[Verse 1]
There's a fire behind the smile that nobody gets to hold,
A mind that moves like water, never doing what it's told,
She lights the room without a thought, then wonders if she should,
Keeps half of her in shadow 'cause she's never understood
That the version they can't name yet is the truest thing she owns,
A lion and a question mark who built herself a home

[PreChorus]
She carries what the quiet ones would leave behind,
A heart that loves like shelter and a quick and restless mind

[Chorus]
Emily, the stars were drawn around you carefully,
You're not too much, you're not too loud, you're exactly what you need to be,
The world keeps what you carry long after you have gone,
Emily, you were written in a language all your own

[Verse 2]
She tends to feel it all at once before she finds the words,
The warmth she wraps around the ones whose pain has gone unheard,
She'd sooner build a safe place than let anyone be cold,
But somewhere deep she's learning all that giving takes a toll,
And every time she held her tongue to keep the peace instead,
That silence wasn't weakness — it was love she gave instead

[PreChorus]
The wounds she keeps from showing are the ones that made her wise,
There's an ocean underneath the calm she shows behind her eyes

[Chorus]
Emily, the stars were drawn around you carefully,
You're not too much, you're not too loud, you're exactly what you need to be,
The world keeps what you carry long after you have gone,
Emily, you were written in a language all your own

[Verse 3]
She dreams of something lasting, something she can build and trust,
A legacy of meaning from the wreckage and the dust,
She moves with more intention than the ones who rush the race,
And everything she's waited for is already in place,
She doesn't need permission from the voices in the crowd,
The path was hers before she even learned to say it loud

[PreChorus]
She's learning how to need the love she so freely gives,
And the life she was born for is the one she's starting to live

[Chorus]
Emily, the stars were drawn around you carefully,
You're not too much, you're not too loud, you're exactly what you need to be,
The world keeps what you carry long after you have gone,
Emily, you were written in a language all your own

[Bridge]
You don't have to earn the light, you were born already bright,
Every scar became a doorway, every doubt became your sight,
The cosmos wrote you slowly, every line placed with care,
You are held by something ancient — you are answered by the air

[Outro]
Emily, rest now, you have always been enough,
The universe keeps building you from everything you've loved,
You were written in a language, and the language is your own