[Verse 1]
There's an ocean underneath the words you say,
A current running deep beneath the everyday,
You feel the whole room shift before they speak,
Absorbing every wave, the strong, the worn, the weak,
The world calls you gentle, doesn't see the undertow,
The fathoms inside you most will never know

[PreChorus]
But you've learned to translate every ache to art,
You've always carried more than fits inside one heart

[Chorus]
James, you are the tide and the shore,
The question and the answer, the wound and the cure,
Everything you carry was written in your bones,
James, you were never lost, you were always going home

[Verse 2]
Your mind moves like mercury and moonlight combined,
Ten conversations living at the back of your mind,
You reach for the feeling but you map it in words,
The most honest things you've said were only halfway heard,
Still you show up soft, still you lead with the truth,
That kind of courage doesn't ask for proof

[PreChorus]
You've worn your sensitivity like a second skin,
Not a weakness, but the door that lets the light back in

[Chorus]
James, you are the tide and the shore,
The question and the answer, the wound and the cure,
Everything you carry was written in your bones,
James, you were never lost, you were always going home

[Verse 3]
You love like something ancient, patient, and wide,
A slow-burning fire you keep mostly inside,
You test the ground before you let yourself fall,
Because you know the cost of giving someone all,
But once you trust, you give without a clock or a line,
That kind of devotion is a rare, rare find

[PreChorus]
The home you're building isn't made of walls or stone,
It's built from every time you chose to not be alone

[Chorus]
James, you are the tide and the shore,
The question and the answer, the wound and the cure,
Everything you carry was written in your bones,
James, you were never lost, you were always going home

[Verse 4]
You've wrestled with belonging, with your place in the line,
Wondering if the effort would ever match the design,
But the things you thought were breaking you were shaping the frame,
Every time you rose from the ashes you remembered your name,
The world needs what you carry, the vision, the care,
The rare kind of soul that still believes things are fair

[PreChorus]
You are someone the cosmos chose to write with care,
A soul too deep for simple words, too real for thin air

[Bridge]
Let the stars confirm what you've always almost known,
That everything you've been through was meant to bring you home,
The ache was not a flaw, it was the making of you,
You are enough, you always were, all the way through

[Outro]
James, the tide is turning in your favor now,
The light was always yours, you're just remembering how,
You were written carefully, with ink that never fades,
You are enough, exactly as you are, always