[Verse 1]
She learned to read the room before she learned to read a book,
Took the temperature of every table, every look,
Built her shelter out of knowing, brick by careful brick,
The kind of knowing that can't be taught and doesn't come quick,
She carried what the women before her left unspoken,
And turned old tangled roots into something wide open

[PreChorus]
She stood at the top of every hill she ever climbed,
A visionary working years ahead of time

[Chorus]
Midge, you were forged in something deeper than approval,
You built the house that nobody else could build for you,
Midge, every door you opened, you had earned the key,
Your life's the clearest proof of who you chose to be

[Verse 2]
She waits before she moves, she watches before she speaks,
She'll hold a single question for a dozen weeks,
Then comes the answer, sharp and clean and wholly her own,
A mind that draws its maps to places no one else has known,
She can read the grief behind a smile across a crowded hall,
And still she walks toward the future, straight and tall

[PreChorus]
She knew before the room did that the tide was turning fast,
She planted something permanent that outlives what couldn't last

[Chorus]
Midge, you were never meant to need the crowd's approval,
Your vision wasn't borrowed, it was always wholly true,
Midge, every time the ledger wouldn't balance and you stayed,
You built the kind of courage that cannot be unmade

[Verse 3]
She loves the way a locksmith loves the lock she understands,
With patience in her posture and precision in her hands,
She won't throw open every room on the very first day,
But when she trusts you, she will trust you in the deepest way,
She's walked through transformations that would shake a lesser soul,
And come out holding something more intact, more whole

[PreChorus]
The push and pull between her hunger and her careful heart,
Was never contradiction — it was always just her art

[Chorus]
Midge, you are the sum of every cycle you survived,
Every reinvention proved how hard you've always thrived,
Midge, the devotion that you carry like a lantern lit,
Has kept someone warm in every room you ever lit

[Verse 4]
Now something's loosening the latch on what she used to hold,
The list of explanations she no longer needs to fold,
The eclipsed moon pulling gently at a decade of control,
A quiet invitation to release and to console,
She's already done the hardest work of digging through the past,
And what remains is everything she built to last

[PreChorus]
She doesn't need to justify the way she's always known,
The blueprint of her purpose she has carried on her own

[Chorus]
Midge, let what you're releasing finally fall away,
You've proved your worth in every ordinary day,
Midge, the woman that you've always been is more than enough,
You were always more than enough

[Bridge]
She doesn't need the title or the nod from any room,
She's been her own authority since long before she knew,
The years of reaching, proving, building without being seen,
Were making her into the most enduring thing she's ever been

[Outro]
Midge, step into the story that was always yours to own,
Every road you've traveled brought you further into home