[Verse 1]
She hit the ground running before the sun broke through,
Three bodies in the first house — she was born to pursue,
The one who walks in first, who moves before the room agrees,
Who doesn't dim to fit the door or drop down to her knees,
But underneath that charge there's a mind that thinks in code,
A private inner language she's still learning to unload,

[PreChorus]
The loudest thing about her is the thought she never said,
A whole cathedral of ideas living rent-free in her head,

[Chorus]
Malisa, you were forged in the forward, in the first,
You've outrun every version of the drought before the thirst,
The charge, the push, the courage — none of it was luck,
Malisa, you don't ask for room — you show up and you take up,

[Verse 2]
She catalogs the details like the day depends on it,
Alphabetizes her feelings, finds the flaw, commits,
She's built her worth on doing, on the task that's never done,
On the checklist left on Tuesday that bleeds into the sun,
But every act of service she has handed someone else
Was the same fierce love she forgot to offer herself,

[PreChorus]
She's the one who fills the gaps before the gaps appear,
But the sharpest kind of courage is to say *I matter here,*

[Chorus]
Malisa, who you are is not the sum of what you fix,
The ledger of your giving tips beyond the arithmetic,
You love like you mean it, first and fast and unafraid,
Malisa, put your name at the top — you're the one who gets repaid,

[Verse 3]
The pull between the blazing self and what the mirror shows,
The power struggles hiding in the places no one goes,
She's drawn the ones who test her, and she's walked those halls of fire,
Come out the other side of each one, standing even higher,
Now something in her knows the stage was always hers to take,
The play, the spark, the standing ovation she can make,

[PreChorus]
The next chapter isn't waiting for permission to begin,
It already knows her name — it's only asking her to step in,

[Chorus]
Malisa, hear the sound of your own signal coming clear,
Every bold beginning that you dreamed about is here,
You're not too fast, too much, too loud — you're exactly what was meant,
Malisa, strike the match and let them marvel at the ascent,

[Bridge]
She kept the fire when they handed her a reason to go cold,
She built a frame around the chaos before she could be told,
The parts of her she questioned are the parts that led the way,
She was never asking for permission — she was clearing out the grey,

[Outro]
Malisa, take the front row — it was always your design,
The whole horizon leaning in, waiting on your sign,