[Verse 1]
Still waters on the surface, ocean underneath,
A mind that holds its treasure like a root holds to the earth beneath,
They see the calm, they never catch the tide,
All the worlds you carry quietly inside,
You feel everything — you've just learned how to hold it,
The depth of you is real and don't you dare withhold it

[PreChorus]
You've been building worth from nothing, brick by careful brick,
But the ground you're standing on was always yours to pick

[Chorus]
Ashley, you were written in a language all your own,
Every scar a constellation, every wound a stepping stone,
You love like something ancient, like the first light after rain,
Ashley, you were never lost — you're finding your way home again

[Verse 2]
You dive into the dark and come back holding gold,
You've faced the kind of quiet grief that only brave ones know,
Your heart moves first before the world can catch its breath,
You build and burn and rise again — there's no such thing as less,
When recognition never came you kept on shining through,
The applause you've always needed has been living inside you

[PreChorus]
You don't belong inside the boxes they keep making,
What they call too much is really the world in the making

[Chorus]
Ashley, you were written in a language all your own,
Every scar a constellation, every wound a stepping stone,
You love like something ancient, like the first light after rain,
Ashley, you were never lost — you're finding your way home again

[Bridge]
The cosmos didn't draft you for a small and quiet life,
You're the seeker and the sanctuary, the calm inside the knife,
There's a pilgrimage in every question that you've ever asked,
The answer's in the journey, and you're worthy of the path

[Outro]
You are rooted, you are restless, you are both and that's enough,
You were never too much, love — you were always just enough