[Verse 1]
She carries the whole tide but keeps the shore so still,
A quiet kind of knowing that runs against the will,
She feels the world before it speaks, reads the space between,
The deepest water in the room and no one knows the depth they've seen,
She shows up warm and steady while her inner ocean roars,
A lighthouse holding everyone while she tends her own shores

[PreChorus]
There's a fire dressed in softness, a hunger wrapped in grace,
A whole universe of feeling living underneath that face

[Chorus]
Teresa, you were written in the tide and in the flame,
Every wave that shaped you carved the glory in your name,
You are ancient, you are tender, you are more than you have shown,
Teresa, you have always been exactly right at home

[Verse 2]
She wonders if her worth is earned or simply given free,
She's worked so hard to prove herself to who she used to be,
But every scar she's carried held a lesson, not a flaw,
Every wall she built around her heart was also what she saw,
She loves like something written long before the world began,
Deep and unconditional, not bound by any plan

[PreChorus]
She's building something permanent on grounds she couldn't name,
But steady hands and patient hearts will always find their claim

[Chorus]
Teresa, you were written in the tide and in the flame,
Every wave that shaped you carved the glory in your name,
You are ancient, you are tender, you are more than you have shown,
Teresa, you have always been exactly right at home

[Verse 3]
She thinks in poems, follows truth through some invisible thread,
She processes the whole of life through everything she's read,
There's a hunger in her spirit for a meaning past the veil,
A wanderer who questions but was never meant to fail,
She's the one who holds the room while falling quietly inside,
A generous, relentless heart that never learned to hide

[PreChorus]
The world she wants to build is one where every soul is known,
She never needs to shrink herself to make that vision shown

[Chorus]
Teresa, you were written in the tide and in the flame,
Every wave that shaped you carved the glory in your name,
You are ancient, you are tender, you are more than you have shown,
Teresa, you have always been exactly right at home

[Verse 4]
She came to learn that being is enough without the proof,
That her presence is the offering, her wholeness is the truth,
The way she loves is rare and wide and doesn't ask for walls,
She rises not despite the weight she carries but because of all,
The cosmos did not carve her from an ordinary stone,
She is tide and fire, dream and root — she never walks alone

[PreChorus]
Let the current carry what she cannot hold today,
The map was written in her bones before she found her way

[Bridge]
She doesn't need to earn the light — she is the source it came from,
Everything she ever gave is what she has become,
The depth in her is not a wound, it is a well of grace,
And she was never lost — she was just learning her own place

[Outro]
Teresa, you were written where the ocean meets the sun,
Ancient soul, tender heart — the story has begun,
You are enough, you always were, before a word was done