[Verse 1]
There's a fire in the way you face the morning light,
A horizon-chaser born to push beyond the night,
You speak in open sentences and think in wide open skies,
But there's a quiet calibration always running behind your eyes,
You need the world to make sense, every seam and every thread,
So you carry all the questions that nobody else has said,
They see the warmth, the laughter, and the arrow always aimed,
But they don't see the inner tide you've learned to keep contained

[PreChorus 1]
And you've held so much together with a steady, careful hand,
Built your worth on what you've offered, tried so hard to understand,
But the ocean underneath you is not something to explain,
It's the reason you feel everything with such exquisite pain

[Chorus 1]
Karen, you were written in a language wide and true,
Every contradiction part of what makes someone just like you,
You're the fire and the stillness and the depth that holds the shore,
You don't have to earn your place here, you were placed here to be more,
Karen, let the stars remind you what your heart already knows,
You are held inside the turning of a world that only grows

[Verse 2]
You love like an explorer and you give before you're asked,
There's a loyalty that doesn't fade beneath the years that have passed,
You'll walk beside the ones you choose through every unlit road,
But you sometimes hide the heaviness you're carrying alone,
You've built a careful structure where the feelings can't run wild,
And you've learned to present order so the world won't see the child,
The one who just wanted somewhere she could finally land,
A place where she was precious and somebody'd understand

[PreChorus 2]
And the wounds that grew in silence, where belonging felt unsure,
Made you hunger for connection that was genuine and pure,
You became your own foundation when the ground beneath was thin,
And you found a kind of courage that could only grow from within

[Chorus 2]
Karen, you were written in a language wide and true,
Every contradiction part of what makes someone just like you,
You're the fire and the stillness and the depth that holds the shore,
You don't have to earn your place here, you were placed here to be more,
Karen, let the stars remind you what your heart already knows,
You are held inside the turning of a world that only grows

[Verse 3]
There's a brilliance in the way your mind can hold a thousand things,
The philosophy, the pattern, and the detail that it brings,
You can feel into a room before a single word is said,
You've always known more than you've shown and more than what you've read,
You work like it's a calling and you serve like it's a gift,
Every ordinary moment something only you can lift,
But your worth was never measured by the hours that you gave,
The gold inside your nature isn't something you should save

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You've transformed through the fires that would flatten someone small,
You've stood inside the darkness and you've learned to hold it all,
And every time you rose again, you carried something new,
A depth of understanding only someone real gets to move through

[Chorus 3]
Karen, you were written in a language wide and true,
Every contradiction part of what makes someone just like you,
You're the fire and the stillness and the depth that holds the shore,
You don't have to earn your place here, you were placed here to be more,
Karen, let the stars remind you what your heart already knows,
You are held inside the turning of a world that only grows

[Verse 4]
Now there is a compass buried in the center of your chest,
It points toward what is honest and it knows you at your best,
Not the version that is useful, not the one that holds the line,
But the one who burns with wonder and refuses to decline,
You were never meant for smallness and you've always sensed it there,
That pull toward something larger than the limits of the air,
The universe did not write you in ordinary ink,
You're the kind of rare that most of them don't even stop to think

[PreChorus 4]
So let the searching be enough and let the questions lead you home,
You were never truly broken and you've never been alone,
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