[Verse 1]
There's an ocean underneath the quiet you wear,
A current running deeper than the world knows is there,
You feel everything first before the words find their place,
You've carried so much tenderness without taking up space,
The ones who need a lantern somehow find you in the dark,
You've always been the shelter, not the one who shows the scar

[PreChorus]
But the tide that holds the whole world up needs somewhere it can fall,
The light behind the scenes still counts, it counts the most of all

[Chorus]
Lori, you were written in a language soft and true,
The kind of grace that holds the world was always inside you,
You don't have to earn the love that's been yours since the start,
The cosmos built a universe and put it in your heart

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient, wide, and reaching to be free,
You want a soul to meet you where the deep water can breathe,
And sometimes you've bent yourself to keep the peace intact,
Given everything you had and never asked for it back,
But that hunger for a balanced world, for beauty that is real,
That's not a wound, that's wisdom with a will of iron and steel

[PreChorus]
The fire in you moves before the world can catch its breath,
You've lived so full and burning that you've known yourself through depth

[Chorus]
Lori, you were written in a language soft and true,
The kind of grace that holds the world was always inside you,
You don't have to earn the love that's been yours since the start,
The cosmos built a universe and put it in your heart

[Verse 3]
They see the calm, they miss the storm that shaped the hands you own,
The way you sense what no one's said, the truth beneath the tone,
You've dreamed in metaphors and light when words refused to come,
You've served without a headline and you've loved without the drum,
Now something in the sky is turning, opening a door,
A new moon rising over water, calling you toward more

[PreChorus]
What you've been too afraid to name deserves to be set free,
Your roots are deep enough to hold whatever you might be

[Chorus]
Lori, you were written in a language soft and true,
The kind of grace that holds the world was always inside you,
You don't have to earn the love that's been yours since the start,
The cosmos built a universe and put it in your heart

[Bridge]
You are not the helping hand that's left when everything is done,
You are not the afterthought, you are the rising sun,
Every quiet act of mercy was a signature in light,
You were always the awakening, not just the long, long night

[Outro]
The stars don't make mistakes, they mapped you carefully and well,
You are finally becoming what you always were to tell,
Rest now in the knowing, you are held, you are enough,
The universe has always known exactly who you are