[Verse 1]
She moves through a room like a current beneath the glass,
Every thought arrives before the last one's had a chance to pass,
Her mind is like a junction where a hundred highways meet,
She's fluent in the language of the questions underneath,
There's an ocean running through her that the surface doesn't show,
A tenderness so ancient it's the only home she knows,
She's built a careful shelter from the storms she's carried through,
And the world calls it composure when it's really something true

[PreChorus]
She's the quiet before thunder and the thunder in the quiet,
She's been measuring her worth against a scale she didn't write,
But everything she's carried is the very thing that's lit her bright

[Chorus]
Carrie, you are the tide and the shore,
The dreamer and the depths worth diving for,
You've always been exactly what you sought,
More beautiful and whole than you were taught,
Carrie, let the current take you home,
You were never as alone as you have known,
The stars arranged themselves around your name,
And nothing in this universe is coincidence or shame

[Verse 2]
She loves like solid ground beneath a sky that won't stay still,
Patient as the seasons and as steady as a hill,
She gives before she's asked to and she gives until it's gone,
Then wonders in the silence why she feels she can't hold on,
She's learned to keep her hungers quiet, dress them up as fine,
Told herself that wanting things is just a waste of time,
But the way she loves is ancient — it's a well that doesn't dry,
And she deserves the kind of love she's always given by

[PreChorus]
She's the quiet before thunder and the thunder in the quiet,
She's been measuring her worth against a scale she didn't write,
But everything she's carried is the very thing that's lit her bright

[Chorus]
Carrie, you are the tide and the shore,
The dreamer and the depths worth diving for,
You've always been exactly what you sought,
More beautiful and whole than you were taught,
Carrie, let the current take you home,
You were never as alone as you have known,
The stars arranged themselves around your name,
And nothing in this universe is coincidence or shame

[Verse 3]
There's a wound she keeps returning to about whether she belongs,
About whether all the doing is what makes or breaks the bonds,
She has built her case for worthiness in effort and in proof,
Never knowing that her presence is the gift beneath the roof,
She's a visionary standing at the edge of something vast,
Half afraid to trust the future, half in conversation with the past,
But the ones who feel the most are not the broken or the lost —
They're the ones who know what beauty costs

[PreChorus]
She's the quiet before thunder and the thunder in the quiet,
She's been measuring her worth against a scale she didn't write,
But everything she's carried is the very thing that's lit her bright

[Chorus]
Carrie, you are the tide and the shore,
The dreamer and the depths worth diving for,
You've always been exactly what you sought,
More beautiful and whole than you were taught,
Carrie, let the current take you home,
You were never as alone as you have known,
The stars arranged themselves around your name,
And nothing in this universe is coincidence or shame

[Verse 4]
She's a force for something larger than the life that fits in days,
There's a purpose woven through her in a hundred different ways,
The communities she touches feel her even when she's gone,
Like a frequency that lingers when the source has moved along,
She has sat inside the darkness and returned to tell the light,
She has turned her understanding into someone's lantern in the night,
And the world she wants to give to isn't one she has to earn —
It's already burning in her

[PreChorus]
She's the quiet before thunder and the thunder in the quiet,
She's been measuring her worth against a scale she didn't write,
But everything she's carried is the very thing that's lit her bright

[Chorus]
Carrie, you are the tide and the shore,
The dreamer and the depths worth diving for,
You've always been exactly what you sought,
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