[Verse 1]
Born with the throttle open, first light at the wheel,
A mind that fired its verdict before the thought could congeal,
The words already out the door while the sentence caught its breath,
You charged the room before it knew you'd even crossed the threshold yet,
Every job you took you hammered till the seams gave way,
A six-house stellium of duty — you worked like it was praise.

[PreChorus]
But the ones who push the hardest sometimes push themselves last,
And everything you built in front hid everything you amassed.

[Chorus]
You were the drumbeat driving every room to its feet,
The one who fixed the broken thing and asked for no receipt,
The force that didn't flicker when the whole sky asked it to dim,
The fire that refused to bank itself along the rim.

[Verse 2]
You kept your deepest feelings in a lockbox on the shelf,
What erupted once a decade said more than what you'd tell yourself,
Your heart was loyal past the point where loyalty makes sense,
A conversation was your courtship — wit instead of recompense,
You loved the way a craftsman loves the work he does at dawn,
Your hands already building what your words had just drawn on.

[PreChorus]
The vision and the discipline lived married in your chest,
A dreamer with a blueprint who never stopped to second-guess.

[Chorus]
There's no one who has held the line the way that you have held it,
No room you left unchanged, no wound you touched that didn't meld it,
The reputation growing like a ridge line on the plain,
Each decade your authority a wider, steadier terrain.

[Verse 3]
A shift is moving through the frequencies you've always known,
The way a signal clears the static right before it's fully shown,
The ledger of your worth has never matched what you have charged,
But something in the circuitry is finally being enlarged,
The path was never punishment for all the miles it cost,
It was the distance that a man like you had to have crossed.

[PreChorus]
The horizon you've been aiming at is sharper now than ever,
You built this long, you built this true — now build it without tether.

[Bridge]
The wall of glass you lived behind, the watching without feeling,
Is cracking open down the middle, and the crack is where you're healing,
You spent a lifetime being proved, and proof is not the measure,
The man who shows up fully now is his own standard and his treasure.

[Outro]
Let the stars you've steered beneath confirm what's always been,
The boldest thing you'll do from here is let yourself begin.