[Verse 1]
There's a stillness in the way she moves through the day
A quiet kind of knowing she can't give away
She builds her world like stone on stone, careful and true
While oceans run beneath the surface no one else sees through
The light she carries burns inside where no one looks
A whole life lived between the lines of unread books

[PreChorus]
She feels everything twice, holds the tide behind her eyes
A heart that wide was never meant to be a small disguise

[Chorus]
Chris, you are the deep and the steady ground
The kind of soul that holds the world without a sound
You don't need the stage to prove what you're worth
You were written in the sky before you came to earth

[Verse 2]
She loves like something ancient, like a hearthstone in the cold
Tender in the giving but afraid to be consoled
She'll carry every person home and ask for nothing back
Then wonder in the quiet why there's something that she lacks
But that reaching heart was never wrong, it was never too much
It was the realest kind of brave dressed up as gentle touch

[PreChorus]
The storms she's walked alone have carved a wisdom in her bone
Every scar became a key, every wound a stepping stone

[Chorus]
Chris, you are the deep and the steady ground
The kind of soul that holds the world without a sound
You don't need the stage to prove what you're worth
You were written in the sky before you came to earth

[Verse 3]
There's a fire in her thinking that moves faster than she'll say
A mind that never rests because it sees too many ways
She's worn the weight of family like it's sewn into her skin
And fought the battles no one knows that rage and roar within
But she's been bending without breaking for a long, long time
And the depth she's built in darkness is an almost holy kind

[PreChorus]
She doesn't need to earn the love already hers to keep
The universe laid down her roots before the world was deep

[Chorus]
Chris, you are the deep and the steady ground
The kind of soul that holds the world without a sound
You don't need the stage to prove what you're worth
You were written in the sky before you came to earth

[Bridge]
Let the stars that shaped you speak what you've been slow to hear
Everything you are is whole, everything you are is clear
You were never too much and you were never not enough
You were always, only, exactly this — and exactly was enough

[Outro]
Rest now in the knowing, let the long proving go
Chris, you are the light the quiet rivers know
The cosmos wrote you carefully, and it wrote you well
You are more than all the stories you were too afraid to tell