[Verse 1]
There's a tide beneath the quiet you wear so well
An ocean of feeling you don't always let them tell
You move through the world like the shoreline knows the sea
Holding everyone's weight while you drift where no one sees
You built the walls yourself, every stone placed with care
Not to keep the world out — just to show that you were there

[PreChorus]
But the deepest water isn't empty, it's alive
And everything you carry is the reason you survive

[Chorus]
Sarah, you're the calm before and after the storm
You are ancient in your knowing, you are endlessly warm
You don't have to keep the whole tide pressed against your chest
You were written in the stars and, darling, you are blessed

[Verse 2]
You love like someone quietly memorizing hands
Remembering the small things no one asked you to understand
You give before they call you, you show up before they ask
But underneath the giving is a wound they've never asked
Not broken — just a current that has run a little long
Every ache a line of evidence of just how much you're strong

[PreChorus]
You were never meant to earn your place inside this life
You were worthy from the moment you drew breath through all the strife

[Chorus]
Sarah, you're the calm before and after the storm
You are ancient in your knowing, you are endlessly warm
You don't have to keep the whole tide pressed against your chest
You were written in the stars and, darling, you are blessed

[Verse 3]
You crave a love that's honest, something solid, something real
Not the dream of it but the texture, something only truth can feel
You see through what is hollow with a clarity that stings
Your mind moves like a river through the weight of hidden things
They see precision, they don't see the vision underneath
The way your thoughts are burning like a fire in its sheath

[PreChorus]
You were never meant to make yourself smaller to be seen
You are not the role they cast you in — you know what you can mean

[Chorus]
Sarah, you're the calm before and after the storm
You are ancient in your knowing, you are endlessly warm
You don't have to keep the whole tide pressed against your chest
You were written in the stars and, darling, you are blessed

[Verse 4]
The roots you carry go below the ground that you can name
Ancestral and aching but they don't define your flame
You've done the quiet healing that nobody hands a crown
You've turned your deepest unrest into something that won't drown
The world receives you gently even when you doubt it will
There's a compass pointing homeward and it's turning in you still

[PreChorus]
You don't need the world to see you to know the light is real
What the cosmos wrote in you no hand can break or steal

[Chorus]
Sarah, you're the calm before and after the storm
You are ancient in your knowing, you are endlessly warm
You don't have to keep the whole tide pressed against your chest
You were written in the stars and, darling, you are blessed

[Bridge]
You are held by something older than the questions that you keep
You are more than all the vigils you have chosen not to sleep
Let the tide come in and carry what you no longer need
You were always, always enough — you were always, always free

[Outro]
So rest now in the knowing that the moon has always known
Every shore you've loved and left has led you back to home
The stars did not make you broken — they made you wide and true
Sarah, the whole sky leaned in carefully when it made you