[Verse 1]
There's a current running under everything you show
Still waters on the surface, but a tide no one can know
You see through every layer, read the room before it speaks
You carry more than anyone could ask you to and keep
The ones who only see the calm don't know the depth below
But the ocean always knows itself, no matter what the shore bestows

[PreChorus]
You've worked yourself to worthy and still questioned if it's true
But everything you've built in silence proves exactly what you're due

[Chorus]
Patti, you are woven from the deepest kind of tide
Every scar a river, every wound a compass guide
Patti, all that hidden fire is a lantern, not a cage
You are water and you're mountain, you are holy and you're brave

[Verse 2]
You love like it's a covenant, like something sworn to bone
Not surface-level tenderness but love that burns alone
You've stood beside the ones who hurt you, graceful and composed
Behind the balanced, steady face, a thousand doors stayed closed
But loyalty like yours is ancient, rare as turning stone
And every wall you've ever built has kept you, not alone

[PreChorus]
You've chased the perfect and the pure until your hands were worn
But even unfinished rivers reach the sea they're searching for

[Chorus]
Patti, you are woven from the deepest kind of tide
Every scar a river, every wound a compass guide
Patti, all that hidden fire is a lantern, not a cage
You are water and you're mountain, you are holy and you're brave

[Verse 3]
Your mind moves toward the wide sky and the questions without end
You've always felt at home inside the truth around the bend
The big ideas, the far horizon, meaning carved from wind
A philosopher who tends the hearth and nurtures those within
You've given more than you were asked and asked for far too less
But the world you've kept for everyone was always worth the rest

[PreChorus]
You've carried what you shouldn't have and called it just your way
But the weight you bear for others doesn't have to stay

[Chorus]
Patti, you are woven from the deepest kind of tide
Every scar a river, every wound a compass guide
Patti, all that hidden fire is a lantern, not a cage
You are water and you're mountain, you are holy and you're brave

[Verse 4]
There is something in you older than the stories you've been told
A quiet kind of knowing that was never bought or sold
The healing that you carry for the world begins in you
Let the one who holds everyone be tenderly held too
You are not the sum of what you've proven or achieved
You are the root beneath the tree, the depth of what you've breathed

[PreChorus]
The stars spelled out a soul like yours with careful, certain hands
You don't have to earn your place, you've always had it where you stand

[Bridge]
Let the tide come in and take what you no longer need to hold
You are not the keeper of every story left untold
There is room enough for softness in the marrow of the strong
You were always more than everything you thought you got wrong

[Outro]
Patti, you are guided, you are rooted, you are real
You are everything the quiet of the deep was made to feel