[Verse 1]
There's a tide beneath the stillness that you carry every day,
An ocean full of feeling that you've learned to hide away,
You tend to everyone around you like a garden in the rain,
And fold your own heart quietly when nobody calls your name,
You've always been the shelter, always been the steady ground,
The one who holds the room together without making a sound,

[PreChorus]
But all that depth inside you isn't weakness, isn't weight,
It's the whole of who you are, and it is nothing short of great,

[Chorus]
Elissa, you were written by the tide and by the stone,
A Cancer soul with ancient roots and fire all your own,
You are the calm, you are the current, you are the rising shore,
You don't have to keep on proving what you were born for,

[Verse 2]
You think in feelings first, in memory and light,
Your mind moves like a poem finding meaning in the night,
You've wrestled with the longing just to finally be heard,
To speak and have someone receive the truth behind the word,
That ache to be understood, it shaped the way you see,
And turned a quiet wound into your greatest empathy,

[PreChorus]
The voice you've been afraid to trust has never led you wrong,
What they couldn't hear in you was never proof you don't belong,

[Chorus]
Elissa, you were written by the tide and by the stone,
A Cancer soul with ancient roots and fire all your own,
You are the calm, you are the current, you are the rising shore,
You don't have to keep on proving what you were born for,

[Verse 3]
You love like something ancient, like a letter sent by hand,
Like you'd cross a thousand rivers just to help someone to stand,
But somewhere in that giving you forgot to take your turn,
You gave away the warmth so freely, never stopped to burn,
The world you dream of building, it begins inside your chest,
And the truest road toward meaning starts with giving yourself rest,

[PreChorus]
You are not the sum of all you've done or all you've had to mend,
You are something far more vast than where your edges end,

[Chorus]
Elissa, you were written by the tide and by the stone,
A Cancer soul with ancient roots and fire all your own,
You are the calm, you are the current, you are the rising shore,
You don't have to keep on proving what you were born for,

[Bridge]
The cosmos held its breath the night it carefully made you,
Every scar became a compass, every loss a wider view,
There's a purpose in the marrow of the life that you have lived,
And the world still needs the depth of everything you have to give,

[Outro]
So rest inside the wholeness of exactly who you are,
You were never lost, Elissa, you were always the north star,