[Verse 1]
There's a restlessness that lives behind your eyes,
A mind that chases every distant horizon and sky,
You give your hands to healing, your hours to care,
But no one ever asks what's breaking underneath there,
You've held so many pieces of the lives you mend,
A quiet kind of faithful that doesn't know how to bend

[PreChorus]
But the fire that keeps you searching is the fire that makes you whole,
There's an arrow at the center of your soul

[Chorus]
Joy, you are the archer and the open road,
A universe too wide for what they think they know,
Beneath the calm you carry is a tide that never sleeps,
Joy, you are exactly as profound as you are deep

[Verse 2]
You love like someone unafraid of the strange and new,
You'd rather be authentic than be easy to construe,
Friendship is the altar where your truest feelings live,
And you pour from wells you've never stopped to ask if you should give,
You've stood inside the wreckage of what closeness costs,
And learned that love worth keeping isn't love that's never lost

[PreChorus]
The wound that lives in waiting is the teacher you outgrew,
The one who said you weren't enough was never telling the truth

[Chorus]
Joy, you are the archer and the open road,
A universe too wide for what they think they know,
Beneath the calm you carry is a tide that never sleeps,
Joy, you are exactly as profound as you are deep

[Verse 3]
You've built your roots in shifting ground and still you found a way,
To carry something ancient into every ordinary day,
There's a tension between freedom and the walls you've had to face,
Between the self you are alone and who you are in someone's embrace,
That push and pull isn't a flaw written into your bones,
It's the signature of someone who has earned what she has known

[PreChorus]
The world won't hold your measure and the stars already do,
What you've carried as a burden is the rarest part of you

[Chorus]
Joy, you are the archer and the open road,
A universe too wide for what they think they know,
Beneath the calm you carry is a tide that never sleeps,
Joy, you are exactly as profound as you are deep

[Bridge]
You don't need to be seen to know your own light is real,
Every truth you've spoken cost you something, that's the deal,
You were written in the kind of ink that doesn't fade with time,
The cosmos didn't rush you and you're right on time

[Outro]
Rest inside the knowing that you've always been enough,
You were made for meaning, not for shrinking when it's tough,
Joy, let the arrow fly and trust where it lands,
You are held by more than you will ever understand