[Verse 1]
She keeps the calm like stones keep rivers still,
A quiet strength that bends but never breaks its will,
She's rooted deep in everything she's ever known,
In the blood and the bearing of the place she calls home,
Her mind moves like lightning caught inside a jar,
Too electric for the small rooms, built for something far

[PreChorus]
She holds the world like it might fall apart,
But nobody sees the weather in her heart

[Chorus]
Sherry, you were written in the oldest light,
A careful hand that guides through the longest night,
Every tender thing you carry, every wall you've made,
Is just love learning how to stay, love learning how to stay

[Verse 2]
She reads between the lines before the words are there,
A mind that finds the thread no one else knows to care,
She loves like building shelter out of steady ground,
She gives before she's asked and makes no lasting sound,
But deep beneath the order and the measured days,
There's an ocean running wide she's never let them trace

[PreChorus]
She aches for something real that doesn't need to be earned,
For a heart that stays and loves her back in return

[Chorus]
Sherry, you were written in the oldest light,
A careful hand that guides through the longest night,
Every tender thing you carry, every wall you've made,
Is just love learning how to stay, love learning how to stay

[Verse 3]
She's spent a lifetime reaching toward a version of whole,
Measuring grace against some unmarked standard no one told,
But the wound she carries gently is the wound that heals,
The ones she's loved the deepest taught her how to feel,
She doesn't need the spotlight, but she needs to know,
That what she brings to every room is worth the letting go

[PreChorus]
The cosmos wrote her carefully with ink that doesn't fade,
And everything she is was earned, and everything will stay

[Chorus]
Sherry, you were written in the oldest light,
A careful hand that guides through the longest night,
Every tender thing you carry, every wall you've made,
Is just love learning how to stay, love learning how to stay

[Bridge]
She doesn't need to fix it all or hold it all in line,
The imperfection in the grain is what makes it divine,
She is enough, she always was, she always will remain,
A quiet kind of holy, like the sun behind the rain

[Outro]
The stars don't write mistakes, they write in deep design,
And everything she is was meant, and everything is fine