[Verse 1]
She measures every word before it leaves her mouth
Weighing both sides like the scales she carries out
They see the calm, they don't see the tide inside
All those currents running fathoms deep and wide
She's the one who holds the room without a sound
A quiet force that keeps the whole world going round

[PreChorus]
But who is holding her when she forgets to ask
Who sees the girl behind the perfectly kept mask

[Chorus]
Laura, you were written in a careful hand
Every contradiction part of something grand
Laura, both the stillness and the undertow
You are more than anyone will ever know

[Verse 2]
She thinks in layers, hears what no one's saying out loud
Reads the room like a novel, reads the faces in the crowd
Her heart loves like it's making a covenant with time
Fierce devotion wrapped in something close to the sublime
She's given pieces of herself to people who stayed small
And kept her deepest ocean hidden under it all

[PreChorus]
The ones who got the surface thought they had the whole
But she was always more than what she chose to show

[Chorus]
Laura, you were written in a careful hand
Every contradiction part of something grand
Laura, both the stillness and the undertow
You are more than anyone will ever know

[Verse 3]
She's carried aches she never gave a name or a place
Old roots that twisted somewhere underneath her grace
She built her sense of safety with the only hands she had
Turned the complicated into something not so bad
There's a wound that taught her how to recognize a door
And a strength she keeps discovering she never knew before

[PreChorus]
The house you build inside you is the one that holds
And everything you've survived has made you gold

[Chorus]
Laura, you were written in a careful hand
Every contradiction part of something grand
Laura, both the stillness and the undertow
You are more than anyone will ever know

[Verse 4]
She doesn't need to finish every question to be right
Doesn't need to reach the shore to trust the light
The world expands wherever she decides to look
Every path she's wandered was a page worth the book
There's a life that needs exactly what she carries in her chest
Not the polished version — all of her, not just the best

[PreChorus]
She doesn't have to earn the space that she already fills
She only has to let herself be loved through all of it

[Chorus]
Laura, you were written in a careful hand
Every contradiction part of something grand
Laura, both the stillness and the undertow
You are more than anyone will ever know

[Bridge]
The stars arranged themselves the night she came to be
Not by accident but with deliberate poetry
She is held by something older than her doubt
A compass always pointing its way out

[Outro]
So let her rest, let her bloom, let her stay
She was always, always enough anyway