[Verse 1]
She grew up running conversations in her head at night,
Rewrote the sentence sixteen ways before she said it right,
A mind that moved like quick water over cold stone,
But the words came out sideways, and she stood there alone,
She carried the story of every room she walked through,
A whole library inside her, and no one asked what she knew,

[PreChorus]
But every page she filled in private, every draft she burned,
Was her finding out exactly what her voice had earned,

[Chorus]
Cory, the stars were listening when no one else would hear,
The things you wrote at midnight are the truest things, my dear,
You were made to speak in full — not half a sentence, not a prayer,
Cory, your words were never too much — they were always worth the air,

[Verse 2]
She felt everything the room felt, doubled and unnamed,
Like a tuning fork that no one else knew how to play,
Her heart kept its performances behind a private door,
She wanted to be seen but kept the best of her in store,
She loved like she was decoding something beautiful and rare,
Found the hidden good in people others never stopped to square,

[PreChorus]
That kind of love took courage she was slow to call her own,
But devotion that runs fathoms deep was never built on loan,

[Chorus]
Cory, you gave the best of you before you caught the cost,
But nothing that you poured out true was ever really lost,
You were the one who memorized the grief behind the grin,
Cory, let that same deep knowing finally turn within,

[Verse 3]
She chased the edge of every map, the question past the last,
Dismantled every system till she found something that'd last,
Methodical as rainfall on a long and stubborn drought,
She circled back to fix the thing that nobody cared about,
They called her too precise, too much, too restless to be still,
But she was just a woman who knew how to use her will,

[PreChorus]
The ones who told her to sit down were standing in her way,
She kept her own good counsel and she moved along anyway,

[Chorus]
Cory, the searching never stopped because you couldn't find your place,
It stopped when you decided you were done apologizing for your pace,
You were built for the long road and the questions no one's cracked,
Cory, the whole wide world needs someone who will always circle back,

[Verse 4]
Now something in her opens like a sentence finding ground,
The voice she kept in letters finally ready to ring out loud,
She stood between two versions of herself for years on end,
The one who played it smaller and the one around the bend,
That second one was always there — she knew it, knew it well,
She's got enough of her own story left to finally tell,

[PreChorus]
The shift she's felt is real and it is hers and it is now,
The only question left to answer is the when, not if, not how,

[Chorus]
Cory, open up that draft you saved and never sent to light,
The voice that you protected all this time was always right,
You are not the footnote, you are not the quiet underscore,
Cory, say it like you mean it, say it loud, and then say more,

[Bridge]
There's a letter folded up she wrote at thirty-four,
That said she'd find her footing when she wasn't scared anymore,
She found it twenty times before she called the feeling done,
She can read that letter laughing now — because she's already won,

[Outro]
Let the stars confirm what you already know,
Cory, you were made to speak — and now it's time to go,
Go on, say the whole thing, let the full voice through,
Every word you have is one this world is waiting to hear from you,