[Verse 1]
There's an ocean underneath the calm you show,
A tide that pulls at midnight when nobody knows,
You think in colors others can't quite name,
A heart too wide for any single frame,
You give before they ask, you hold before they fall,
And carry everyone while climbing your own wall

[PreChorus]
They see the surface, graceful and composed,
They don't see the current only you have known

[Chorus]
You are the depth and the flame and the tide,
Lori, you are everything you tried to hide,
Written in the stars with a steady hand,
More whole than you could ever understand

[Verse 2]
You've swallowed words that never found their way,
Explained yourself a thousand times and still felt far away,
But the voice you doubted was the truest one,
A quiet fire burning longer than the sun,
Your love is not a weakness, it's a force that bends,
Like roots that hold the ground through all the seasons' ends

[PreChorus]
You've poured yourself out empty more than once before,
Now the universe is asking you to fill your own core

[Chorus]
You are the depth and the flame and the tide,
Lori, you are everything you tried to hide,
Written in the stars with a steady hand,
More whole than you could ever understand

[Verse 3]
You've rebuilt yourself in silence, bone by bone,
Transformed what broke you into something of your own,
The world you carry in you stretches wide and far,
A seeker and a keeper, a fixed and wandering star,
You don't need to earn your place or prove the weight you bear,
The cosmos carved you carefully with wisdom rare

[PreChorus]
You are not too much, you were never too deep,
You are exactly what this world was meant to keep

[Chorus]
You are the depth and the flame and the tide,
Lori, you are everything you tried to hide,
Written in the stars with a steady hand,
More whole than you could ever understand

[Bridge]
Let the moon that drives you also let you rest,
What you call your burden is your greatest gift,
You were never lost, you were always being led,
Every road a thread the sky already spread

[Outro]
The stars don't write in accident or chance,
They wrote you like a song worth every glance,
You are held, you are known, you are enough,
Lori, you have always been enough