[Verse 1]
She carries the ocean in the quiet of her chest,
A tide that keeps on turning underneath the calm she's dressed,
She speaks through memory, through feeling, through the bone,
A mind that thinks in poetry when no one else is home,
There's a current in her laughter that the surface doesn't show,
A whole horizon living in the spaces that she knows,
She's built for something lasting, she was never meant to fade,
Every careful word she chooses is a foundation being laid

[PreChorus]
They see the stillness, they don't see the storm,
They see the shelter, not the one who built it in the rain before,
But something deeper knows the truth of what she holds inside,
A compass etched in starlight, and it's always pointing right

[Chorus]
Maria, you are more than what you carry and conceal,
Maria, all that depth inside you is the realest thing they'll feel,
You love like something rooted, like the earth beneath the stone,
You were written in the cosmos, and you've never been alone,
Maria

[Verse 2]
She wants to know the meaning, wants to chase the distant light,
A restless kind of wisdom that keeps burning through the night,
She'll cross a thousand borders in the corners of her mind,
Collecting all the questions that the ordinary leaves behind,
But there's a wound beneath the searching, an old ache she knows well,
A voice that used to whisper she was less than what she felt,
She learned to doubt her value before she learned her name,
And still she kept on giving like she had herself to blame

[PreChorus]
They see the giver, they don't see the cost,
They see the one who holds it all, they don't see what she almost lost,
But every time she chose to rise when rising felt too hard,
She was rewriting every old lie, carving light from every scar

[Chorus]
Maria, you are more than what you carry and conceal,
Maria, all that depth inside you is the realest thing they'll feel,
You love like something rooted, like the earth beneath the stone,
You were written in the cosmos, and you've never been alone,
Maria

[Verse 3]
She loves with the patience of something slow and sure and strong,
She doesn't rush the sacred, she has known where she belongs,
She gives before she's asked to, holds the room before it breaks,
She's a presence built like bedrock, steady under all the weight,
There's a fire underneath the measured way she moves and speaks,
The kind that doesn't flash and fade, it only burns more deep,
She's learning now the circle always brings her back to this,
That the power she's been searching for was never what she missed

[PreChorus]
She doesn't need permission to be everything she is,
She doesn't need to earn the ground beneath her, it was always hers to live,
The universe has written her in language that won't break,
She was made for this becoming, and it's beautiful to watch her wake

[Chorus]
Maria, you are more than what you carry and conceal,
Maria, all that depth inside you is the realest thing they'll feel,
You love like something rooted, like the earth beneath the stone,
You were written in the cosmos, and you've never been alone,
Maria

[Bridge]
You don't have to hold the whole world steady with your two bare hands,
You don't have to translate your worth into a thing they understand,
The tides inside you are not trouble, they are where your gifts were born,
Every wall you ever built was just a door waiting for the storm,
Let it open, let it open, let the real you finally through,
There is nothing left to prove because the truth of you is enough,
It always was, it always was, it always was enough

[Outro]
You are guided, you are rooted, you are held beyond the night,
Every question that you carry is a torch, not just a fight,
The world needs what you're made of, all the depth you try to hide,
Maria, you were always, always worth the tide