[Verse 1]
She was born before the sun had cleared the ridge,
A builder laying stone by stone across every bridge,
Serious as a ledger, patient as the clay,
She tallied up her worth in what she made each day,
But deep beneath the discipline, a dreamer kept the door,
A current running quiet through the bedrock of her core,

[PreChorus]
Two rivers in one person, neither one a flaw,
The stubbornness of purpose and the tenderness of awe,

[Chorus]
Janet, you were forged in the hour before the light,
A steady hand at daybreak and a visionary at night,
Every year you built the thing that lesser hands would leave,
Janet, you were always more than you could dare believe,

[Verse 2]
She walks into a room and something settles in the air,
Not the loudest voice, but everyone knows that she is there,
She loves the way a river loves the canyon it has carved,
She gives the whole of what she has and still she never starved,
Though the ones she gave to most could seldom match her depth,
She held the line for home and kin as naturally as breath,

[PreChorus]
She learned too late how freely she had handed out her gold,
But generosity that deep only proves what it has told,

[Chorus]
Janet, you were never just the role that people named,
Not the keeper of the records, not the one who stayed and tamed,
Every scar became a doorway to a room you hadn't seen,
Janet, you carry more of heaven than you've ever let it mean,

[Verse 3]
There's a mind in her that sparks and runs ahead of the expected,
She questioned what the doctrine said and left no stone unchecked and,
Half the truths she wrestled with took decades to come clear,
She'd sooner lose the comfort than surrender the frontier,
Her philosophy took hardship for the price of going deep,
No shallow well was ever worth the promises it'd keep,

[PreChorus]
And the partnerships she wanted weren't the ordinary kind,
She needed someone who could hold the whole of her combined,

[Chorus]
Janet, every question that you couldn't put to rest,
Was the compass needle swinging toward the truest in your chest,
Not a flaw for wanting more than surfaces could give,
Janet, that's the reason and the fire that you live,

[Verse 4]
Now the long work turns its face and meets a different sun,
The account books of the years show everything she's done,
A balance due not counting what was mortgaged or delayed,
But the interest on the kindness and the courage she displayed,
Something moves beyond the ridge now, wide as undrawn breath,
The kind of open country that rewards a life of depth,

[PreChorus]
The ledger closes even, every column finally clear,
The builder gets to rest inside the house she made right here,

[Chorus]
Janet, let the record show the fullness of your name,
Every careful choice you made that kept an even flame,
This is not the ending of the story you have known,
Janet, this is walking into all you've always owned,

[Bridge]
She poured the dream into the mortar of the actual days,
She turned the old uncertainty into a practiced grace,
And what had felt like waiting was apprenticeship for this,
The hour when the work becomes the life, and nothing's missed,

[Outro]
Janet, the stars that held your watch have not gone dim,
They only stepped aside to let your own light in,
You built from dark to daybreak, now the daybreak holds your name,