[Verse 1]
There's a current running deep beneath the still
A mind that reads the room before the room stands still
You carry what you've learned inside a locked chest
You show the world your fire, you guard the rest
The surface says composed, the depths say more
You've always known there's something worth fighting for

[PreChorus]
They see the calm, they don't see the tide
All those fathoms you've learned to hide

[Chorus]
Mercedes, you were written by the dark and the light
A soul that moved through the deep to find the height
You don't need to prove the fire in your bones
Every scar you carry is a key to your throne

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient, vast, and wide
You weigh every word before you let it out inside
You've built your walls from moments others missed
From love you gave too fully, chances kissed
But that heart that gives before it's even asked
Is the rarest kind of courage ever tasked

[PreChorus]
You search for peace in every room you fill
But the peace you need was always with you still

[Chorus]
Mercedes, you were written by the dark and the light
A soul that moved through the deep to find the height
You don't need to prove the fire in your bones
Every scar you carry is a key to your throne

[Verse 3]
There's a road that calls to you through wider skies
A purpose built from everything you've sacrificed
You think in galaxies but speak in careful lines
You heal the ones around you between the signs
The world is waiting on the truth that you've become
You've already done the work — now let yourself be done

[PreChorus]
The compass in your chest has always known the way
You were never lost, just learning how to stay

[Chorus]
Mercedes, you were written by the dark and the light
A soul that moved through the deep to find the height
You don't need to prove the fire in your bones
Every scar you carry is a key to your throne

[Bridge]
You are not too much, you were never too small
The ones who felt the earthquake loved the rise and the fall
Let yourself be held by what you cannot see
The cosmos wrote you carefully and called you free

[Outro]
Rest now in the knowing, rest now in the true
Everything the universe designed — it designed it into you