[Verse 1]
There's a mind inside you sharp enough to cut through stone,
That catalogs the world and still feels so alone,
You notice every fracture in the plaster on the wall,
While everyone else just walks right past the hall,
They see the calm exterior, the measured steady grace,
They don't see the current running underneath your face,

[PreChorus]
But the depth in you is not a weight to carry,
It's the ocean that was meant to be extraordinary,

[Chorus]
Karen, you were written by a careful hand,
Every contradiction part of something grand,
You don't have to fix yourself to finally stand,
Karen, you were always more than they'd understand,

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient, like a tide that won't recede,
You give before you're asked and bury your own need,
There's a fierceness underneath the quiet you project,
A devotion so complete it leaves the ones you love wrecked,
Not from damage, from the weight of being truly known,
From the kind of love that doesn't let you be alone,

[PreChorus]
You've held the door for everyone who's passed you through,
Now let somebody hold the door for you,

[Chorus]
Karen, you were written by a careful hand,
Every contradiction part of something grand,
You don't have to fix yourself to finally stand,
Karen, you were always more than they'd understand,

[Verse 3]
The part of you that questions if your brilliance is enough,
That replays every stumble, every moment that got rough,
That mind that never rests because it's searching for the flaw,
Is the same mind that sees beauty no one else has ever saw,
You were made to carry visions that the world has yet to meet,
Every scar a line of scripture, every loss a work complete,

[PreChorus]
The stars did not arrange themselves by accident for you,
This sky was set in motion just to see what you'd become,

[Chorus]
Karen, you were written by a careful hand,
Every contradiction part of something grand,
You don't have to fix yourself to finally stand,
Karen, you were always more than they'd understand,

[Bridge]
You are not the sum of all the times you almost broke,
You are every word of truth you swallowed and then spoke,
The universe mapped you before you knew your name,
And nothing you have lived has ever dimmed that flame,

[Outro]
Rest now in the knowing you were always this,
Whole before the world could tell you what you missed,
You are held, you are guided, you are real, you are enough,
Karen, you were never anything but love,