[Verse 1]
There's a quiet kind of power in the way you hold your ground,
You notice every detail that the rest of them walk around,
A mind that leaves no stone unturned, a heart that keeps the score,
You carry more than anyone could ever ask you for,
They see the surface, calm and sure, they don't see the tide,
All those currents running deep and dark and wide inside,
You've mapped the world a hundred times before you let it show,
There's an ocean underneath the stillness that they'll never know

[PreChorus]
You were built for something bigger than the role you've been assigned,
Every question that you carried lit a fire in your mind

[Chorus]
Kerry, you are the depth before the dawn,
The tide that keeps on coming after everyone has gone,
You are the calm, the current, and the flame,
The universe wrote carefully when it wrote your name,
Kerry, you are enough, exactly as you are,
A soul that was assembled from the architecture of the stars

[Verse 2]
You learned so young to guard the things that mattered most to you,
To build a room inside yourself that no one could get through,
And still you love like something ancient, steady and profound,
You give before you're asked and barely make a sound,
You crave connection at the bone, the kind that doesn't lie,
The kind that holds you through the dark and doesn't ask you why,
But you've been hurt in the spaces where you opened up your door,
So now you watch the ones who reach and wonder what they're for

[PreChorus]
Even so, the way you love is fearless in its own right,
Every scar became a lantern leading someone else to light

[Chorus]
Kerry, you are the depth before the dawn,
The tide that keeps on coming after everyone has gone,
You are the calm, the current, and the flame,
The universe wrote carefully when it wrote your name,
Kerry, you are enough, exactly as you are,
A soul that was assembled from the architecture of the stars

[Verse 3]
You've sat inside the silence with the weight of what you know,
The things you hold in shadow that you've never let them show,
That searching feeling in your chest for meaning, more, and truth,
A pilgrim heart that's never quite been satisfied with proof,
You think in poems no one hears, you feel in floods and tides,
You've always seen the hidden things that everyone else hides,
And yes you've doubted what you're worth when the world didn't see,
But your value was never up for anyone else to agree

[PreChorus]
You have carried worlds in quiet, you have risen every time,
And the ground beneath your feet is steadier than the climb

[Chorus]
Kerry, you are the depth before the dawn,
The tide that keeps on coming after everyone has gone,
You are the calm, the current, and the flame,
The universe wrote carefully when it wrote your name,
Kerry, you are enough, exactly as you are,
A soul that was assembled from the architecture of the stars

[Verse 4]
There's a vision in you burning for a world that could be good,
You'd give your energy to causes if you only thought you should,
But permission is the gift you've never offered to yourself,
You've placed your own becoming on the highest dusty shelf,
The people in your circle feel it, something shifts when you walk in,
There's a warmth that disarms quickly and a knowing tucked within,
You are a quiet kind of trailblazer who moves by inner light,
Not the loudest in the room, but always something isn't right till you arrive

[PreChorus]
The world needs what you carry, don't you give your gifts away,
There's a compass pointing forward and it's been there every day

[Chorus]
Kerry, you are the depth before the dawn,
The tide that keeps on coming after everyone has gone,
You are the calm, the current, and the flame,
The universe wrote carefully when it wrote your name,
Kerry, you are enough, exactly as you are,
A soul that was assembled from the architecture of the stars

[Bridge]
You don't have to be perfect to be whole,
You don't have to be certain to be bold,
Every version you've been needed to be lived,
And every part of you has always