[Verse 1]
She came into this world with a ledger in her hands,
Counting what was solid, building on unsteady land,
A mind like a steel trap, a heart like a canyon deep,
Every goal she ever set, she swore that she would keep,
But the full moon pulled her open while ambition held her closed,
Half of her all structure, half of her exposed,

[PreChorus]
Two halves never resting, always holding the divide,
'Til she learned the tension was the thing that kept her alive,

[Chorus]
Cheri, you were built from contradictions, not from ease,
The builder and the dreamer both down on their knees,
Every crack you sealed by hand still let the daylight in,
Cheri, that's where all your real power begins,

[Verse 2]
She loves like an open road that stretches past the known,
A hand reached out in honesty toward somewhere still unshown,
She never settled for a quiet room when she could find the door,
She gave the truth before the comfort and they loved her even more,
She walked into a room and something shifted without a word,
Not the loudest voice around, but always the most heard,

[PreChorus]
She carried what the bloodline left, the ache inside the floor,
Then she laid new boards herself and built what wasn't there before,

[Chorus]
Cheri, every table that you set was set with your own hands,
Every home you made from nothing was built on sacred plans,
The depth you dove to find yourself, no one else could chart,
Cheri, that descent was always art,

[Verse 3]
Now something shifts the way it does when long-held waiting breaks,
When the thing that's been approaching finally fully wakes,
She's been the one who healed the room before she healed the wound,
Who read the dark like open text by the light of an interior moon,
The career they couldn't classify, the path that bent and rose,
She never fit their diagram, and that's how the story goes,

[PreChorus]
She's not arriving — she's been here, she just let the noise clear,
The clearest view of who she is is finally standing near,

[Chorus]
Cheri, every door that closed just moved you down the hall,
The unorthodox becoming legendary after all,
What they couldn't put a label on was always yours to claim,
Cheri, go ahead and step into the full width of your name,

[Bridge]
There's a kind of love that heals by diving, not by standing back,
She knows the weight of what was missing and what filled the crack,
She rebuilt the definition of the place she calls her own,
And she's never been more present than right now, right here, full grown,

[Outro]
Cheri, the stars knew all along,
They wrote the complicated parts and called it your song,