[Verse 1]
Built from bedrock, older than the hills you've climbed,
A mind like architecture, every thought designed,
You carry generations in the marrow of your name,
But the world sees the structure and mistakes it for the flame,
They see the steady surface, not the ocean underneath,
Not the roots that hold the mountain, not the story in the teeth

[PreChorus]
You've given more than anyone could count or measure right,
Still searching through the silence for the proof you've earned your light

[Chorus]
Patrice, you are more than what you've built or what you've borne,
More than every room you held together, every storm,
The cosmos wrote you carefully in ink that never fades,
Patrice, you were always whole, even in the hardest days

[Verse 2]
They see the graceful surface and they never guess the cost,
How you've swallowed disappointment just to help someone else across,
There's a lion in your chest that wants the room to know its name,
But you learned to keep it quiet just in case they couldn't claim,
The kind of love you carry comes before you're even asked,
A heart that lights the lantern long before the dark has passed

[PreChorus]
You've worn the weight of legacy like armor for so long,
But what felt like something heavy was the making of your song

[Chorus]
Patrice, you are more than what you've built or what you've borne,
More than every room you held together, every storm,
The cosmos wrote you carefully in ink that never fades,
Patrice, you were always whole, even in the hardest days

[Verse 3]
You love like something ancient, like a fire lit at sea,
Wild enough to wander but too true to leave,
You need the ones who match your depth, who meet you eye to eye,
Not the ones who love the sunlight but go missing in the tide,
You've walked through enough darkness that you know the texture well,
Every wound became a compass, every scar a story to tell

[PreChorus]
The world you built for others has a place for you inside,
There's a door you haven't opened with your name written in light

[Chorus]
Patrice, you are more than what you've built or what you've borne,
More than every room you held together, every storm,
The cosmos wrote you carefully in ink that never fades,
Patrice, you were always whole, even in the hardest days

[Verse 4]
The healing that is coming doesn't ask you to be new,
It only asks you turn the same fierce care back toward you,
You've been the steady anchor in the lives of those you love,
Now the current's shifting gently and it's lifting you above,
What you carry isn't burden — it's a blueprint carved in time,
And every step you've taken was already by design

[PreChorus]
You don't have to prove your worth to every room you walk inside,
You were chosen by the heavens long before the very first sunrise

[Chorus]
Patrice, you are more than what you've built or what you've borne,
More than every room you held together, every storm,
The cosmos wrote you carefully in ink that never fades,
Patrice, you were always whole, even in the hardest days

[Bridge]
Let the mountain hold you now the way you've held the rest,
You have always been the answer searching for the question in your chest,
Every tide returns to shore and every winter breaks to spring,
You are guided, you are held, you are everything

[Outro]
The stars that shaped you haven't finished speaking yet,
And all the love you've given — the universe won't forget,
Patrice, rest easy now, you've always been enough,
You were written in the light of something ancient and unbroken and loved