[Verse 1]
She carries the weight like it's woven in bone,
Built every room she has ever called home,
Two jobs, two hands, and a will made of stone,
Learning to water the seeds she has sown,
The dark had a name and she knew it too well,
But she walked through the fire and came out of the spell

[PreChorus]
Something ancient in her refused to stay down,
She was always a kingdom, not just a town

[Chorus]
Rise, Shannon, rise like the tide coming in,
Every scar on your soul is where light gets in,
You are more than the battles that lived on your skin,
Shannon, this is where your story begins

[Verse 2]
She feels every room before she walks through the door,
Picks up what's unspoken and carries it more,
She loves like a current that runs wide and deep,
Gives more than she borrows and more than she keeps,
Afraid that her worth was a story they'd tell,
But the love she poured outward is hers just as well

[PreChorus]
Something in her is learning to turn the cup right,
Filling her own before pouring the night

[Chorus]
Rise, Shannon, rise like the tide coming in,
Every scar on your soul is where light gets in,
You are more than the battles that lived on your skin,
Shannon, this is where your story begins

[Verse 3]
The mind in her moves like a river in flood,
Processing beauty and sorrow and mud,
She thinks in the language of symbol and dream,
Nothing is ever quite as still as it seems,
She questioned the truth and she questioned the ground,
But the ground was inside her the whole time around

[PreChorus]
The stars wrote her carefully, knew what she'd face,
A soul built for depth and designed for this place

[Chorus]
Rise, Shannon, rise like the tide coming in,
Every scar on your soul is where light gets in,
You are more than the battles that lived on your skin,
Shannon, this is where your story begins

[Verse 4]
A Cancer moon calling her home to herself,
She's been taking her heart off the back of the shelf,
What looked like destruction was clearing the way,
The version of her that arrives here today,
No longer a wound that is waiting to mend,
But the beginning a life built to bloom and transcend

[PreChorus]
The universe held her through every descent,
And every hard year was exactly what's meant

[Chorus]
Rise, Shannon, rise like the tide coming in,
Every scar on your soul is where light gets in,
You are more than the battles that lived on your skin,
Shannon, this is where your story begins

[Bridge]
She is not what was lost, she is what was found,
She is roots reaching deep through unsteady ground,
Pain became purpose and silence became song,
She was never too broken — she always belonged

[Outro]
The new moon is rising, and so is she,
Turning her face to what she's about to be,
Shannon, the light you were looking for —
It was always yours, it has always been yours