[Verse 1]
She carries the whole ocean underneath her skin
A tide that pulls for everyone but rarely turns within
She thinks in feeling first, then finds the words for it
Her heart so wide and deep, there's no edge and no limit
She's built a world worth having from the ground up slow
The kind of roots that hold you even when the cold winds blow

[PreChorus]
They see the stillness, not the current running strong
They see the warmth, not how long she's held on

[Chorus]
Carol, you were written in the water and the light
Cancer born and Cancer-souled and steady through the night
Carol, every tide you've turned has led you to this shore
You don't have to earn your place — you've always been worth more

[Verse 2]
She loves like a long conversation with no end in sight
She needs both room to wander and a hand to hold at night
She gives before she's asked and listens past the words
She gathers all the broken things that no one else has heard
But underneath that giving is a woman who needs too
Someone brilliant, someone true, who sees the whole of you

[PreChorus]
She's earned her way through every room she's ever graced
She carries hard-won wisdom at a quiet pace

[Chorus]
Carol, you were written in the water and the light
Cancer born and Cancer-souled and steady through the night
Carol, every tide you've turned has led you to this shore
You don't have to earn your place — you've always been worth more

[Verse 3]
She's carried what the world has asked and never made it small
She turned each weight to wisdom, turned each stumble to a call
Her mind is vast and restless, never satisfied with less
Than the truth behind the truth, the meaning past the guess
And when she doubts her spark or hides the parts that shine
The universe leans close and says — that light was always mine

[PreChorus]
She's not too much, she's not too soft, she's not too late
She is precisely, fully, who she came here to create

[Chorus]
Carol, you were written in the water and the light
Cancer born and Cancer-souled and steady through the night
Carol, every tide you've turned has led you to this shore
You don't have to earn your place — you've always been worth more

[Bridge]
The things you've held in silence have a name and they are courage
Every time you stayed when leaving felt like the only door
You were never too much feeling — you were the feeling
The cosmos wrote you carefully and loves what it made, Carol

[Outro]
So rest now in the knowing, let the current carry you
You are guided, you are rooted, you are finally through
Everything you've given the world will find its way back home
Carol, you were never, not for one breath, alone