[Verse 1]
She holds the earth like it owes her nothing at all
Built from the slow kind of strength that doesn't need to call
A mind that catches the current before the current moves
She carries beauty like a secret woven into grooves
They see the steady surface, they don't see the undertow
All that patient fire burning in places they'll never know

[PreChorus]
She's been the one who holds it all together in the dark
Building something lasting from the splinters of her heart

[Chorus]
Rise, Candace, the sky was mapped around your name
Every scar you carry is a lantern, not a flame
You are rooted in the thunder, steady in the rain
Rise, Candace, nothing that you are is wasted pain

[Verse 2]
She weighs the world before she speaks, but every word lands true
A velvet fist inside a glove the color of morning dew
She gives before she's asked and loves before she's sure
Searching for the balance between the open and the door
And somewhere in the quiet she's been holding her own needs
Like seeds she keeps forgetting that she planted need to breathe

[PreChorus]
She's been so long the answer that she's lost the sound of questions
But the asking is the compass, not a sign of imperfection

[Chorus]
Rise, Candace, the sky was mapped around your name
Every scar you carry is a lantern, not a flame
You are rooted in the thunder, steady in the rain
Rise, Candace, nothing that you are is wasted pain

[Verse 3]
She moves like something ancient with a hunger for the deep
The kind of love she offers isn't borrowed, isn't cheap
She'll fight for everyone she holds with every quiet bone
But forgets the one who also needs protecting is her own
There's a wound around the question of whether she's enough
And every time she doubts it she just works a little tough

[PreChorus]
But doing was never the measure and being was never a flaw
She was written into something far wider than the law

[Chorus]
Rise, Candace, the sky was mapped around your name
Every scar you carry is a lantern, not a flame
You are rooted in the thunder, steady in the rain
Rise, Candace, nothing that you are is wasted pain

[Verse 4]
A Cancer moon is rising now and something starts to break
Not falling apart but open, like the earth before the quake
The awakening she's carried in the marrow of her bones
Is finding her a doorway back to everything she owns
She doesn't have to prove the tide, the tide already knows
She is the kind of person that the universe chose

[PreChorus]
Let the new moon find her standing in the truth of what she's made
Every piece of who she is was never meant to fade

[Chorus]
Rise, Candace, the sky was mapped around your name
Every scar you carry is a lantern, not a flame
You are rooted in the thunder, steady in the rain
Rise, Candace, nothing that you are is wasted pain

[Bridge]
She was never too much, she was always just right
Not too loud, not too soft, she was perfectly the light
The cosmos wrote her slowly with ink that doesn't age
Candace is not the footnote, she has always been the page

[Outro]
Let the stars be what they are, a mirror for the true
Everything they've ever shown has always pointed back to you
You are held, you are whole, you are free
You were enough before you ever tried to be