[Verse 1]
There's a still water running beneath the ground,
A mind like a current that barely makes a sound,
You read every room before you walk inside,
You carry whole oceans and none of it's dried,
The world sees the surface, the calm, the control,
But no one sees the tides that move under your soul

[PreChorus]
You've held so much in silence, called it being strong,
But the depth inside you, darling, was never wrong

[Chorus]
You are the river that refuses to be tamed,
A fire in still water, a truth that can't be named,
The kind of rare that costs a life to understand,
You were written by the cosmos with a careful hand

[Verse 2]
You've loved like a question you were afraid to ask,
Laid beauty on the table, kept the hurt behind glass,
A poet in your thinking, graceful in your word,
You've swallowed down your own truth so others could be heard,
But every wall you've built around the tenderness inside
Was just proof of how fiercely and completely you can love

[PreChorus]
The armor you've been wearing was never who you are,
Beneath it lives a light that outshines every scar

[Chorus]
You are the river that refuses to be tamed,
A fire in still water, a truth that can't be named,
The kind of rare that costs a life to understand,
You were written by the cosmos with a careful hand

[Verse 3]
You've always sensed the thing behind the thing,
The wound beneath the word, the note beneath the string,
You've carried borrowed sorrow like it was your own to keep,
Gone looking for the meaning in the places dark and deep,
But every descent you made and every hard-won climb
Has been turning you to something more luminous with time

[PreChorus]
The world you've dreamed of building lives inside of you,
Everything you're reaching for is already true

[Chorus]
You are the river that refuses to be tamed,
A fire in still water, a truth that can't be named,
The kind of rare that costs a life to understand,
You were written by the cosmos with a careful hand

[Bridge]
You don't have to keep on proving what you've always been,
The ones worth knowing see it all and love what they have seen,
Let the searching rest a moment, let the hunger breathe,
You are whole in every season, you are all you need

[Outro]
So let the river run, let the deep run free,
You've always been exactly who you were meant to be,
The stars don't waste their light on ordinary ground,
And you, you are the rarest thing the universe has found