[Verse 1]
She carried the weight of a house that was falling apart,
Watched the man she called father fade slow from the start,
She learned all the rhythms of loss and of letting things go,
Kept the vigil alone in the places nobody else chose to go,
She never once flinched, never asked to be thanked or relieved,
Just showed up like the mountain she was — and she stayed, and she breathed

[PreChorus]
But underneath all that stone there's a tide running deep,
An ocean of feeling she's fought for the right just to keep

[Chorus]
Hold on, Lori, the ground hasn't left from below,
You were built for this weight but you don't have to carry it alone,
Every room that you held, every hand in the dark that you led,
That love doesn't vanish — it lives in the life that you fed

[Verse 2]
She sees what the world tries to bury and keep out of sight,
She walks into sorrow and somehow still carries the light,
Her care isn't weakness, it's ancient — it runs to the bone,
The kind that doesn't announce itself, just quietly holds,
She gave without counting the cost or the toll it would take,
A devotion so steady it looked like it couldn't break

[PreChorus]
But the cracks in the armor are places where something gets through,
And the moon knows the tide — and the tide, it still answers to you

[Chorus]
Hold on, Lori, the ground hasn't left from below,
You were built for this weight but you don't have to carry it alone,
Every room that you held, every hand in the dark that you led,
That love doesn't vanish — it lives in the life that you fed

[Verse 3]
She wonders if anyone sees her the way that she sees,
If the silence she lives in means no one remembers her needs,
The ones she expected to show up have walked the wrong way,
And she's learning how loneliness echoes at the end of the day,
But the cosmos don't write you for nothing, don't shape you in vain,
Every scar on this woman is proof she can weather the rain

[PreChorus]
There are stars that burned out long ago still lighting the sky,
And the love she has given still flickers in someone's dark night

[Chorus]
Hold on, Lori, the ground hasn't left from below,
You were built for this weight but you don't have to carry it alone,
Every room that you held, every hand in the dark that you led,
That love doesn't vanish — it lives in the life that you fed

[Verse 4]
The mountain inside her was never meant to just stand still,
It was made to be seen from a distance, a landmark, a hill,
Let the grief do its work, let it soften the edges with time,
There is something still rooted in her that is reaching for light,
She is more than the role that she filled when the room needed her most,
She is all that she dreamed before duty became her whole coast

[PreChorus]
And healing is coming like warmth through the glass of a door,
She was never forgotten — just needed to know she was more

[Chorus]
Hold on, Lori, the ground hasn't left from below,
You were built for this weight but you don't have to carry it alone,
Every room that you held, every hand in the dark that you led,
That love doesn't vanish — it lives in the life that you fed

[Bridge]
The universe doesn't lose track of the ones who give all,
Every quiet act of grace gets recorded, recalled,
You are rooted in something that outlasts the long winter nights,
You are seen, you are known, you are held in a permanent light

[Outro]
So rest now, Lori, let somebody carry you home,
You have never been nothing — you have never been alone,
The love that you planted will find its way back to your door,
You are enough, you have always been enough, and still more