[Verse 1]
There's a mountain in your chest that no one thinks to climb,
A discipline so deep it runs like rivers under time,
You carry what would crumble lesser people to the ground,
And still you show up steady, barely making a sound,
They see the structure, never see the dreaming underneath,
The visionary hiding in the armor and the grief,

[PreChorus]
But there's an ocean pulling tides behind those careful eyes,
A whole universe of feeling you have learned to disguise,

[Chorus]
You are ancient, you are tender, you are built from something real,
Mel, you don't have to earn the right to rest or feel,
Every wall you ever built was made of something true,
The cosmos wrote the world a gift the day it drafted you,

[Verse 2]
You love like someone searching for a place to finally land,
You give before you're asked and then you don't know how to stand,
There's a fire in the way you move, a flame before the word,
A mind that catches everything the room has left unheard,
You've held so many people and forgotten your own name,
But every ounce of care you've poured has not been lost in vain,

[PreChorus]
The wounds that taught you caution are the roots beneath your ground,
The quiet that you carry is the most profound of sounds,

[Chorus]
You are ancient, you are tender, you are built from something real,
Mel, you don't have to earn the right to rest or feel,
Every wall you ever built was made of something true,
The cosmos wrote the world a gift the day it drafted you,

[Verse 3]
There's a calling in the current of the life you haven't named,
A hunger for what's sacred, not for trophies or for fame,
You've stood inside the wreckage and rebuilt it from the seams,
A soul who touches heaven through the most ordinary things,
The world won't see the battles that you fought behind the veil,
But everything you've carried is becoming your own trail,

[PreChorus]
You were never meant to disappear behind the work you do,
Your light was made to find you, and it's finally breaking through,

[Chorus]
You are ancient, you are tender, you are built from something real,
Mel, you don't have to earn the right to rest or feel,
Every wall you ever built was made of something true,
The cosmos wrote the world a gift the day it drafted you,

[Bridge]
Let the tide come in, you don't have to hold it back,
Every scar you carry marks a trail you can't untrack,
You are rooted in the earth and reaching toward the light,
You were always whole, even when you couldn't see it right,

[Outro]
You are guided, you are grounded, you are finally enough,
Mel, the stars have always known you're made of stronger stuff,
Rest now in the knowing that the universe holds true,
There was never anything to prove — it always pointed back to you,