[Verse 1]
She moves through the world like a fire with roots in the ground,
A horizon-chaser carrying tides beneath the sound,
She laughs loud and easy, lets her truth land where it may,
But there's a whole hidden ocean she keeps quietly at bay,
She'll guard everyone she loves like a door no storm gets through,
And forget that she deserves someone guarding her too

[PreChorus]
They see the warmth, they don't see the weight she carries alone,
They see the light, they don't see the depth below the bone

[Chorus]
This is the sky that made you, Cheri, wide and burning free,
The moon wrote you in water, the fire wrote you in dignity,
You are not too much, you are not too little, you are exactly right,
You are the archer and the ocean and the compass in the night

[Verse 2]
Her mind moves in layers where others only see the surface plain,
She reads what hides between the words, she feels what words can't name,
She's taken quiet hits and never once explained the bruise,
Built loyalty like architecture from the things she almost lost to lose,
She thinks in riddles, speaks in truth, and listens like a prayer,
And still wonders if the words she holds are even worth the air

[PreChorus]
They see the calm, they don't see the tides that roll beneath,
They see the smile, they don't see the things she holds in her teeth

[Chorus]
This is the sky that made you, Cheri, wide and burning free,
The moon wrote you in water, the fire wrote you in dignity,
You are not too much, you are not too little, you are exactly right,
You are the archer and the ocean and the compass in the night

[Verse 3]
She's learning now to let the past move backward like a tide,
To let the things that turned her back become the things that guide,
The world confused her quietness for distance, mistook care for doubt,
But every wall she ever built had a window left throughout,
She's not recovering from who she was, she's returning to her name,
And everything the sky assigned her soul will never be the same

[PreChorus]
The stars reversed so she could find what she left behind,
A voice, a knowing, the oldest truth she carries in her mind

[Chorus]
This is the sky that made you, Cheri, wide and burning free,
The moon wrote you in water, the fire wrote you in dignity,
You are not too much, you are not too little, you are exactly right,
You are the archer and the ocean and the compass in the night

[Bridge]
The cosmos didn't carve you carefully just to leave you lost,
Every depth you've ever swum through was the journey, not the cost,
You were written in the long way round, the patient and the bold,
You were always worth the story, every page of it, untold

[Outro]
Rest now in your own becoming, you have always been enough,
The sky still holds your name, and it was written out of love