[Verse 1]
Still waters on the surface, a storm beneath the ground,
A presence built of gravity, a soul that pulls things down,
The calm they see is only half the story that you hold,
There's tides that move in silence, there's a depth that can't be told,
You carry more than anyone has thought to ask about,
A world entire lives inside where no one's looking out,

[PreChorus]
The mirror only shows the face, not the ocean underneath,
But everything you've swallowed whole has made you what you breathe,

[Chorus]
You are the root and the rising flame,
The quiet force that nothing can tame,
Built from the break, remade from the fall,
You were written for more than you've settled for,

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient, like a shore that holds the sea,
You give before you're asked to, you protect before you flee,
But somewhere in the giving, you forget to keep a part,
There's a home you've always wanted and it starts inside your heart,
You've searched in every doorway for the belonging that you need,
Not knowing you're the shelter, not knowing you're the seed,

[PreChorus]
The wound you've carried longest is the one that holds your light,
What you thought was weight to bear was keeping you upright,

[Chorus]
You are the root and the rising flame,
The quiet force that nothing can tame,
Built from the break, remade from the fall,
You were written for more than you've settled for,

[Verse 3]
Your mind moves like a wildfire before the smoke arrives,
A thousand different angles and a thousand different lives,
You question every meaning and you question every door,
Not because you doubt yourself but because you know there's more,
The restlessness you carry is a compass, not a flaw,
That hunger for the truth of things is the finest thing you are,

[PreChorus]
You've stood at the edge of who you were and chosen to become,
That kind of transformation takes a courage known by some,

[Chorus]
You are the root and the rising flame,
The quiet force that nothing can tame,
Built from the break, remade from the fall,
You were written for more than you've settled for,

[Verse 4]
The stars were not careless when they mapped your shape in the sky,
They gave you depth and shadow and they gave you wings to fly,
They built you from the tension between freedom and the ground,
Between the one who wanders and the one who must be found,
You don't have to choose between the mystery and the day,
You were made to be both answers and the questions on the way,

[PreChorus]
Let the world receive the weight of what you've always been,
You are not too much, you never were, you're everything,

[Chorus]
You are the root and the rising flame,
The quiet force that nothing can tame,
Built from the break, remade from the fall,
You were written for more than you've settled for,

[Bridge]
The universe held its breath for you and then let go,
Carved your name in something older than the things you know,
Every scar became a story, every doubt a door,
You were never who you feared — you've always been much more,

[Outro]
So rest inside this knowing like the earth that holds the rain,
You are whole, you are enough, and you will rise again,
The cosmos wrote you carefully, with ink that never fades,
And everything you carry now is yours to walk through days,