[Verse 1]
She rose before the house woke up, before the day had named itself,
Three fires stacked inside her chest, and still she kept them to herself,
The words she wrote at 2 a.m. that no one else was meant to see,
A mind that spoke in metaphor, a heart that ran ahead of sleep,
She carried everything she felt beneath a face that looked just fine,
A torch behind a frosted pane, too bright to be contained inside,

[PreChorus]
But a torch was never meant to hide behind the glass,
Every door she stood behind was one she'd built too fast,

[Chorus]
Leeann, you were forged from the very first light,
Not made to be a secret, you were made to ignite,
Leeann, the fire you've been guarding all these years,
That's not a risk — that's the reason that the whole sky clears,

[Verse 2]
She dove into the deep end of every love she chose,
No half-measures, no fine print, just her whole self in the undertow,
But the partner in her dreams kept shifting shape and slipping through,
So she learned to read the fog for what was honest, what was true,
She mapped the distance between the one she'd hoped for and the one who stayed,
And somewhere in that reckoning, she stopped mistaking glass for jade,

[PreChorus]
She doesn't need the perfect mirror anymore,
She just needs someone brave enough to knock upon the door,

[Chorus]
Leeann, the way you love is a gutsy, open field,
No hedging and no half-truths — everything you feel is real,
Leeann, the ones who earned you know exactly what that's worth,
You've always been the kind of love that anchors someone back to earth,

[Verse 3]
The years she spent constructing walls around the one she hoped to be,
Slow and sure and unannounced, like timber set against a tree,
She thought the long way round meant she had something still to prove,
But every careful step she took was just a woman finding groove,
Now something's shifting in the air the way it does before a speech,
The words she once kept locked inside have finally moved within her reach,

[PreChorus]
She's not beginning — she's arriving, and that's new,
Everything she built in silence is about to break right through,

[Chorus]
Leeann, step out of the wings and take the floor,
You've rehearsed in every shadow — that's what shadows are for,
Leeann, the voice that you've been holding in your chest,
Let it go like the first word after years of second-guessing, let it rest,

[Bridge]
She mapped the roads that others wouldn't walk,
She built the bridge before she dared to talk,
The long way home turned out to be the true,
And every fire she kept? It waited for her cue,

[Outro]
Leeann, the stage is lit, the first note's yours to give,
This is the song you always had — it was always how you live,