[Verse 1]
She came into this world with fire behind her eyes,
A soul that read the room before she said her first goodbyes,
The ones who should have sheltered her left cracks along the floor,
So she learned to read the silence and to bolt the inner door,
She mapped the dark by instinct, kept her feelings under key,
Carrying a knowing that was heavier than she should be,

[PreChorus]
But underneath that careful lock, a river runs so deep,
Full of everything she loved and everything she had to keep,

[Chorus]
Debra, every scar you sealed became a second skin,
There was never a beginning where the real you didn't win,
Debra, you were written in the part of the sky that doesn't blink,
You're deeper than the questions and you're braver than you think,

[Verse 2]
She gave her whole heart over, soul-committed, nothing less,
Then carried a new life inside a chest full of distress,
A love she never finished loving, gone before its time,
She rocked that baby in the dark and refused to let it rhyme,
The grief was hers alone to fold and press into a drawer,
But she opened every morning and she walked back out the door,

[PreChorus]
That kind of devotion doesn't advertise its name,
It just shows up in the kitchen and it keeps the candle flame,

[Chorus]
Debra, there's a tenderness in you that runs bone-deep and true,
It asked for nothing easy, only what was right and good and you,
Debra, what you've carried wasn't meant to be your only song,
There are notes in you still waiting that have never been sung wrong,

[Verse 3]
And then came the letting go of those who made her small,
The complicated grief of parents she could never fully call,
No clean chapter, no apology written on a page,
Just a woman holding both the loss and all the unspent rage,
She looked straight at the tangled root and didn't look away,
Still reaching for the truest version of herself each day,

[PreChorus]
She never needed anyone to tell her who she was,
She already knew, and knowing's harder than it ever was,

[Chorus]
Debra, there's a whole sky in your chest that don't need asking leave,
You were born to feel the full weight of everything and still believe,
Debra, let this be the place you set it down and let it be,
You were always more than what was done, you were always always free,

[Bridge]
Not every door that closes leaves you less than who you are,
Not every wound that opened left you less than you were carved,
She loved the ones who needed it and swallowed what they cost,
But Debra was never once among the things she ever lost,

[Outro]
So here's to Debra, standing in the clearing, finally her own,
Every version of herself she held is finally coming home,