[Verse 1]
She carries the tide in a quiet way,
Feels everything deeply but won't always say,
She tends to the world with her both hands full,
While something inside her keeps a careful hold,
She notices cracks that nobody else sees,
And holds herself harder than anyone needs

[PreChorus]
There's an ocean beneath the surface she shows,
A current of knowing that silently flows

[Chorus]
Shirley, you were written in the water and the light,
A heart that keeps on giving through the long and tender night,
The cosmos drew you carefully with hands that understood,
You are seen, you are steady, you are deeply, wholly good

[Verse 2]
She dreams in the language of something profound,
Where reason meets feeling on hallowed ground,
She speaks and it lands like a hand on the chest,
Her words hold a fire dressed up as finesse,
She's learning that needing is not the same as weak,
That safety is something she too deserves to seek

[PreChorus]
The strength that she carries was forged in the flame,
Of loving the world without knowing her name

[Chorus]
Shirley, you were written in the water and the light,
A heart that keeps on giving through the long and tender night,
The cosmos drew you carefully with hands that understood,
You are seen, you are steady, you are deeply, wholly good

[Verse 3]
She built something solid where others would fall,
A quiet foundation beneath it all,
She's wandered through seasons of doubt and of grace,
And worn every version of her own face,
The healer who forgets she too can be healed,
The keeper of gardens she never revealed

[PreChorus]
She stood at the crossroads of duty and free,
And slowly she's learning the two can agree

[Chorus]
Shirley, you were written in the water and the light,
A heart that keeps on giving through the long and tender night,
The cosmos drew you carefully with hands that understood,
You are seen, you are steady, you are deeply, wholly good

[Bridge]
You don't have to earn what you already are,
The universe has known you since before the very start,
Let the tides that shaped you finally carry you home,
Shirley, you were never, ever doing this alone

[Outro]
The stars still hold the shape of you with care,
Every scar, every season, every prayer,
You are enough — you have always been enough