[Verse 1]
There's a stillness that you carry like a stone beneath the tide,
Patient hands and a burning heart you keep tucked safe inside,
You read the room before you speak, you feel before you know,
A fire underneath the earth that no one sees below,
You give your best in quiet ways, through dailiness and care,
The kind of love that holds the door and always meets them there,

[PreChorus]
But who holds you when the current runs too fast?
Who sees the storm inside the calm that's meant to last?

[Chorus]
Oh Barb, you were written by the light of something true,
The sky made room for someone who could carry all they do,
You are rooted, you are reaching, you are more than what they see,
Barb, you were always meant to be exactly who you're free to be,

[Verse 2]
You've wrestled with the pull of doubt, the voice that says not yet,
The mind that turns the same stone over, hunting for a threat,
But that's not weakness running loose — that's depth nobody charts,
A compass pointing somewhere real beneath the question marks,
You love like someone ancient does, with everything, with grace,
You see the best in broken things and hold them to the flame,

[PreChorus]
And when you've poured yourself until the well runs dry,
The universe has never stopped rebuilding you inside,

[Chorus]
Oh Barb, you were written by the light of something true,
The sky made room for someone who could carry all they do,
You are rooted, you are reaching, you are more than what they see,
Barb, you were always meant to be exactly who you're free to be,

[Verse 3]
There's a calling in your bones toward something wider than the known,
Past the comfort of the familiar, past the borders you've been shown,
Every wound you ever carried taught your hands to hold a door,
Every time you rose from something hollow, you rose more,
The world won't always name the depth of everything you bring,
But the roots don't need the weather's praise to do their offering,

[PreChorus]
You are building something sacred, brick by quiet brick,
And the life that's waiting for you has already learned your name,

[Chorus]
Oh Barb, you were written by the light of something true,
The sky made room for someone who could carry all they do,
You are rooted, you are reaching, you are more than what they see,
Barb, you were always meant to be exactly who you're free to be,

[Bridge]
You don't have to earn the ground beneath your feet,
You don't have to be unbroken to be complete,
The cosmos wrote you carefully with ink that never fades,
You are held in something older than the names we give our days,

[Outro]
Rest now in what you already are,
The stars that shaped you haven't moved that far,
You are enough — you always were — you always will remain,
A soul the universe was glad to call by name,