[Verse 1]
There's a fire in the way you walk into a room
A quiet kind of gravity, a lantern in the gloom
You carry what is broken like it weighs almost nothing
But the weight of all that holding is the proof of something
You think in deep water, you speak in careful light
A mind that won't leave anything unturned at night

[PreChorus]
They see the warmth, they don't see the tide
All those fathoms you keep locked inside

[Chorus]
Cheryl, you were written in a language vast and rare
A leonine heart with a Virgo's steady care
Every crack you've carried holds the shape of who you are
You were never lost, you were always the star

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient, deliberate and true
You notice all the small things that nobody else sees through
You'd give before they ask you, rearrange yourself to fit
Then wonder in the silence why you're always tired from it
That giving heart was never meant to hollow you out bare
You deserve the same devotion that you scatter everywhere

[PreChorus]
The ones you hold the closest feel it to the bone
But you've carried too much beauty all alone

[Chorus]
Cheryl, you were written in a language vast and rare
A leonine heart with a Virgo's steady care
Every crack you've carried holds the shape of who you are
You were never lost, you were always the star

[Verse 3]
There's a wildness at your edges that you've learned to keep contained
Like a current always moving underneath the surface, unnamed
You've stood inside the fire and emerged without a sound
You've rebuilt what the seasons took and planted firmer ground
The world needs what you carry in the marrow of your bones
This is not the story of someone who stands alone

[PreChorus]
The cosmos wrote you carefully, with ink that never fades
You are more than all the silence and the dues you've paid

[Chorus]
Cheryl, you were written in a language vast and rare
A leonine heart with a Virgo's steady care
Every crack you've carried holds the shape of who you are
You were never lost, you were always the star

[Bridge]
You don't have to be perfect to be whole
You don't have to earn the right to your own soul
The stars that mapped your nature knew exactly what they made
You are guided, you are held, you are not afraid

[Outro]
Rest now in the knowing you are more than enough
Every part of you was made of the right kind of stuff