[Verse 1]
You hold the tide inside your chest where no one else can see,
A current running fathoms deep beneath your clarity,
You read the room before you speak, you feel it in your bones,
You carry more than anyone could guess from what you've shown,
The stillness that you wear like skin is not the whole of you,
There's an ocean underneath that calm you've learned to move through

[PreChorus]
The world sees order, sees the careful line you hold,
But you were built for depths that can't be bought or sold

[Chorus]
Michelle, you are the tide and the shore,
The quiet and the storm at the core,
Every wave that breaks was meant to be,
Michelle, you were written by the sea

[Verse 2]
You love like something that decided long before the start,
You don't do surface-level — it's all or nothing, heart to heart,
You've learned to lock the door before the flood could reach the floor,
But what they call your walls, I call a love worth waiting for,
You give before you're asked and still you wonder if it's enough,
That isn't weakness, that's the rarest, most remarkable stuff

[PreChorus]
You built yourself on duty and on things that last,
But you were not made only for the present and the past

[Chorus]
Michelle, you are the tide and the shore,
The quiet and the storm at the core,
Every wave that breaks was meant to be,
Michelle, you were written by the sea

[Verse 3]
Your mind moves like a current through the cracks of every plan,
You see the flaw, the fix, the better way before it's scanned,
That restless ache for purpose isn't something to outrun,
It's the compass that has always known the direction of your sun,
You've asked if you were too much, or perhaps not quite enough,
The answer is: you're exactly right, and always have been, love

[PreChorus]
The path has asked for patience, asked for trust through every turn,
But every mile you've walked has been a lantern that you've earned

[Chorus]
Michelle, you are the tide and the shore,
The quiet and the storm at the core,
Every wave that breaks was meant to be,
Michelle, you were written by the sea

[Verse 4]
The universe inscribed you with a carefully chosen hand,
A Pisces heart, a Virgo rising, sea meeting sand,
You were born between the dreaming and the need to make things right,
A healer who forgets to tend the keeper of the light,
So rest without apology, let someone hold the shore,
You don't have to earn your place — you've always been worth more

[PreChorus]
The stars did not mistake you, did not build you incomplete,
You are the grace that holds the ground beneath the world's heartbeat

[Chorus]
Michelle, you are the tide and the shore,
The quiet and the storm at the core,
Every wave that breaks was meant to be,
Michelle, you were written by the sea

[Bridge]
You don't have to fix everything to matter here,
Your presence is the kind that makes the broken feel less fear,
The cosmos held its breath and then it made you — slow and true,
There is no one else who carries what was meant for you

[Outro]
So go gently, go boldly, go as only you know how,
Michelle, the sea has always known you — and it knows you now