[Verse 1]
There's a fire behind the grace, a tide beneath the calm,
A voice that holds the room without raising an alarm,
You give before you're asked, you serve before you rest,
You've poured yourself in quietly, saving nothing for the chest,
The world sees all the warmth, they don't see what it costs,
All the tending done in silence, all the battles fought and crossed,

[PreChorus]
But every hand you've held in the dark became a light,
And everything you carried made you ready for tonight,

[Chorus]
Sherri, you were written in the deep and in the gold,
A story that was older than the one you've ever told,
You don't have to hold it all to prove that you belong,
You were always the whole sky, not just the light at dawn,

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient, tender, rooted, true,
A quiet kind of refuge that the lucky wander through,
You read the room before you speak, you weigh before you act,
That careful heart of yours is not a weakness, it's a fact,
You've longed for a connection where no armor has to stay,
Where the version that you hide at night is finally safe to say,

[PreChorus]
And even when you second-guessed the love you had to give,
That love was always worth the risk, it was the way to live,

[Chorus]
Sherri, you were written in the deep and in the gold,
A story that was older than the one you've ever told,
You don't have to hold it all to prove that you belong,
You were always the whole sky, not just the light at dawn,

[Verse 3]
You've walked between the dream and what the daylight asks of you,
Between the truth you carry inward and the self the world knew,
There's a wilderness of wisdom in the questions that remain,
Every time you searched for meaning through the mystery and pain,
You thought that made you restless, but it made you wide and deep,
The kind of rare that doesn't fade, the kind the cosmos keeps,

[PreChorus]
The path was never lost when it was winding in the dark,
The searching was the compass pointing straight back to your heart,

[Chorus]
Sherri, you were written in the deep and in the gold,
A story that was older than the one you've ever told,
You don't have to hold it all to prove that you belong,
You were always the whole sky, not just the light at dawn,

[Bridge]
You don't need to earn the room you fill, you've always had the right,
The universe carved out your name before you saw the light,
Every scar became a doorway, every doubt became a door,
You were never less than enough, you were always something more,

[Outro]
So rest inside your wholeness now, let all the proving go,
Sherri, you were always gold, it just took time to know,