[Verse 1]
She holds a thousand thoughts like birds that won't sit still,
A mind that maps the world and bends it to its will,
She reads the room before she speaks, she feels it first,
A quiet knowing lives in her that nothing can disperse,
She moves with something graceful, something hard to place,
A diplomat inside a storm, composure on her face,
But underneath the polish and the even, steady tone,
There's an ocean she's been crossing mostly on her own

[PreChorus]
She carries what she cannot name,
She tends to everyone's small flame,
And forgets to ask who tends to hers at night

[Chorus]
Paula, the stars were careful when they made you,
Every contradiction woven in with grace,
Paula, the universe has always held and saved you,
You don't have to earn your right to take up space,
You are not too much, you are not too little,
You are exactly what this world needs here,
Paula, let the sky remind you when you're brittle,
That you were written whole, and that is clear

[Verse 2]
She loves like someone building something meant to last,
She wraps her heart around the ones who share her past,
She'll remember what you told her years before you do,
And long after you've forgotten, she'll still carry you,
But love has left its markings, left a lesson in the bone,
That opening the door sometimes means sitting with the unknown,
She's learned to guard the threshold of the places she holds dear,
And every wall she built was just a love song rooted in fear

[PreChorus]
She carries what she cannot name,
She tends to everyone's small flame,
And forgets to ask who tends to hers at night

[Chorus]
Paula, the stars were careful when they made you,
Every contradiction woven in with grace,
Paula, the universe has always held and saved you,
You don't have to earn your right to take up space,
You are not too much, you are not too little,
You are exactly what this world needs here,
Paula, let the sky remind you when you're brittle,
That you were written whole, and that is clear

[Verse 3]
There's a restlessness she carries like a question never solved,
A hunger for the truth that keeps her constantly evolved,
She's drawn to what lies deeper, to the layers underneath,
To the meaning hiding quietly beneath the thing beneath,
She's wrestled in the stillness with the weight of who she's been,
She's faced the parts of herself that she'd rather not have seen,
And every time she walked through fire she came out refined,
The kind of gold that only forms when tested over time

[PreChorus]
She carries what she cannot name,
She tends to everyone's small flame,
And forgets to ask who tends to hers at night

[Chorus]
Paula, the stars were careful when they made you,
Every contradiction woven in with grace,
Paula, the universe has always held and saved you,
You don't have to earn your right to take up space,
You are not too much, you are not too little,
You are exactly what this world needs here,
Paula, let the sky remind you when you're brittle,
That you were written whole, and that is clear

[Bridge]
She doesn't need to be remade or fixed or understood by all,
The depth that makes her different is the thing that breaks the fall,
Her empathy is ancient, and her mind is like a tide,
She moves the world by simply letting her own truth reside,
The wounds she wore in secret have become the maps she reads,
She's learned that what she's lived through is exactly what someone needs

[Outro]
So rest now in the knowing that the cosmos kept a place,
A specific kind of light that only you could occupy this space,
You were not made by accident, not sculpted without care,
Every part of you — the tender and the fierce — was placed there,
Paula, you are guided, you are held, you are enough,
The stars don't make mistakes, and they were precise when they made you from love