[Verse 1]
She came in blazing, all her colors flying wide,
A double dose of gold on the inside,
The kind who holds the vision for the whole room's sake,
Who leads the circle without a word to make,
Her inner world runs deeper than she shows the crowd,
A roaring heart that learned to think out loud,

[PreChorus]
But the loudest voice inside her can go dark and still,
There's a throne she keeps empty at her own window sill,

[Chorus]
Shannon, you were built to hold the torch and run,
Not to prove yourself under someone else's sun,
Every door you kicked open was always yours to claim,
Shannon, the whole sky learned to answer to your name,

[Verse 2]
She loves in catalogued devotion, keeps the receipt,
Remembers what you wore the day your two worlds meet,
Behind the scene she stitches what keeps everyone whole,
A ten-year loyalty tucked inside a casserole,
The fire in her gut runs straight to the work she does,
She doesn't ask for credit — but she never quits because,

[PreChorus]
The slow road taught her things the shortcut never could,
She built the ladder rung by rung, the way she knew she would,

[Chorus]
Shannon, you carry more than daylight ought to hold,
Every fracture in your story turned to hammered gold,
The collective heard your vision long before they knew,
Shannon, every anthem in this world has room for you,

[Verse 3]
She stood where family ground was less than solid clay,
And learned to build the homestead a different way,
Her mind moves like a frequency the room can't quite decode,
A heretic of half-truths on a truth-or-nothing road,
The moment her own voice comes back uncensored, free,
Is the moment every person in the room agrees,

[PreChorus]
Something in her is shifting past the part she played before,
She's standing at the threshold and she's choosing through the door,

[Chorus]
Shannon, you were never here to whisper, dim, or fade,
Watch the room go quiet when you step into your trade,
The word is getting louder and the word has always been
Shannon — you were always more than anything you've seen,

[Bridge]
The voice that turned back inside now turns outward and rings,
She stops editing the sentence right before it grows wings,
The second draft she abandoned is the one that was true,
The anthem was never lost — she just finally broke through,

[Outro]
So blaze it all, Shannon, with everything you are,
Every question that you carried was the making of a star,