[Verse 1]
She reads the room before she reads the page,
Feels the tide inside before she feels the rage,
A dreamer with a fire underneath the skin,
An ocean on the outside, a storm living within,
She moves through life like light through colored glass,
Bending into beauty everywhere she passes past,

[PreChorus]
But the ones who see the stillness never see the depth below,
And the words she never finished are the ones they'll never know,

[Chorus]
Carol, you are ancient and wide,
A whole universe turning inside,
The sky wrote your name in a language of grace,
You were always enough, always in the right place,

[Verse 2]
She's carried things in silence that would bend the tallest tree,
Worked until her hands ached just to prove that she was free,
But worth was never something she could earn with sweat and years,
It lived inside the marrow long before the doubt and fears,
She loves like it's a prayer she doesn't need to say aloud,
Deep and unconditional, too sacred for the crowd,

[PreChorus]
She's looked for meaning in the distance, in the faraway and wide,
But the compass she was searching for was always burning inside,

[Chorus]
Carol, you are ancient and wide,
A whole universe turning inside,
The sky wrote your name in a language of grace,
You were always enough, always in the right place,

[Verse 3]
There's a voice inside that's waited for the world to stop and hear,
Every word she chose so carefully, still swallowed by the fear,
But a mind that moves through metaphor and feeling into form,
Is not a mind that's broken — it's a mind that chose the storm,
The new moon opens doorways where the old light used to close,
And everything she's tended in the dark is starting to show,

[PreChorus]
The roots were always deeper than the seasons she survived,
And the world needs what she carries to be spoken and be lived,

[Chorus]
Carol, you are ancient and wide,
A whole universe turning inside,
The sky wrote your name in a language of grace,
You were always enough, always in the right place,

[Bridge]
Let the waters rise, let the searching be done,
What was hidden in the deep is finally finding the sun,
Every layer you've lived has been building this ground,
You are not lost, Carol — you were always being found,

[Outro]
The stars don't forget what they wrote in your bones,
You were never as scattered as you felt, never alone,
Rest in the knowing — the night has been long,
But the dawn always comes to where you belong,