burn and built to last, that's you, Bob, front to back,
Every wound became a road that brought you right on track,
You don't have to prove the fire, it lives in everything you do,
The stars wrote something permanent the night they drafted you,

[Verse 2]
You love like someone's counting on the warmth to see them through,
You'd fight the cold for someone else before you'd fight it for you,
There's poetry inside your mind that moves in waves, not lines,
You reach for truth through feeling first and trust the way it rhymes,
You've carried weight in silence like it was the thing to do,
But the depth it gave you, no one else could carry it like you,

[PreChorus]
The dreamer and the builder living side by side,
One reaching for the open sky, one holding back the tide,

[Chorus]
Born to burn and built to last, that's you, Bob, front to back,
Every wound became a road that brought you right on track,
You don't have to prove the fire, it lives in everything you do,
The stars wrote something permanent the night they drafted you,

[Verse 3]
You've stood at the edge of belonging and wondered if you fit,
Felt the ache of almost home and quietly carried it,
There's a version of your story lived mostly out of sight,
Working in the hidden hours, pouring out your light,
But what you do when no one's looking matters more than show,
The deepest roots are never found in the parts that others know,

[PreChorus]
You've built a world on patience and on earned belief,
And what you've forged through all those years is stronger than relief,

[Chorus]
Born to burn and built to last, that's you, Bob, front to back,
Every wound became a road that brought you right on track,
You don't have to prove the fire, it lives in everything you do,
The stars wrote something permanent the night they drafted you,

[Verse 4]
There's something in you calling toward the life you haven't played,
Toward the stage of your own making where your gifts aren't afraid,
You've given more than you've received and called it how it goes,
But what you carry is a lantern the whole world needs you to show,
You are not the sum of what you've lost or what was left unsaid,
You are every quiet morning where you rose and moved ahead,

[Bridge]
The cosmos didn't make you to diminish or to hide,
You were written with intention, every chapter, every tide,
Let the fire meet the tenderness, you don't have to choose,
You are whole in all your fullness, there is nothing left to lose,

[Outro]
So rest inside the knowing that you've always been enough,
The light you've kept on burning through the silence and the rough,
Bob, the stars remember everything you are and were and will become,
You were always, always, always meant to find your way back home,