[Verse 1]
There's an ocean underneath the calm you show the world
Tides that pull and carry every feeling left unheard
You think in poetry and speak in careful, chosen grace
A mind that holds the whole horizon, heart that holds a place
You've rebuilt your idea of home from what was left behind
And every wall you ever raised was just protection for your mind

[PreChorus]
They see the steady surface, never guess the depth below
But still waters run the truest when they're left to find their flow

[Chorus]
Lesley, you were written in the tides and the turning light
A Cancer heart that carries what the world can't hold at night
You are rooted, you are reaching, you are ancient and you're new
Every storm you've ever weathered made the deepest part of you

[Verse 2]
You love like something handed down through centuries of care
Like a hearth left burning for the ones who need to find you there
You give before you're asked and hold the ones who come undone
But the tenderness you offer others — you deserve some too, not none
You've longed for something steady in a world that wouldn't stay
And the home you kept on building was your softness finding its way

[PreChorus]
Between the longing and the knowing, you have always found your ground
The kind of soul that quietly becomes the place that others found

[Chorus]
Lesley, you were written in the tides and the turning light
A Cancer heart that carries what the world can't hold at night
You are rooted, you are reaching, you are ancient and you're new
Every storm you've ever weathered made the deepest part of you

[Verse 3]
There's a boldness underneath the sensitivity you wear
A quiet kind of ambition burning steady like a flare
You've walked a road less traveled and you've earned what others missed
Every choice you made with courage left a mark that still exists
The truth you've always chased across the borders of your mind
Is the very kind of wisdom that the searching ones will find

[PreChorus]
You were never meant to fit the space that someone else designed
You were always meant to move like water — powerful and wide

[Chorus]
Lesley, you were written in the tides and the turning light
A Cancer heart that carries what the world can't hold at night
You are rooted, you are reaching, you are ancient and you're new
Every storm you've ever weathered made the deepest part of you

[Bridge]
You don't have to earn the love that's always been yours to keep
You don't have to prove your worth to anyone in too deep
The moon has always known your name beneath the Taurus sky
You were mapped before you had the words — and still, the stars aligned

[Outro]
So rest inside the knowing that you are more than enough
The universe was patient — it was building someone tough
Lesley, you have always been exactly who you are
And the world is fuller, warmer, lit a little by your star