[Verse 1]
There's a fire in you that moves before the world can speak,
A current running deep beneath a surface calm and sleek,
You carry every burden like it's written in your bones,
You've learned to build a fortress and to tend it all alone,
But the light that lives inside you wasn't meant to be contained,
Every wall you ever built was just your wisdom being trained,

[PreChorus]
They see the composed, they don't see the tide,
All those oceans you've been carrying inside,

[Chorus]
Rise up, Erica, you are more than they can see,
You were written by the cosmos, born to move and to be free,
Rise up, Erica, let the depths become your crown,
You were never meant for smallness, never meant to be held down,

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient, like a prayer that has no end,
You see the good in broken things and find a way to mend,
But you've handed pieces of yourself to hands that couldn't hold,
And mistaken their forgetting for some failure of your soul,
That tenderness you carry is not weakness, it's a gift,
It's the kind of love that finds the fallen and gives lift,

[PreChorus]
You've searched for worth in places that were never yours to earn,
But the ground beneath your feet has always known what you are worth,

[Chorus]
Rise up, Erica, you are more than they can see,
You were written by the cosmos, born to move and to be free,
Rise up, Erica, let the depths become your crown,
You were never meant for smallness, never meant to be held down,

[Verse 3]
Your mind moves like a river through the spaces no one checks,
Reading what is hidden in the silence and the text,
You sense the undercurrents that the rest of them walk past,
You've always known what lingers and what wasn't built to last,
That knowing is a lantern in the rooms that have no light,
You were given it for purpose, you were given it for life,

[PreChorus]
You don't have to prove the fire, it already burns,
The world will feel its warmth in time, when it finally turns,

[Chorus]
Rise up, Erica, you are more than they can see,
You were written by the cosmos, born to move and to be free,
Rise up, Erica, let the depths become your crown,
You were never meant for smallness, never meant to be held down,

[Verse 4]
You've walked through transformation more than once without a map,
You've faced what lived in shadow and you didn't look back,
There's a calling in your marrow that no detour can erase,
Something rooted in forever, something glory can't replace,
The universe has kept your name among the sacred things it knows,
You are held in something greater than the eye can see, Erica,

[PreChorus]
Stop shrinking for the spaces that were never built for you,
The God who carved you carefully has always seen you through,

[Chorus]
Rise up, Erica, you are more than they can see,
You were written by the cosmos, born to move and to be free,
Rise up, Erica, let the depths become your crown,
You were never meant for smallness, never meant to be held down,

[Bridge]
You are enough in the unfinished, enough in the unknown,
Every scar became a scripture, every wound a stepping stone,
Grace has always been your portion, even when you couldn't feel,
You are seen, you are beloved, and the calling on you is real,

[Outro]
Rest now in the truth of who you've always been,
Erica, you are held, you are whole, you are redeemed,
The stars have always known your name,
And you will never walk through this world the same,