[Verse 1]
There's a mountain in the way you hold your ground,
A quiet kind of gravity that pulls the right ones down,
You read the room before you speak, you feel before you see,
You carry depths that no one knows — an uncharted inner sea,
They see the steady surface, they don't see the tide,
All those currents running fast and true and deep inside

[PreChorus]
You've spent so long being strong for everyone but you,
There's a whole world in your chest that's asking to break through

[Chorus]
You are the stone and the river, Nicola, both at once,
The one who builds the fire and the one who tends the months,
Every scar you've carried quietly has been your quiet crown,
You were never falling apart — you were learning how to ground

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient, like a vow that has no end,
Not with roses and with ribbons but with showing up again,
You take your time with trust but once you give it, it is true,
The kind of love that doesn't waver when the winter cuts through,
You've wondered if your heart's too much or somehow not enough,
But darling, that's the question asked by everyone who loves

[PreChorus]
The ones who feel so deeply tend to doubt what they deserve,
But every single thing you give is more than you observe

[Chorus]
You are the stone and the river, Nicola, both at once,
The one who builds the fire and the one who tends the months,
Every scar you've carried quietly has been your quiet crown,
You were never falling apart — you were learning how to ground

[Verse 3]
There's a new moon pulling gently at the water in your bones,
Something waking in the places you have never let be known,
A door is cracking open in the middle of your night,
Not a warning and not thunder — just a slow returning light,
You were written by the cosmos with a careful, knowing hand,
And the path has always held you even when you couldn't stand

[PreChorus]
The world that you've imagined and the life you're standing in,
Are closer than the distance that has always lived between

[Chorus]
You are the stone and the river, Nicola, both at once,
The one who builds the fire and the one who tends the months,
Every scar you've carried quietly has been your quiet crown,
You were never falling apart — you were learning how to ground

[Bridge]
You don't need to prove a single thing to earn your place,
You were enough before you ever had to run the race,
The stars that mapped your coming did not make a mistake,
You are everything the dawn needs when it starts to break

[Outro]
So rest inside the knowing that you're held by something true,
The universe has always, always had its eyes on you,
Nicola, come home to yourself — you've arrived