[Verse 1]
There's a fire in the way you think and move and speak,
A mind that strikes like lightning, landing fast and deep,
You carry questions bigger than the room you're standing in,
A hunger for the truth beneath the surface of things,
They see the spark, they don't see the searching underneath,
The whole horizon burning just to find what you believe

[PreChorus]
You feel everything at once and hold it close and still,
An ocean under pressure, bending but it never spills

[Chorus]
Shireen, you are the flame and the tide,
The quiet and the thunder living side by side,
Written in the deep where the wild currents run,
You are ancient and becoming all at once

[Verse 2]
You love like something fearless, like you've nothing left to lose,
You dive before the water's warm and feel your way through bruise,
They call it too much, too fast, too honest and too bold,
But that's just how it looks when someone loves with their whole soul,
You build your walls in silence where the deepest hurts are stored,
Then soften when you're ready, and that takes more strength than swords

[PreChorus]
You've ached to find your worth in what your hands can build and give,
But you were always whole before you proved a thing to live

[Chorus]
Shireen, you are the flame and the tide,
The quiet and the thunder living side by side,
Written in the deep where the wild currents run,
You are ancient and becoming all at once

[Verse 3]
There's a vision in you wider than the life that you've been shown,
A compass pulling forward to a truth you've always known,
You've worn the weight of others like a coat you can't put down,
And somewhere in the carrying, you've nearly lost the ground,
But every threshold crossed has been a teaching in disguise,
The hardest roads have handed you the most unclouded eyes

[PreChorus]
The universe did not write you lightly or by chance,
Every scar's a stitch in something too precise to be called chance

[Chorus]
Shireen, you are the flame and the tide,
The quiet and the thunder living side by side,
Written in the deep where the wild currents run,
You are ancient and becoming all at once

[Bridge]
You don't have to earn the right to rest inside your own skin,
The world needs what you carry, let the softness back in,
There's a wisdom in your wandering, a grace in who you are,
You were mapped before you drew your breath among the stars

[Outro]
So burn, beloved, steady and bright,
You are the depth, you are the light,
Shireen, you were always enough,
You were always, always enough