[Verse 1]
She came in quiet and she came in deep,
A soul that excavates before she sleeps,
The kind who reads the room before she speaks,
Who holds the heaviest truths for weeks and weeks,
But that still water runs to something vast —
She was built to outlast, built to outlast

[PreChorus]
She carried wonder like a second skin,
A warm, extravagant joy burning within

[Chorus]
Colleen, you were forged where deep rivers run,
A heart full of thunder and a face full of sun,
The separation was the distance between two stars —
Not falling apart, just learning who you are,
Colleen

[Verse 2]
She fights for the ones she loves without a word,
Her fiercest declarations go mostly unheard,
She aches toward the public eye and then pulls back,
Protects her ambition like a train on its track,
She has a mind that cuts through walls of stone —
But there were years she carried that alone

[PreChorus]
She read the silence where the truth was hidden,
Said the necessary thing that was forbidden

[Chorus]
Colleen, you were made where deep rivers run,
With a heart built for thunder and a face for the sun,
The distance was a garden where two people could grow —
Two women finding out what the other didn't know,
Colleen

[Verse 3]
She wanted a house that finally felt like home,
A foundation that wouldn't shift and move and roam,
She kept repainting the walls inside her chest,
Gave her loyalty out and kept back the rest,
But love that doesn't crowd you isn't cold —
It's the kind that holds its shape when you grow bold

[PreChorus]
She learned to tell the difference, joy from duty,
And found the two could walk together, strange and beautiful

[Chorus]
Colleen, both rivers found their way to run,
What looked like two separate lives was always one,
A mother and a daughter who had to wander free —
To understand the shape of what they always had to be,
Colleen

[Verse 4]
She prayed one prayer so long she stopped the clock,
And now the answer's standing at the door, no need to knock,
The storms that drove them sideways cleared a field,
Where two hearts finally learned the art of yield,
She is the friendship no one could have planned —
The answered prayer that finally understands

[PreChorus]
There are connections that survive the seasons turning,
That grow more sure the longer they've been burning

[Chorus]
Colleen, two rivers meeting, finally run,
Not a beginning now but proof of what's been done,
The years of rain just taught the roots to go down deep —
You are the kind of love a whole life works to keep,
Colleen

[Bridge]
Through every thunderhead and every quiet lull,
Through the years of empty chairs and tables full,
Two hearts that bent apart to learn their own true weight —
Came back to each other grateful, whole, and not too late

[Outro]
You were the prayer before the words were known,
Colleen, you've always, always been home