[Verse 1]
She reads the room before she walks inside,
Feels every current that the others hide,
A mind that moves like wind through open doors,
Always curious, always wanting more,
She carries worlds inside a quiet glance,
A soul that thinks too deep to leave to chance,

[PreChorus]
They see the surface, the smile, the steady ground,
They don't see the ocean making all that sound,

[Chorus]
Joanne, you are the tide and the shore,
The one who gives and then gives a little more,
You were written in a language old and true,
The cosmos doesn't make mistakes, and that includes you,

[Verse 2]
She loves like something ancient, slow, and wide,
Builds a home in everyone she holds inside,
Tends to every heart before she tends her own,
Plants the garden, never stops to see what's grown,
There's a softness that she guards behind a wall,
She's afraid that if she lets it breathe it'll fall,

[PreChorus]
But that tenderness she hides is not a crack,
It's the very thing that calls the good things back,

[Chorus]
Joanne, you are the tide and the shore,
The one who gives and then gives a little more,
You were written in a language old and true,
The cosmos doesn't make mistakes, and that includes you,

[Verse 3]
She's been asking if her presence leaves a mark,
Working twice as hard to light a doubting dark,
Every scar she carries turned into a key,
Every wound a doorway to who she was born to be,
She's descended into shadows, came back with the light,
That's not weakness, that's a woman who has learned to fight,

[PreChorus]
The roots go deeper than the eye can ever see,
She's already everything she's trying hard to be,

[Chorus]
Joanne, you are the tide and the shore,
The one who gives and then gives a little more,
You were written in a language old and true,
The cosmos doesn't make mistakes, and that includes you,

[Verse 4]
She's a lifelong seeker, chasing meaning far,
Collecting other people's stories like the stars,
There's a calling written somewhere in her bones,
To stand for something, let her vision lead her home,
She doesn't need to fix the world to be enough,
She already holds the light inside the rough,

[PreChorus]
Permission to put down the weight of proving worth,
She was already rare the moment she touched earth,

[Chorus]
Joanne, you are the tide and the shore,
The one who gives and then gives a little more,
You were written in a language old and true,
The cosmos doesn't make mistakes, and that includes you,

[Bridge]
Rest in what you are, not what you've done,
You don't have to earn your place beneath the sun,
Every thread that made you hard to understand,
Was the universe just doing something grand,

[Outro]
You are guided, you are held, you are enough,
Joanne, the sky has always known your name,
And nothing that you've carried, lost, or loved,
Was ever, ever wasted — it all became,