[Verse 1]
There's a tide inside you nobody gets to see,
A depth that runs like ocean underneath your easy
A mind that never settles, always turning over stone,
You carry whole worlds in you, even when you're all alone
They see the warmth you offer, but not how much it costs,
They see you holding lanterns, never knowing you feel lost

[PreChorus]
But every current that pulls you under
Has been building something stronger

[Chorus]
You are the water and the shore, Nikki,
You are the quiet and the roar
Written in the tide, held by something more
You are enough, you've always been enough before

[Verse 2]
You love like it's a covenant, like home is what you make,
You build a fire for everyone and forget your own heartache
You speak through feeling first, your words arrive like rain,
Gentle on the surface, soaking deep into the grain
There's a wound around your voice, around being truly heard,
But every time you speak your truth, the world leans toward your words

[PreChorus]
Every silence you have swallowed
Becomes the wisdom you've been offered

[Chorus]
You are the water and the shore, Nikki,
You are the quiet and the roar
Written in the tide, held by something more
You are enough, you've always been enough before

[Verse 3]
You've carried weight in secret, in the marrow of the night,
Transformed so many times by now you've forgotten all your old fights
There's a restlessness that moves you like an arrow leaving string,
Something in you always knows there's more becoming left to bring
You long for what is real and deep, connection without seams,
A love that doesn't ask you to abandon all your dreams

[PreChorus]
And everything you've walked through, every ember,
Is proof of how you rise, how you remember

[Chorus]
You are the water and the shore, Nikki,
You are the quiet and the roar
Written in the tide, held by something more
You are enough, you've always been enough before

[Verse 4]
You were built to leave a mark that outlasts what they see,
Not by shrinking to fit the room but by becoming free
You don't need every answer or a perfectly mapped road,
The compass lives inside you, you have always known the code
Let yourself be tended like the fire you tend for all,
The universe wrote you carefully — it didn't make you small

[PreChorus]
So rest now in the knowing, stop the proving,
Something ancient has been moving you

[Chorus]
You are the water and the shore, Nikki,
You are the quiet and the roar
Written in the tide, held by something more
You are enough, you've always been enough before

[Bridge]
You don't have to earn the right to take up space,
The stars were set in motion just to light your face
What you carry isn't burden, it's the gift they'll someday name,
You were never lost, you were always on the way

[Outro]
So let the tide come in and let it hold you,
You are every beautiful thing the dark foretold you
The cosmos wrote your name before you had a voice,
And it has never once regretted that choice