[Verse 1]
There's a tide inside you nobody sees at low water's edge
A dreamer with a spine of iron standing at the ledge
You feel the whole room breathing before anyone speaks
You carry other people's weather through your own long weeks
The world sees the stillness, it doesn't see the pull
Of everything you hold inside to keep the current full

[PreChorus]
But still water runs the deepest, don't you know
And the quietest hearts are the ones that make things grow

[Chorus]
You are the fog before the dawn and the light after rain
You are the kind that turns the wound into something that sustains
The world has always needed what you quietly carry
You are written in the water, ancient, necessary

[Verse 2]
You've fought your battles sideways, through the back door of your care
Protecting everyone you love while standing in the glare
You've poured yourself like offering into hands that didn't know
The depth of what they held in you, the lengths you'd always go
And when the love you gave came back all bent and bruised
You loved again regardless — that is not a thing to lose

[PreChorus]
But still water runs the deepest, don't you know
And the quietest hearts are the ones that make things grow

[Chorus]
You are the fog before the dawn and the light after rain
You are the kind that turns the wound into something that sustains
The world has always needed what you quietly carry
You are written in the water, ancient, necessary

[Verse 3]
Your mind moves like a river finding every hidden crack
You've spoken truth in images when the words refused to track
There's a restlessness in you that isn't broken, it's alive
A current underneath the calm that's helped you more than strive
You've doubted your own brilliance in the silence and the dark
But every soul you've touched still carries fingerprints of your heart

[PreChorus]
But still water runs the deepest, don't you know
And the quietest hearts are the ones that make things grow

[Chorus]
You are the fog before the dawn and the light after rain
You are the kind that turns the wound into something that sustains
The world has always needed what you quietly carry
You are written in the water, ancient, necessary

[Bridge]
You don't have to earn the right to rest inside your own skin
Everything you are right now is where the light gets in
The moon has kept your story safe through every rise and fall
You were always whole enough — you were always enough for it all

[Outro]
So lay your proving down like stones beside the river wide
You are not what you have carried, you are everything inside
The cosmos wrote you carefully with ink that never fades
You were always more than enough — in all your tides and all your waves