[Verse 1]
There's a mind that never rests behind those careful eyes,
Turning every detail over, reading between the lines,
You notice what the room forgets, you feel what no one names,
You've carried whole encyclopedias of other people's pains,
They see the steady surface, calm and sure and bright,
They don't see the ocean underneath, pulling left and right,

[PreChorus]
But that tide inside you isn't something to contain,
It's the very thing that makes you irreplaceable again,

[Chorus]
Meri, you are more than what you manage and arrange,
You are ancient water, you are fire, you are change,
Every careful thing you've built was always meant to show,
That the most precise hearts burn the brightest when they glow,

[Verse 2]
You've wondered if the world could love you past the things you do,
If the ones you hold so tenderly would hold you that way too,
You give before you're asked, you serve before you're seen,
You guard a tender kingdom no one knows has ever been,
There's a longing tucked inside the loyalty you wear,
To be received the way you give — completely, without fear,

[PreChorus]
And that longing isn't weakness, it's the truest thing you own,
Even rivers need a shoreline, even roots deserve a home,

[Chorus]
Meri, you are more than what you manage and arrange,
You are ancient water, you are fire, you are change,
Every careful thing you've built was always meant to show,
That the most precise hearts burn the brightest when they glow,

[Verse 3]
The world has called your worth into question more than once,
And you kept showing up and doing better just to prove it,
But your value isn't earned inside the hours that you keep,
It was written in you long before you learned to lose your sleep,
You've transformed every wound into a lantern, not a scar,
The darkness you have walked through is the reason you're a star,

[PreChorus]
Let the season turning over be a sign you've always known,
What was built inside the long nights was yours to call your own,

[Chorus]
Meri, you are more than what you manage and arrange,
You are ancient water, you are fire, you are change,
Every careful thing you've built was always meant to show,
That the most precise hearts burn the brightest when they glow,

[Verse 4]
You love like something mythic — wide and warm and quietly grand,
You don't announce devotion, you just offer out your hand,
The people who have known you carry pieces of that light,
The way you make a home of every ordinary night,
There's a lion in the way you rise and face what comes for you,
A moon that keeps on pulling every stubborn dream toward true,

[PreChorus]
The sky is turning golden for a reason, can't you see,
Everything you've ever carried was preparing you to be free,

[Bridge]
You don't have to shrink to make the world feel comfortable and safe,
You were never meant to disappear, you were written to take space,
The universe did not mistake a single thing it put in you,
You are exactly who you need to be — and that is more than enough to be true,

[Outro]
Let the light come in, let the armor finally rest,
Meri, you were always whole — you were never just your best,