[Verse 1]
There's a fire underneath the careful way you move
A quiet kind of knowing you don't have to prove
You carry every feeling like a current, deep and wide
And no one sees the ocean you've been holding all inside
You think in poetry before you even speak
You notice what the world walks past, the details no one seeks
There's warmth in how you show up, in the small things that you do
The kind of love that doesn't shout but always follows through

[PreChorus]
And maybe you've been wondering if anyone could see
Every contradicting layer of the person that you'd be
The lion and the listener, the tender and the strong
Honey, you were never too much — you've belonged all along

[Chorus]
This is for you, Calli, every version, every phase
The one who burned so quietly through all the darkest days
You are written in the language of the fire and the tide
There was never anything in you that needed to be hidden or denied
This is for you, Calli, every scar and every seam
You were always more than worthy of the life inside your dreams

[Verse 2]
You've tried to explain yourself a thousand different ways
Put your heart into your sentences and still felt the gaze
Of eyes that didn't catch it, ears that didn't stay
So you learned to keep the truest parts of you tucked safe away
But that voice you learned to quiet, it was never wrong or small
It was just too full of feeling for a room with paper walls
Every word you chose so carefully, every thought you turned around
That's not overthinking, love — that's how the real ones get found

[PreChorus]
And maybe you've been wondering if anyone could see
Every contradicting layer of the person that you'd be
The lion and the listener, the tender and the strong
Honey, you were never too much — you've belonged all along

[Chorus]
This is for you, Calli, every version, every phase
The one who burned so quietly through all the darkest days
You are written in the language of the fire and the tide
There was never anything in you that needed to be hidden or denied
This is for you, Calli, every scar and every seam
You were always more than worthy of the life inside your dreams

[Verse 3]
You love like someone building something that was meant to last
You don't love fast or easy, you love forward from the past
You remember every detail, every preference, every need
You give before you're asked because that giving is the creed
But somewhere in the giving you forgot to hold a place
For all the love you're aching for, the kind that holds your face
You deserve the same devotion you so faithfully extend
Someone who notices the noticing and stays until the end

[PreChorus]
And maybe you've been wondering if anyone could see
Every contradicting layer of the person that you'd be
The lion and the listener, the tender and the strong
Honey, you were never too much — you've belonged all along

[Chorus]
This is for you, Calli, every version, every phase
The one who burned so quietly through all the darkest days
You are written in the language of the fire and the tide
There was never anything in you that needed to be hidden or denied
This is for you, Calli, every scar and every seam
You were always more than worthy of the life inside your dreams

[Verse 4]
You've carried roots that shifted, felt the ground beneath you change
Built yourself a home inside a world that felt too strange
And still you stood with something in you steady at the core
A compass always pointing to what matters, nothing more
The world has tried to measure you by what it thinks it needs
But you were sewn from something older than the patterns and the creeds
There's a purpose in the way you move through everything you've faced
Every storm you didn't outrun, you turned into a sacred space

[PreChorus]
And maybe you've been wondering if anyone could see
Every contradicting layer of the person that you'd be
The lion and the listener, the tender and the strong
Honey, you were never too much — you've belonged all along

[Chorus]
This is for you, Calli, every version, every phase
The one who burned so quietly through all the darkest days
You are written in the language of the fire and the tide
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