[Verse 1]
She keeps a running list of everything still left undone,
Disciplines her daydreams before the work is done,
Carries the whole household on a quietly composed face,
Feels every room's emotion while she holds her steady place,
Her warmest love lives hidden where nobody thinks to look,
A grand and golden devotion pressed like flowers in a closed book,

[PreChorus]
But the life she gives so freely is the life she's also owed,
Every mile she walked for others was her own uncharted road,

[Chorus]
Cori, the gold you guard in secret is the gold you're made of too,
Every quiet act of devotion started and ended with you,
You built something that lasts from every crack you had to seal,
Cori, the truest thing about you is the love you finally feel,

[Verse 2]
She learned to prove her worth in output, in the ledger, in the task,
Trained herself to stop expecting more than duty thought to ask,
But her creative fire is playing underneath that structured shell,
She writes the poem, draws the vision, rings her own interior bell,
Two selves facing one another across the full and gleaming dark,
The one who keeps the schedule and the one who keeps the spark,

[PreChorus]
She's been translating her own heartbeat into language others use,
Now the voice she kept in silence is the one she gets to choose,

[Chorus]
Cori, the words you swallowed whole were never meant to disappear,
Every sentence you've been drafting in the dark belongs right here,
You don't have to earn the right to let that radiant self be known,
Cori, every vision you've been tending has already fully grown,

[Verse 3]
The roots in her foundation hold the stories of an older fire,
She untangled what was handed down, kept only what rings true and higher,
Her loyalty runs longer than the contracts anyone has signed,
She loves with the precision of a builder with a long-term mind,
Now something in her own name calls her forward like a new-made vow,
The pilgrim who mapped everyone else's path is mapping her own now,

[PreChorus]
She spent a lifetime reading every signal in the room she's in,
Now the most important signal is the one that starts within,

[Chorus]
Cori, the expedition you've been waiting on begins with your own feet,
Every chapter you kept private is the story now complete,
You were the missing traveler on the journey you designed,
Cori, go — the road ahead is everything you had in mind,

[Bridge]
She stood between the wanting and the doing for so long,
Held the whole note past the measure until silence became song,
The archive in her chest unlocks — she is the key, the door, the hall,
She was never the footnote; she was always meant to hold it all,

[Outro]
Cori, let the stars you carry speak,
Every answer that you sought lives in the voice you've yet to speak,
This is the version that was written first — the real, the whole, the true,
The one the whole sky organized itself around: that one is you,