[Verse 1]
There's a fire in you that learned to hold its ground,
A voice that carried wisdom before it made a sound,
You read the room before a single word is said,
You carry whole worlds quietly inside your head,
The warmth you give so freely comes from somewhere deep,
A lion who has learned which promises to keep.

[PreChorus]
You've spent so long translating who you are to everyone,
But you were always whole before the proving was begun.

[Chorus]
Mariann, you are the light and the tide,
The searcher and the keeper of the fire inside,
You don't need another horizon to find your worth,
You were written in the cosmos long before your birth.

[Verse 2]
You love like shelter, like a hand that stays through rain,
You give before you're asked and still you hold the pain,
The walls you've built aren't cold, they're carved from knowing well,
That some things are too sacred and too real to tell,
You've poured yourself in silence into everything you've made,
And every tender corner holds the price that you have paid.

[PreChorus]
The ones who only see the surface never see the sea,
But everything you've carried is the making of what you'll be.

[Chorus]
Mariann, you are the light and the tide,
The searcher and the keeper of the fire inside,
You don't need another horizon to find your worth,
You were written in the cosmos long before your birth.

[Verse 3]
There's a hunger in you reaching past the edge of what you know,
A compass always pointing somewhere further, somewhere whole,
You've questioned every doctrine till you found your own belief,
You've walked through transformation and you've come out past the grief,
Your mind's a living archive of the questions worth the asking,
A truth-seeker behind the calm, a deeper current threading.

[PreChorus]
The way you search for meaning is the meaning all along,
The road itself has always been the place where you belong.

[Chorus]
Mariann, you are the light and the tide,
The searcher and the keeper of the fire inside,
You don't need another horizon to find your worth,
You were written in the cosmos long before your birth.

[Verse 4]
They see the calm composure, they don't see what it cost,
The early-morning discipline, the sleep sometimes you've lost,
You feared your voice might scatter and be missed in all the noise,
But every word you've ever meant has carried more than poise,
You've rebuilt what was broken with a steady, patient hand,
And the home you've made of your own life is more than you had planned.

[PreChorus]
You never needed fixing, you were forging all along,
What they called your heaviness was just the weight of being strong.

[Chorus]
Mariann, you are the light and the tide,
The searcher and the keeper of the fire inside,
You don't need another horizon to find your worth,
You were written in the cosmos long before your birth.

[Bridge]
Let the stars confirm what you have always almost known,
Every scar a kind of compass, every crack a way you've grown,
You were never lost, you were becoming something true,
The universe was careful when it made someone like you.

[Outro]
So rest now in the knowing that you've always been enough,
Mariann, the light holds you the same as you hold us.