[Verse 1]
She built her reputation brick by careful brick,
Showed up before the sun, learned every trick,
The ledger balanced on her shoulders every year,
Yet the name at the top of the page stayed unclear,
She carried the whole floor and filed it without fuss,
Gloria, there's no one who has ever worked like us

[PreChorus]
But something deeper than ambition keeps the fire fed,
A voice that drafts the blueprint long before she's read

[Chorus]
Gloria, you were forged in the doing, not the praise,
Every overlooked hour just sharpened your gaze,
The tally of your effort doesn't need a stranger's seal,
Gloria, what you built is permanent and real

[Verse 2]
Her heart reads every room before she clears the door,
Remembers every fracture, every settling score,
She loves by finding what the other person hides,
Pulls the truest version out from underneath their pride,
But the mirror in the hallway tells a different truth,
She's been paying off a debt she never owed in youth

[PreChorus]
Now the compass she constructed out of doubt and years,
Points truer than the doctrine that she bought with tears

[Chorus]
Gloria, the map you drew by wandering was right,
Your own crooked question was the clearest light,
No borrowed creed can hold the answer that you've made,
Gloria, your authority was never up for trade

[Verse 3]
She stood at the edge of every circle, holding the thread,
Rallied every dreamer, put the vision into bread,
The cause moved forward every time she took the floor,
Not for recognition but because she kept the score,
Now a new transmission crackles through the open air,
And the words arrive like clockwork, crisp and clear and bare

[PreChorus]
The language she was saving for a better, bolder day,
Has finally found the frequency to finally have its say

[Chorus]
Gloria, your voice was tuned before the signal cleared,
Everything you practised through the decades disappears,
The broadcast has been waiting on the tower all along,
Gloria, this is your transmission and your song

[Bridge]
She thought the unseen hours were the cost of standing tall,
But the depth you earn in darkness is the deepest gift of all,
The ledger that she hid behind the calendar and clock,
Was always just a door she had the key to but never unlocked

[Outro]
Gloria, step through it now, the threshold has been paid,
Every careful, tireless year was made for this decade