[Verse 1]
There's a tide that runs beneath the calm you show,
A current pulling deep where few are asked to go,
You carry what you feel like water in your hands,
And build your life like something meant to stand,
The world sees steady ground, it doesn't see the weight,
The years of learning how to hold before it's late

[PreChorus]
But everything you've carried made you who you are,
Every quiet ache became a compass, became a star

[Chorus]
Ronnie, you were written in the pull of the sea,
In the fire of a heart that loves so fiercely and free,
The sky mapped out a soul too layered to name,
And the world is richer, softer, brighter, you came

[Verse 2]
You speak and something in the room begins to shift,
Your words land like they carry more than just their gift,
You've always seen the angle that the others miss,
The hidden thread beneath the ordinary twist,
A mind that doesn't rest until the truth is bare,
And a loyalty so steady it becomes a prayer

[PreChorus]
You've loved like something ancient without asking why,
You've given more than most would dare beneath an open sky

[Chorus]
Ronnie, you were written in the pull of the sea,
In the fire of a heart that loves so fiercely and free,
The sky mapped out a soul too layered to name,
And the world is richer, softer, brighter, you came

[Verse 3]
You've known the kind of silence that lives under pride,
The years you held together what was breaking inside,
That hunger to be seen for what you truly bring,
Not the surface but the marrow, not the shell but the spring,
You've doubted in the dark if all your effort's enough,
But doubt was never weakness — it was love wearing rough

[PreChorus]
The ones who feel this deeply are the ones who hold the light,
You were never too much, you were always built right

[Chorus]
Ronnie, you were written in the pull of the sea,
In the fire of a heart that loves so fiercely and free,
The sky mapped out a soul too layered to name,
And the world is richer, softer, brighter, you came

[Verse 4]
There's a generosity in you that moves before it's asked,
A warmth that finds the stranger and the weary and the cracked,
You've walked the long road quietly without needing the stage,
But your story has been building like the turning of an age,
The roots go down so far they reach what cannot be undone,
And everything you've planted still grows toward the sun

[PreChorus]
You don't have to earn your place — you have always belonged,
The universe kept watch and carried you along

[Chorus]
Ronnie, you were written in the pull of the sea,
In the fire of a heart that loves so fiercely and free,
The sky mapped out a soul too layered to name,
And the world is richer, softer, brighter, you came

[Bridge]
You are not the sum of everything you couldn't hold,
You are every tender thing that kept you brave and whole,
There is no version of this life that doesn't need you here,
Exactly as you are — exactly, right now, right here

[Outro]
The tides come in, the tides go out, but you remain,
Every scar a testament, not a stain,
You were made with care, with depth, with sacred design,
Ronnie, every star they placed in you — it still shines