[Verse 1]
There's a tide inside that never settles still,
A current running deeper than the world can feel,
You carry oceans underneath a quiet face,
A universe of feeling in a private space,
They see the calm, they never see the undertow,
All that ancient water with nowhere left to go,

[PreChorus]
You've been holding it together since before you knew,
Pouring into everyone and saving none for you,

[Chorus]
C.J., you were written in the water and the light,
Born between the dreaming and the turning of the tide,
C.J., every depth you carry is a gift, not a weight,
You are whole, you are held, you are not too late,

[Verse 2]
Your mind moves like a current through uncharted ground,
Connecting all the pieces that the others haven't found,
You see the world a little wider, think a little far,
A quiet kind of visionary, knowing what things are,
Sometimes the fire in you pushes past the words,
But the boldest truths are often the ones that must be heard,

[PreChorus]
You've been earning what should just be yours to claim,
Learning how to trust the light that carries your own name,

[Chorus]
C.J., you were written in the water and the light,
Born between the dreaming and the turning of the tide,
C.J., every depth you carry is a gift, not a weight,
You are whole, you are held, you are not too late,

[Verse 3]
You love like something rooted, slow to open wide,
But once you do, there's nothing that you'd hold inside,
Not the soft kind, not the easy, not the kind that fades,
The kind that builds its shelter through the longest days,
You've been learning that a heart like yours deserves the same,
Someone steady in the doorway, someone who remains,

[PreChorus]
The world needs what you carry, don't let silence win,
There is purpose in the places you have always been,

[Chorus]
C.J., you were written in the water and the light,
Born between the dreaming and the turning of the tide,
C.J., every depth you carry is a gift, not a weight,
You are whole, you are held, you are not too late,

[Verse 4]
You've crossed through rooms that no one knew were hard to cross,
You've transformed every silence into something that was lost,
The wounds you carry quietly became a kind of sight,
A way of seeing others struggling in the night,
That tenderness you almost hid is where your power lives,
The deepest rivers always have the most to give,

[PreChorus]
You don't have to earn your place or prove you're worth the sky,
The cosmos wrote you carefully, and didn't ask you why,

[Chorus]
C.J., you were written in the water and the light,
Born between the dreaming and the turning of the tide,
C.J., every depth you carry is a gift, not a weight,
You are whole, you are held, you are not too late,

[Bridge]
The path was never straight but it was always yours,
Something in you knew the way before you knew the words,
You are not the sum of all the times you fell apart,
You are everything that rose again and chose to start,

[Outro]
So rest now in the knowing you were never lost at sea,
You were always the horizon, you were always free,