[Verse 1]
She came in running, never built for standing still,
A torch that torches doubt and bends a room to her will,
Her mind moves like a current under everything she's said,
Not the words they wrote down — the ones she felt instead,
She's been the loudest voice inside a cause that needed one,
The kind of person rooms remember long after she's gone,

[PreChorus]
But the ones who run the hardest sometimes run past what they've earned,
Debra, every mile you've blazed is ground you rightfully returned,

[Chorus]
Debra, you were built to lead, not wait for a sign,
Every door you ever broke down already had your name on the line,
You don't need the world to call you — you answer for yourself,
Debra, take the crown you've been keeping on somebody else's shelf,

[Verse 2]
She throws her whole heart in before she checks the temperature,
The kind of bold that people talk about a long time after,
She's kept the faith when every system said the faith was wrong,
Rewrote the definition of the place where she belongs,
She built a home that looked like nothing anybody built before,
Broke the mold they handed her and built herself a door,

[PreChorus]
She's carried her own compass through the country of the in-between,
Debra, what you built from that is harder than they'll ever see,

[Chorus]
Debra, you've always known which way was forward and true,
Every hand you ever opened came back full because of you,
You don't owe a single person proof of what you're worth,
Debra, the vision always lived inside you first,

[Verse 3]
Now something's turning over like a page that's been held down,
A different kind of courage when you finally claim your own ground,
The long work done in quiet, the investment no one clocked,
The legacy that's been accruing while the doubters stood and talked,
There's a depth in you that crisis never managed to contain,
What Venus touches in its darkest orbit comes back out untamed,

[PreChorus]
You've healed enough for others — now the healing curves toward you,
Debra, everything you've given has been practicing its due,

[Chorus]
Debra, the future's asking for exactly who you are,
Not the edited version — all the brilliance, every scar,
You were always the horizon that you've been chasing down the road,
Debra, lay that borrowed smallness down — you've got a torch to hold,

[Bridge]
The wound around the work, the effort no one named,
The years you kept delivering while something in you strained,
You don't need a verdict from the voices that withheld,
The authority was yours before they ever came to tell,

[Outro]
Run, Debra, run — you were never meant to slow,
The road ahead belongs to everything you know,
The stars didn't ask you to be less — they aimed you at the sky,
You were always the answer, love — it's finally your time,