[Verse 1]
She moves through the world like she's already sure,
A fire that decides before the doubt gets a word in first,
But underneath the certainty, there's earth — deep and still,
A need for something solid, something constant, something real,
She holds the ones she loves like roots hold ground in rain,
And every wall she's built was just a door she hadn't named

[PreChorus]
They see the grace, they don't see the tide,
All that ocean running quietly inside

[Chorus]
Joyce, you are the flame and the steady ground,
The kind of soul that makes a whole world turn around,
You love like something ancient, wide, and true,
Joyce, the stars wrote carefully when they wrote you

[Verse 2]
She speaks in feeling more than words sometimes,
Her mind arrives at truth through some unmarked sign,
A dreamer who still shows up, does the work, refines,
She gives before she's asked and calls it only kind,
There's a wound around her voice she's carried quietly long,
But every word she swallowed has been growing into song

[PreChorus]
She's tried to make herself make sense to everyone,
When the only voice that matters is the one she comes from

[Chorus]
Joyce, you are the flame and the steady ground,
The kind of soul that makes a whole world turn around,
You love like something ancient, wide, and true,
Joyce, the stars wrote carefully when they wrote you

[Verse 3]
She pours herself into the ones who share her home,
Rebuilding what was broken so they never feel alone,
There's a passion she keeps measured, disciplined, and low,
But it burns through everything she touches as it grows,
She's learned that love means presence, not perfection on display,
And her devotion is the kind that doesn't fade or fray

[PreChorus]
She's torn between expanding and holding safe the line,
But both of those together is what makes her light divine

[Chorus]
Joyce, you are the flame and the steady ground,
The kind of soul that makes a whole world turn around,
You love like something ancient, wide, and true,
Joyce, the stars wrote carefully when they wrote you

[Verse 4]
She's still becoming who she always was beneath,
Learning that her needs deserve the same love that she breathes,
The world she moves through hasn't always made her feel enough,
But every scar became the proof of how she's made of tough and soft,
She's a compass and a lantern and a hand that doesn't let go,
Born with more inside her than she may ever fully know

[PreChorus]
She doesn't need to earn her place or prove what she's worth,
She came here with a purpose older than her days on earth

[Bridge]
The universe has held her name since long before she knew,
Every stumble was a chapter in the story leading true,
She doesn't have to carry it alone into the unknown,
She is guided, she is witnessed, she has always been home

[Outro]
Rest now in the truth of everything you are,
The cosmos wrote you carefully and nothing left a scar,
You are held, you are enough, you are the light they're drawn toward,
Joyce, you were always everything the world was waiting for