[Verse 1]
There's a current running under everything you show,
A depth that pulls like tides that only midnight rivers know,
You read the room before you speak, you feel before you see,
A mind that moves in metaphors, a soul that thinks in dreams,
You carry worlds inside your chest that no one's thought to ask,
The most essential part of you lives just behind the mask

[PreChorus]
You've learned to build from solid ground while oceans rise inside,
The mountain and the waterfall existing side by side

[Chorus]
Heather, you are ancient, you are new,
The cosmos wrote you carefully in every shade of you,
Every wall you've built is also proof of what you've survived,
Heather, you were always meant to be exactly this alive

[Verse 2]
You love with all the patience of something slow and sure,
Not with noise or pageantry but something that endures,
You give before they ask you, then you wonder if it's seen,
You hold the ones you care for to a standard still and clean,
But underneath the composure lives a hunger to be known,
Not just needed, truly wanted — not just useful, truly home

[PreChorus]
The ache of being misread is a wound you've learned to carry,
What others call reserved in you is really a sanctuary

[Chorus]
Heather, you are ancient, you are new,
The cosmos wrote you carefully in every shade of you,
Every wall you've built is also proof of what you've survived,
Heather, you were always meant to be exactly this alive

[Verse 3]
You've questioned if your presence leaves a mark that matters here,
You've poured yourself into the work just hoping it was clear,
But the doubt that drives you deeper is the same that makes you wise,
There's a kind of grace that only comes from someone who has tried,
You think in feeling, speak in truth, and sense what can't be said,
The imagination other people lost — you kept it fed

[PreChorus]
The world rewards the loudest voice and you've felt what that cost,
But the quiet ones who feel this much were never truly lost

[Chorus]
Heather, you are ancient, you are new,
The cosmos wrote you carefully in every shade of you,
Every wall you've built is also proof of what you've survived,
Heather, you were always meant to be exactly this alive

[Verse 4]
There's a vision in you wider than the life you've lived so far,
A pull toward something truer, like a compass to a star,
You've wrestled with the structures that have told you who to be,
And every time you broke from them you found a little free,
The deepest things you carry aren't a burden, they're a light,
You were written for a purpose that is only yours to find

[PreChorus]
You don't have to earn your worth by what you finish or provide,
You were whole before the proving and you're whole on every side

[Chorus]
Heather, you are ancient, you are new,
The cosmos wrote you carefully in every shade of you,
Every wall you've built is also proof of what you've survived,
Heather, you were always meant to be exactly this alive

[Bridge]
You are not too much, you are not too small,
You are the depth behind the surface of it all,
The universe has always had your name,
And nothing you have weathered was in vain

[Outro]
Let the tides inside you rise without apology,
You are held by something older than what anyone can see,
Every scar became a story, every storm became the sea,
And you, exactly as you are, is more than enough to be