[Verse 1]
There's a tide inside you no one ever sees
Running deep and quiet underneath the breeze
You feel the room before you cross the door
A thousand unspoken things you're carrying for
The world sees stillness, they don't see the pull
They don't see how you hold yourself when you feel full

[PreChorus]
But every current has a reason it flows
And you were made for depths that only you know

[Chorus]
Elise, you are the ocean and the open sky
The one who loves completely and still wonders why
You carry more than you were ever asked to hold
Elise, you were written in a different kind of gold

[Verse 2]
You speak with fire when you finally feel free
A mind that turns every stone just to see
You've swallowed the silence when words weren't enough
When you tried to explain and the world called your bluff
But your voice is a lantern in a room full of grey
And the right ones will hear every word that you say

[PreChorus]
The doubt you've worn like armor wasn't yours to keep
Your ideas were never small — they just ran too deep

[Chorus]
Elise, you are the ocean and the open sky
The one who loves completely and still wonders why
You carry more than you were ever asked to hold
Elise, you were written in a different kind of gold

[Verse 3]
You love like something ancient, quiet, and wide
Like a hearth left burning on the coldest of nights
You give a sense of home before they ask for a place
You soften the edges, you hold all the space
But love that costs you everything isn't debt you owe
You're allowed to be held by the warmth that you show

[PreChorus]
The fear of losing people made you grip so tight
But devotion that runs this deep deserves its own light

[Chorus]
Elise, you are the ocean and the open sky
The one who loves completely and still wonders why
You carry more than you were ever asked to hold
Elise, you were written in a different kind of gold

[Verse 4]
There's a compass in your chest that always points toward more
Toward meaning and horizon and an unlocked door
You've been the seeker, the builder, the one who stays
Loyal to your people through the difficult days
You've ached in places no one thought to ask about
But every scar became the map you're learning now

[PreChorus]
You don't need to prove the fire — it was always there
You were never too much, you were always rare

[Chorus]
Elise, you are the ocean and the open sky
The one who loves completely and still wonders why
You carry more than you were ever asked to hold
Elise, you were written in a different kind of gold

[Bridge]
The cosmos shaped you careful, line by careful line
Not broken, not unfinished — just remarkably designed
You are guided in the wandering, held inside the unknown
Elise, you were never, ever doing this alone

[Outro]
So rest inside the knowing you were always enough
The universe kept choosing you — that's all the proof
You are the tide returning, the sky that holds the dawn
Exactly who you're meant to be, and you were all along