[Verse 1]
She weighs every word before it leaves her tongue,
Feels the weight of worlds in everything she's done,
There's a diplomat's heart beneath the quiet face,
And an ocean running deep beneath her grace,
She sees through people gently, reads the room with ease,
But the storm behind her stillness, no one ever sees

[PreChorus]
She's carried more than anyone has asked her to hold,
And turned it all to something worth more than gold

[Chorus]
Paula, you are written in the ancient light,
Every scar you carry made your armor bright,
You are more than what you've given, more than what they've known,
Paula, you were never, never meant to walk alone

[Verse 2]
She loves like something fearless, loves like something true,
All or nothing, soul first, nothing halfway through,
She's built a life from beauty, turned the broken into art,
There's a quiet kind of power living in that heart,
She gives before she's asked and holds the ones who fall,
But she learned to hide the parts of her that needed it most of all

[PreChorus]
She's wrestled with the dark so long she made it kin,
And every time she's broken, something new begins

[Chorus]
Paula, you are written in the ancient light,
Every scar you carry made your armor bright,
You are more than what you've given, more than what they've known,
Paula, you were never, never meant to walk alone

[Verse 3]
There's a mind that moves through layers like a diver deep below,
She trusts what can't be spoken, knows what others need to know,
She spent years in service, pouring out her steady flame,
Never asking to be noticed, never once demanding claim,
The world saw the composure, never saw the private tide,
All those brilliant, burning currents she was keeping locked inside

[PreChorus]
But the fire in her doesn't need permission to glow,
She was built for more than people watching come and go

[Chorus]
Paula, you are written in the ancient light,
Every scar you carry made your armor bright,
You are more than what you've given, more than what they've known,
Paula, you were never, never meant to walk alone

[Verse 4]
She's learning that her worth was never something to be earned,
That the lessons carved in hardship were a language to be learned,
There's a horizon she was born for, wide and open and clear,
And everything she's carried was preparing her for here,
The cosmos drew her carefully with ink that doesn't fade,
And every life she's touched has been a testament she's made

[PreChorus]
She doesn't need to prove it, doesn't need to explain,
She is every season, she is sunshine after rain

[Chorus]
Paula, you are written in the ancient light,
Every scar you carry made your armor bright,
You are more than what you've given, more than what they've known,
Paula, you were never, never meant to walk alone

[Bridge]
Let the balance come back to you now,
Let the giving and the getting both be allowed,
You've been the anchor, you've been the flame,
Now rest in the truth that you'll always remain

[Outro]
The stars mapped every part of you with care,
You are held, you are seen, you are already there,
Paula, you are enough — you always were,
Everything that's coming blooms from what you are