[Verse 1]
She learned to read a room before she learned to read a book,
Folding herself smaller so that no one else got shook,
The oldest soul at any table, carrying what wasn't hers,
Her hands already calloused from a life of putting others first,
Five planets crowded in the house of mirrors, face to face,
She kept on pouring out for everyone and lost her place

[PreChorus]
But everything she gave away was drawn from something real,
A reservoir so deep inside it never ceased to fill

[Chorus]
Deborah, you were built from more than duty and from more than pain,
The gold inside your chest was never something you had to earn or claim,
Every door you held wide open, every hand you reached across,
That tenderness was never weakness, it was never any loss
Deborah, you are the gift

[Verse 2]
She kept the whole house standing while she slept out in the cold,
The weight of four walls settled on her shoulders at eight years old,
She stitched together other people's fraying, tattered seams,
And quietly behind her smile she folded up her dreams,
But there's a knowing that runs deeper than the roles she always played,
A stubborn, patient purpose that no obligation frayed

[PreChorus]
She built on ground that kept on shifting just to make it firm,
And every single thing she steadied taught her how to learn

[Chorus]
Deborah, you were never just the shelter everyone runs through,
There's a whole landscape living in you that nobody else can move,
Every table that you set, every night you held the line,
Forged a woman who can finally sit down and say, "This time is mine"
Deborah, you are the gift

[Verse 3]
And when she loves, she builds a harbor, patient, warm, and wide,
Not a fleeting feeling but a place where people rest inside,
She chose her few and held them steady, loyal to the bone,
She gave the kind of love that makes a stranger feel at home,
Now something in her own foundation calls her by her name,
The full and reckoning glow of it is asking her to claim

[PreChorus]
Not another person's mending, not a role she's been assigned,
But the whole complete unfolding of the life she left behind

[Chorus]
Deborah, you have always been the one worth coming home to,
Now it's time someone stays and tends that same sweet fire for you,
All that you've been holding open finally opens up inside,
You were worth it from the very start, no more reason left to hide
Deborah, you are the gift

[Bridge]
She never got to be the child who ran without a care,
So let her be the woman now who finally stops and dares,
To want the things she never asked, to rest without a debt,
The one who holds herself as gently as she held all of the rest

[Outro]
Deborah, the full moon's rising just to shine on you tonight,
Everything you are has always been enough, has always been the light