[Verse 1]
You were born with fire running quiet underneath your skin
A lion keeping watch before you ever let someone in
You see the world in layers, what's behind the words people say
And you carry what you feel like a river finding its way

[PreChorus]
There's a restlessness that rides you like the wind before the rain
An archer on the hillside with an arrow and no chain
You've been searching for the something that sits just beyond the hill
Garrity, you're getting closer, and the night is getting still

[Chorus]
So ride the open country, let the long road take you through
There's a version of the future that's already inside you
You've been reading every skyline like a story yet to tell
Garrity, you're doing better than you think, and doing well

[Verse 2]
You love with all the force of someone terrified to show it
You give and give and pull away before the other one can know it
Your hands were made for building things, your heart for holding ground
And the people that you shelter never know how safe they've found

[PreChorus]
There's a weight you've always carried sitting quiet on your chest
A feeling that you haven't proven you deserve your rest
But what you call a burden is the kind that shapes a man
Garrity, that patience in your bones is part of something grand

[Chorus]
So ride the open country, let the long road take you through
There's a version of the future that's already inside you
You've been reading every skyline like a story yet to tell
Garrity, you're doing better than you think, and doing well

[Verse 3]
You've got a mind that digs down deeper than the ones around you see
And a voice that when you trust it has a rare authority
You've walked through fire quietly and come out standing straight
There's a kind of earned wisdom in the ones who had to wait

[PreChorus]
The world kept throwing crossroads and you stood there in the wind
You took the long way round more times than where you might have been
But every road you wandered down has brought you to this place
Garrity, the long view's finally showing you its face

[Chorus]
So ride the open country, let the long road take you through
There's a version of the future that's already inside you
You've been reading every skyline like a story yet to tell
Garrity, you're doing better than you think, and doing well

[Bridge]
You don't need to have the answers or the ending figured out
You've always found your footing when you're walking through the doubt
The ones who know you deepest know there's gold behind those walls
And the life you're building quietly is the one that stands through all

[Outro]
So ride, Garrity, ride
With that fire and that quiet side by side
What you've carried and what's coming are the same
The road ahead already knows your name