[Verse 1]
She moves like the first day of spring through a door,
A mind made of lightning, a heart keeping score,
She'll speak before thinking and think before sleep,
The fire runs shallow but the current runs deep,
She's built something solid from every hard year,
What looks like impulsiveness is how she steers clear

[PreChorus]
They only see the surface and call it enough,
But she's learning the difference between soft and tough

[Chorus]
Paula, you were written in fire and tide,
The compass was always spinning inside,
You are more than the armor, more than the race,
You are already whole in this very place

[Verse 2]
She loves like an ocean that no one can name,
Sees beauty in people still covered in shame,
She'll give without asking and dream without end,
Then wonder why something inside has to bend,
The home she's been building lives deep in her chest,
Where the roots of the sacred have finally come to rest

[PreChorus]
The world asked her to prove it and she always showed up,
But what she was carrying was never too much

[Chorus]
Paula, you were written in fire and tide,
The compass was always spinning inside,
You are more than the armor, more than the race,
You are already whole in this very place

[Verse 3]
She's stood at the edge where the darkness gets loud,
And came back with lanterns she hid in the crowd,
The wounds that she carried became how she knew
Which rooms needed light and which people needed truth,
She's cracked open twice but she never broke clean,
She became something rarer than gold in between

[PreChorus]
The universe didn't scatter her stars by mistake,
Every crack was the shape that the light had to take

[Chorus]
Paula, you were written in fire and tide,
The compass was always spinning inside,
You are more than the armor, more than the race,
You are already whole in this very place

[Bridge]
Let the searching be sacred, let the restless find peace,
Let the proving and the running finally cease,
The sky mapped her carefully, ink that won't fade,
She was never behind — she was always being made

[Outro]
The fire still burns but it no longer demands,
She holds all her pieces in her own two hands,
She is guided, she is rooted, she is enough,
Paula — she always has been