[Verse 1]
Carla, you were built from the cold and the patient ground
From the kind of quiet that holds its shape without making a sound
You don't chase what's easy, you lay down stone by stone
Every wall you've raised is a world you've made your own
There's a fire in you that doesn't flare, it burns slow and true
The kind that outlasts every storm and everyone who doubted you
You've been the one who stayed when staying cost you something real
You know the weight of what you carry and you still choose to feel
[PreChorus 1]
But beneath that steady surface runs a current wild and deep
There are oceans in you, Carla, that the world has yet to see
[Chorus]
You are the mountain and the river, you are the still before the break
You hold a thousand quiet futures trembling just awake
Not every light burns bright — some burn long and sure
And the ones who build the slowest are the ones who endure
Carla, you were made for more than you've allowed yourself to claim
The stars leaned in and watched you, and they whispered out your name
[Verse 2]
You love like a promise, not a feeling — like a lock and like a key
You don't give yourself away to just anyone who says they see
But when you open up that door it's not a door at all
It's a whole cathedral, Carla, every corridor and hall
You've been burned by what you trusted, by the ones who took your depth
And turned it into something small — you swallowed it like breath
But the ones who tried to dim you only showed you what you knew
That the love worth keeping, Carla, is the love that's worthy of you
[PreChorus 2]
There are visions in your thinking that most people never find
You speak in pictures, you dream in proof — there's prophecy in your mind
[Chorus]
You are the mountain and the river, you are the still before the break
You hold a thousand quiet futures trembling just awake
Not every light burns bright — some burn long and sure
And the ones who build the slowest are the ones who endure
Carla, you were made for more than you've allowed yourself to claim
The stars leaned in and watched you, and they whispered out your name
[Verse 3]
You've always had a vision wider than the room you've been inside
A pull toward something bigger, like a tide that can't decide
Not restless — purposeful — the way a season turns and knows
That winter doesn't doubt itself, it trusts that something grows
You've worn your strength so long it's started feeling like a mask
But letting someone carry you is not too much to ask
The work you do in silence, the way you hold the line
Is a kind of love for all of us — and Carla, that's divine
[PreChorus 3]
You're not done becoming, you're not late, you're right on time
There's a version of you waiting at the summit of the climb
[Chorus]
You are the mountain and the river, you are the still before the break
You hold a thousand quiet futures trembling just awake
Not every light burns bright — some burn long and sure
And the ones who build the slowest are the ones who endure
Carla, you were made for more than you've allowed yourself to claim
The stars leaned in and watched you, and they whispered out your name
[Verse 4]
Something in you knows the old way doesn't fit the way it did
Like a door that swung on old hinges — you've already slid
Into a threshold you don't have a name for yet, but feel
The in-between of who you were and what's becoming real
You've spent so long as the one who holds, the one who sees it through
That you forgot there's also joy in letting something new find you
Carla, lay your armor down — not all the way, just some
You've already done the hardest part — the arrival is to come
[Bridge]
You were never meant to be a footnote in someone else's song
You were always the composer, you just carried it too long
Every careful choice, every night you built something alone
Was a brick in something permanent — a place you'll call your home
[Outro]
Carla, you are patient — but the patient always see
What the hurried leave behind them, what the faithful come to be
The road was always yours, every stone beneath your feet
You didn't lose the long game, Carla — you just haven't claimed your seat