[Verse 1]
There's a fire in you that moves before the smoke clears
A boldness that leaps while the world shifts gears
But underneath all that forward-facing flame
There's a quiet need for ground that always stays the same
You build and you charge and you carry it all
Then wonder why you're exhausted standing tall

[PreChorus]
They see the surface, they don't see the tide
All those fathoms running deep inside

[Chorus]
You are ancient, you are new, you are both at once
A river rushing forward with the patience of the months
You don't have to choose between the fire and the stone
Every part of what you are has always led you home

[Verse 2]
You love like someone handing over everything they've kept
Every room you enter holds the things you've wept
You've pulled back from the door when it cost too much before
Stood still behind the armor, wondering what it's for
But the way you give before you're asked, the way you stay
That's not a wound — that's a lighthouse built from clay

[PreChorus]
They see the composure, they don't see the cost
How much you've carried, how little you've lost

[Chorus]
You are ancient, you are new, you are both at once
A river rushing forward with the patience of the months
You don't have to choose between the fire and the stone
Every part of what you are has always led you home

[Verse 3]
There's a voice in you that's waited to be truly heard
Not explained, not justified — just one clean word
You've felt the gap between what's said and what lands right
Like calling out across a valley every night
But your silence holds a frequency the right ones feel
And what you couldn't say out loud, time will reveal

[PreChorus]
The sky above you didn't write you by mistake
You were mapped with care before your first heartbreak

[Chorus]
You are ancient, you are new, you are both at once
A river rushing forward with the patience of the months
You don't have to choose between the fire and the stone
Every part of what you are has always led you home

[Bridge]
The shadow and the light were forged inside the same bone
The deepest roots hold trees that never fall alone
What broke you open wasn't breaking you apart
It was clearing out the space for what was always in your heart

[Outro]
You are held by what you cannot see
Enough, exactly as you've come to be
The cosmos wrote you carefully, with ink that never fades
You were never lost — just learning all your ways