[Verse 1]
The pen scratched the page before the ink was dry,
Every thought weighed twice before you let it fly,
A mind that reads the room before the door swings wide,
And keeps the sharpest revelations locked inside,
You've held the lantern steady through the darkest hall,
The one who saw the cracks in every wall,

[PreChorus]
But the gallery was always meant to see your name,
Every canvas that you filled deserves its frame,

[Chorus]
Arden, you were built for more than holding back the tide,
The stellium in your chest was never meant to hide,
Five fires in one place don't burn to ash — they blaze,
Arden, this is not your ending — this is your first page,

[Verse 2]
You weigh the scales before you speak a single word,
Testing every sentence till the harmony is heard,
But when the verdict finally lands, it lands like stone,
And those who doubted find they're standing there alone,
Your love goes all the way down — no halfway, no retreat,
The kind that turns the coldest winter into heat,

[PreChorus]
You learned to guard the altar with a bolt and chain,
But what you kept locked up in there is not your pain —

[Chorus]
Arden, you were never just the steady hand in the storm,
The visionary dreamer breaking every known norm,
The ones who tried to dim you only fed your glow,
Arden, every door they closed just taught your feet to know,

[Verse 3]
There's a pull between the calling and the quieter road,
Between the public crown and setting down the load,
Between the bold idea that wakes you before dawn,
And the voice that asks if you're allowed to carry on,
A new blank slate is opening beneath October skies,
The kind of start that only comes from someone twice as wise,

[PreChorus]
The questions that have followed you from room to room —
They weren't a sentence, Arden — they were clearing you some room,

[Chorus]
Arden, this new moon belongs to no one else but you,
A reckoning and resting place for everything you knew,
The depth that you were born with is the gift they couldn't name,
Arden, strike the match — the whole horizon holds your flame,

[Bridge]
You've walked the edge of mystery and mapped it from inside,
You've held the grief of others while you swallowed down your pride,
Now the ledger's finally balanced and the first line reads your worth,
Everything that forged you was already proof of what you're worth,

[Outro]
So step into the open where the boldest voices land,
Arden, take the anthem that was always in your hand,