[Verse 1]
There's a stillness that you wear like armour plating,
A scale held steady while the tides are waiting,
You read the room before you cross the door,
Feel everything they feel and then feel more,
The calm they see — that's just the surface glass,
Beneath it, oceans move too deep to pass.

[PreChorus]
You've carried so much weight in graceful hands,
Built whole worlds for others on shifting sands.

[Chorus]
You are the balance and the undertow,
The quiet fire and the undertow,
You were written in the dark between the stars,
Every hidden depth is proof of who you are.

[Verse 2]
You love like someone memorising detail,
The small things noticed where the others fail,
A cup of care poured out before it's asked,
Your devotion lives beneath the everyday tasks,
But somewhere in the giving, you forget
To save a little of that grace — not yet spent.

[PreChorus]
The wound you carry from an early door
Became the reason you build softer floors.

[Chorus]
You are the balance and the undertow,
The quiet fire and the undertow,
You were written in the dark between the stars,
Every hidden depth is proof of who you are.

[Verse 3]
There's a boldness in you most will never name,
A fire that moves before the world can frame,
And yet you second-guess the steps you take,
Trade certainty for kindness — that's not a mistake,
Your path was never meant to be straight or clean,
The crooked road is where you learn what rivers mean.

[PreChorus]
Let go the need to justify your worth,
You were already enough before your birth.

[Chorus]
You are the balance and the undertow,
The quiet fire and the undertow,
You were written in the dark between the stars,
Every hidden depth is proof of who you are.

[Bridge]
The cosmos didn't rush when making you,
It mapped the tides, the fog, the breaking through,
Your rising calls you toward the formless sea,
Where all you cannot prove becomes the key.

[Outro]
Rest now in the knowing, let the waves arrive,
You are not what you've survived — you are alive,
The stars don't ask the moon to justify its light,
And neither should you.