[Verse 1]
He hit the ground already running, never learned to crawl,
Four things fused at the starting line — he answered every call,
The drive, the want, the warmth, the will, all packed into one skin,
So much force inside a single frame, where does the man begin?
They told him he was too much noise, too bright, too fast, too loud,
But Billy was the thunder, and the thunder owns the cloud

[PreChorus]
And somewhere in the marrow of that restless, racing chest,
A dreamer hid his poems, too afraid to speak the rest

[Chorus]
Billy, you were forged in the front of the line,
Built to break the door down, not to wait for a sign,
The speed was never reckless — it was proof you were alive,
Billy, take the wheel now, let the whole engine drive

[Verse 2]
He loved like a man who only gets one shot at it,
Walked straight into connection, heart-first, no counterfeit,
But partners came as labyrinths — demanding, pulling hard,
Each one held a mirror to the places still scarred,
The self-worth question buried in the second drawer at home,
The kind of ache that lingers even when you're not alone

[PreChorus]
He carried other people's scales and called the weight his own,
But the truest gold was always something only he had known

[Chorus]
Billy, there's a fire that no one else can name,
Every door they shut on you just fanned a bigger flame,
The ones who tried to balance you were learning from your lead,
Billy, what they called too much is everything you need

[Verse 3]
Now the sky is pulling something loose, a long-held debt released,
The full weight of an overdue accounting finds its crease,
The decade of the buildup, all the patience, all the cost,
Every dream he filed away believing it was lost —
The inner voice that wrote in symbols no one else could read
Is finally loud enough to plant that long-imagined seed

[PreChorus]
He doesn't need a verdict or a verdict from the crowd,
The man who hushed himself for years is learning to be loud

[Chorus]
Billy, let the reckoning burn the old books clean,
Step into the open, claim the stage you've always seen,
The ones who said "slow down, stay back" were never in your lane,
Billy, this is daybreak — go ahead and start again

[Bridge]
Every power struggle taught him where his edges were,
Every careful silence sharpened into something clear,
The boy who hid his best lines in the twelve o'clock dark
Is standing in the open now, and leading with the spark

[Outro]
Billy, the starting gun was always yours to fire,
Go ahead and let them see exactly how you're made —
Born to run the distance, born to raise it higher,
You were never too much, Billy — you were just delayed