[Verse 1]
She keeps a quiet tide beneath a steady face,
A mind like open water, thoughts that shift and race,
She'll hold the ones she loves like a house holds warmth in winter,
But nobody asks her how she's doing 'til it splinters,
There's a fire burning low where no one thinks to look,
She's half an open window and half a closed-up book

[PreChorus]
She carries more than anyone has ever asked to see,
And she calls that ordinary, but Lord, that's a gift to me

[Chorus]
Oh, Shannon, she's a river running wide and running true,
Built like something ancient, like the June sky breaking through,
Shannon, she don't need the world to say she's earned her place,
She was written in the cosmos with a kind of stubborn grace

[Verse 2]
She loves so deep it scares her, like the sea fears its own pull,
She gives before she's given to, and still she keeps her hull,
She'll build a home from nothing just to see her people bloom,
Then stand alone at midnight in a too-familiar room,
But every wall she's ever built has been a kind of faith,
That something worth protecting waits for her inside that space

[PreChorus]
She's learning that the roots don't lie beneath the weight of stone,
And everything she carried made her strong enough to hold her own

[Chorus]
Oh, Shannon, she's a river running wide and running true,
Built like something ancient, like the June sky breaking through,
Shannon, she don't need the world to say she's earned her place,
She was written in the cosmos with a kind of stubborn grace

[Bridge]
She don't have to earn the love that's always been her own,
Every scar just marked the ground where something stronger grew and shone,
The stars don't apologize for how they burn so bright,
And neither should she ever have to justify her light

[Outro]
Oh, she is held by something deep and wide,
Shannon, you were always enough inside