[Verse 1]
There's a stillness on the surface where the water runs the deepest
A mind that maps the dark before the light has even reached it
You read a room before you've crossed the threshold of the door
Carrying the weight of everyone who came before
They see the calm, they'll never see the tide
All the oceans you've been holding just to keep the peace inside

[PreChorus]
But everything you've swallowed, every fire that you've fed
Has been building something sacred in the chambers of your chest

[Chorus]
Elizabeth, you were made from more than they could ever name
A coal-black sky that learned to burn and love the dark the same
Elizabeth, every scar has been a map and not a wall
The universe wrote you carefully — it did not write you small

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient, like a covenant, a vow
Like you've memorized the ending and you're choosing to love now
You give before they ask you, set the table, hold the door
Then wonder in the quiet why you're always wanting more
The push and pull of needing and of being needed too
Is not a flaw — it's proof of how completely that you feel things through

[PreChorus]
And every time you've reached across the distance for someone
You've taught yourself the meaning of a love that can't be undone

[Chorus]
Elizabeth, you were made from more than they could ever name
A coal-black sky that learned to burn and love the dark the same
Elizabeth, every scar has been a map and not a wall
The universe wrote you carefully — it did not follow protocol

[Verse 3]
There's a wound around the words you've tried a thousand times to say
The ones that came out sideways or just quietly decayed
You've felt the ache of speaking and being met with empty air
Of explaining the whole galaxy to someone who wasn't there
But your voice was never broken — it was just too wide to hold
In the mouths of those who couldn't bear the depth of what you told

[PreChorus]
The day you stopped performing for the ones who wouldn't hear
Was the day your truest language finally became clear

[Chorus]
Elizabeth, you were made from more than they could ever name
A coal-black sky that learned to burn and love the dark the same
Elizabeth, every scar has been a map and not a wall
The universe wrote you carefully — it did not write you small

[Verse 4]
You've been learning that precision is a kindness, not a cage
That the fire in your foundations doesn't have to be a rage
That dreaming wide and building slow are not at war inside you
That the roots go just as deep as every horizon that calls to you
There's a compass in your marrow pointing somewhere worth the climb
You were never running late — you've just been keeping your own time

[PreChorus]
The world is waiting on the version you've been too afraid to trust
She's been there all along — she's made of iron and of stardust

[Bridge]
You don't need to earn the room that you were born to occupy
Every gift you've been half-giving was already justified
The ones who've loved you deepest knew before you could confess
That being fully who you are is more than being more, it's enough

[Outro]
The stars don't rush and neither must you, Elizabeth
You are held in something older than your doubt
Every door you've stood before has always opened from within
You were the light you kept on looking for throughout