[Verse 1]
There's an ocean underneath the calm you show
A tide that pulls in ways that few will ever know
You love like shelter, like a door left open wide
But carry every question like a secret kept inside
Your mind moves fast through feeling, lands on truths unspoken
The gentlest kind of fierce — so whole, yet always open

[PreChorus]
They see the steady surface, never guess the depth below
But the current doing the real work is the part that helps you grow

[Chorus]
You are the tide and the shore and the in between
The most quietly extraordinary thing they've ever seen
Every wave you've weathered wrote you stronger than before
You don't need to prove a thing — you were enough before

[Verse 2]
You've given comfort out like bread before you fed yourself
And searched for worth in mirrors when it lived inside your chest
The world in you is wide enough to hold a thousand skies
But you've learned to second-guess the gifts you carry in disguise
That ache of not belonging — it was never yours to keep
It was just the price of feeling everything this deep

[PreChorus]
What you thought was your undoing was your depth beginning
Every doubt you ever wrestled with was training for your winning

[Chorus]
You are the tide and the shore and the in between
The most quietly extraordinary thing they've ever seen
Every wave you've weathered wrote you stronger than before
You don't need to prove a thing — you were enough before

[Verse 3]
You were built for the horizon, for the questions, for the road
For the kind of love that carries what the other cannot hold
There's a restlessness in you that maps uncharted ground
A philosopher, a healer, always listening for sound
You came here wired different — that was never a mistake
That fire that keeps moving is the truest thing awake

[PreChorus]
The stars that shaped you didn't leave a single line unplanned
You were written with intention by a careful, knowing hand

[Chorus]
You are the tide and the shore and the in between
The most quietly extraordinary thing they've ever seen
Every wave you've weathered wrote you stronger than before
You don't need to prove a thing — you were enough before

[Bridge]
Let the ones who love you love you all the way through
You have given so much more than you have ever asked to
The cosmos didn't make you for a life lived halfway real
You were made to love completely and to let yourself feel

[Outro]
So rest now in the knowing that you've always carried home
The light that guides you forward is a light that's all your own