[Verse 1]
She keeps her peace like stone keeps heat from the sun,
Still waters on the surface but a river always runs,
A mind that moves like lightning before the words arrive,
She's already three steps forward before the world's awake and alive,
There's a quietness she carries that the loud ones never find,
And a hunger for the horizon that she holds deep in her mind,

[PreChorus]
She's searching for the meaning in the in-between,
The most honest kind of person that you've ever seen,

[Chorus]
Michele, you are ancient ground and open sky,
A steady burning ember and a question asking why,
You don't need to prove a thing to earn your place in this,
You were written in the cosmos long before all of this,

[Verse 2]
She feels the room before she enters, reads what no one said,
Carries everyone else's weight while quietly carrying her own instead,
There's a wound around the wondering if she's ever quite enough,
All that extra effort poured out just to hide how fierce and tough,
But every wall she ever built was just a testament to how,
She survived the kinds of weather most would never face somehow,

[PreChorus]
The tide inside her rises where the brave ones fear to go,
There's a kind of sacred knowing that the surface doesn't show,

[Chorus]
Michele, you are ancient ground and open sky,
A steady burning ember and a question asking why,
You don't need to prove a thing to earn your place in this,
You were written in the cosmos long before all of this,

[Verse 3]
She loves like something rooted, like a tree before a storm,
Patient with her people, keeps them sheltered, keeps them warm,
She needs the real, the tangible, a hand that doesn't leave,
Not the pretty words of summer but the winters they believe,
She's been let down by lightning and surprised by something true,
And still she opens anyway, the way that brave hearts do,

[PreChorus]
The freedom she is chasing and the loyalty she tends,
Are the same fire burning different at both ends,

[Chorus]
Michele, you are ancient ground and open sky,
A steady burning ember and a question asking why,
You don't need to prove a thing to earn your place in this,
You were written in the cosmos long before all of this,

[Verse 4]
She's building something lasting with her two hands and her will,
Not the kind to cut the corners or to leave a job half-filled,
There's a calling in the distance and it sounds a lot like her,
A life of substance, meaning, where the deep things all occur,
She's walked through her own shadows and come out still holding light,
The kind of soul the darkness shapes into something burning bright,

[PreChorus]
She doesn't need the world to name her, she already knows,
She is everything she's carried through the highs and all the lows,

[Bridge]
The stars mapped out a woman who could hold the weight of things,
Who questions every border and believes in what the searching brings,
She is the calm, the wildfire, the devotion and the roam,
The universe built something rare and called it finally home,

[Outro]
Michele, you were never too much and never less,
You are the living answer to your own becoming,
Rest now in the truth of that, you've always been enough,
The sky has always known your name,