## Metadata
**Caption:** orchestral pop ballad, sweeping strings, tender, sentimental, 75 bpm, female vocal
**BPM:** 80
**Duration:** 150.0s
**Key:** D major
**Time Signature:** 3

## Lyrics
[verse]
I walked in young, unsure of what I'd be
You saw a future I could barely see
The chalkboard nights, the lessons hard and slow
Taught me the roads I never used to know

[chorus]
So here's my gratitude, plain and true
A grown-up heart says thank you, sir, to you
For patience given when I couldn't cope
For handing me the compass and the hope

[verse]
Now the halls are empty, and the bell has rung
I'm someone different from the girl who'd come
Unsteady, quiet, scared of every test
You saw the best in me before the rest

[chorus]
So here's my gratitude, plain and true
A grown-up heart says thank you, sir, to you
For patience given when I couldn't cope
For handing me the compass and the hope

[bridge]
How do you measure what a teacher gave
The quiet courage, steady as a wave
No gift could ever pay a debt so deep
Just this small song, a promise I will keep

[chorus]
So here's my gratitude, plain and true
A grown-up heart says thank you, sir, to you
For patience given when I couldn't cope
For handing me the compass and the hope