[Verse 1]
There's a stillness on the surface, like the earth before the rain,
A patience built from holding more than most could ever name,
You tend the roots of everything, the hearth, the blood, the bone,
And still there's something deep in you that no one's ever known,
They see the calm, they miss the tide that pulls beneath your chest,
The ocean you've been carrying while giving all the rest,
A mind that catches fire before the thought has found its ground,
And words that hold a world inside that no one's heard the sound.

[PreChorus]
You've been the safe place for so long you forgot to rest,
You gave before you'd even named what lived inside your chest,
But everything you carry is the proof of what you are,
You were written in the quiet, you were charted like a star.

[Chorus]
Joanne, you are the deep and the certain,
The still of the night and the wind in the curtain,
The kind that loves wide, like the tide loves the shore,
You are enough, you have always been more,
Joanne, let the stars speak your name,
You were made for this moment, you arrived to remain.

[Verse 2]
You've wondered if your voice lands true, if anyone can tell,
If what you mean and what is heard are ever parallel,
You've pressed your thoughts to perfect shapes before you'd let them fly,
And swallowed down a hundred truths beneath a patient smile,
But that longing to be listened to, it's not a wound, it's fire,
It's a compass pointing inward to a deeper, truer choir,
There's a beauty in the way you love, like something without walls,
A laugh inside a question, and a hand that always calls.

[PreChorus]
You've been the safe place for so long you forgot to rest,
You gave before you'd even named what lived inside your chest,
But everything you carry is the proof of what you are,
You were written in the quiet, you were charted like a star.

[Chorus]
Joanne, you are the deep and the certain,
The still of the night and the wind in the curtain,
The kind that loves wide, like the tide loves the shore,
You are enough, you have always been more,
Joanne, let the stars speak your name,
You were made for this moment, you arrived to remain.

[Verse 3]
You've built your life on solid ground and still you've heard the call,
Of something vast and luminous beyond the practical wall,
Between the dream and what is real you've walked a midnight line,
Turned doubt to dedication, turned the ordinary fine,
There's an old soul at the centre that has carried heavy things,
Who learned to bear the weight of worlds on quietly steady wings,
But you were never meant to hold it all and never fall apart,
The cosmos left a compass spinning true inside your heart.

[PreChorus]
You've been the safe place for so long you forgot to rest,
You gave before you'd even named what lived inside your chest,
But everything you carry is the proof of what you are,
You were written in the quiet, you were charted like a star.

[Chorus]
Joanne, you are the deep and the certain,
The still of the night and the wind in the curtain,
The kind that loves wide, like the tide loves the shore,
You are enough, you have always been more,
Joanne, let the stars speak your name,
You were made for this moment, you arrived to remain.

[Bridge]
You don't need to earn the ground beneath your feet,
You don't need to fix the things that made you incomplete,
Every contradiction is a colour in your light,
The tenderness, the fire, the long and stubborn night,
The world needs what you carry, every layer, every seam,
You are ancient and you're present and you're more than you have seen.

[Outro]
So rest inside your roots a while and let the night be still,
The stars already know your name and always have and will,
You are held by something deeper than the eye can trace,
Joanne, you are enough, right here, exactly in this place.