[Verse 1]
There's an ocean underneath the calm you wear,
Tides that pull in every direction, and you learn not to scare
The ones who need your steady hand, your measured grace,
While something ancient churns beneath your practiced face
You carry what the room can't hold, you always have,
A tenderness so guarded it became your craft

[PreChorus]
They see the surface, still and sure,
They don't see what you've had to endure

[Chorus]
You are the tide that holds the shore in place,
The moon that moves the water, quiet force and grace,
The depth they never measured, the roots they never found,
You are the kind of soul that turns the lost around

[Verse 2]
You've built your worth from what you gave and what you did,
Kept the broken pieces of yourself carefully hid
That hunger to be useful, to be seen and to belong,
Has cost you more than anyone should pay to feel strong
But every wall you ever built was also made of care,
And the fact that you kept standing is the proof that you were there

[PreChorus]
The world outside won't always know your name,
But the lives you've touched remember all the same

[Chorus]
You are the tide that holds the shore in place,
The moon that moves the water, quiet force and grace,
The depth they never measured, the roots they never found,
You are the kind of soul that turns the lost around

[Verse 3]
You love like something old and sure, a covenant, a vow,
You give before you're asked and rarely take the bow
You've longed for love returned with equal measure, equal heat,
And learned the hard way hearts take time before they're complete
But the loyalty you carry, it was never yours to prove,
You were already whole before you had a single thing to lose

[PreChorus]
The cosmos didn't write you carelessly or small,
Every part of you was meant, the rise, the pause, the fall

[Chorus]
You are the tide that holds the shore in place,
The moon that moves the water, quiet force and grace,
The depth they never measured, the roots they never found,
You are the kind of soul that turns the lost around

[Bridge]
The shadow and the light in you were never opposites,
They're two hands of the same clock, and both of them belong
You don't need to earn your place or justify what lives in you,
The universe already knows — and it has all along

[Outro]
So rest inside the truth of what you are,
Not a wound still healing, but a quiet, steady star,
You were written in the deep before the world had words,
And everything you carry — every bit of it — deserves