[Verse 1]
There's a tide inside you that the world never sees,
A current that runs deeper than the eye believes,
You carry everyone's weight like it's yours to hold,
A heart that speaks in feeling more than it's been told,
You tend the fire quietly, you shore up every wall,
And somehow you make home out of the hardest haul.

[PreChorus]
But still you reach for something past the horizon's rim,
A hunger for the meaning living just beyond the brim.

[Chorus]
You are written in the water and the wandering flame,
Michelle, the stars aligned the day they made your name,
Half an ocean, half an open road that never ends,
You were born already whole, already home again.

[Verse 2]
You love like a conversation and a warm July,
A spark of wit and wonder underneath a patient sky,
You've wondered if your worth was something you had to earn,
But every lesson you've survived became a light in turn,
You work in silence for the cause that feeds your soul,
Not needing anyone to clap before you make it whole.

[PreChorus]
The courage that you carry isn't always loud or bright,
It's the kind that holds the candle through the longest night.

[Chorus]
You are written in the water and the wandering flame,
Michelle, the stars aligned the day they made your name,
Half an ocean, half an open road that never ends,
You were born already whole, already home again.

[Verse 3]
You've kept your circle small and kept it close to true,
A few deep roots mean more than any crowd you ever knew,
There's a wound where trust was tested and left open wide,
But wisdom grew so quietly in the scar tissue inside,
You don't need to keep proving what was always really there,
The universe wrote carefully to make someone this rare.

[PreChorus]
You are the calm that someone else leaned on through the storm,
You are the kind of constant that the searching heart calls home.

[Chorus]
You are written in the water and the wandering flame,
Michelle, the stars aligned the day they made your name,
Half an ocean, half an open road that never ends,
You were born already whole, already home again.

[Bridge]
Let the searching be enough, let the seeking be the gift,
Every question that you carried gave the heaviness a lift,
You don't have to earn your place beneath this ancient sky,
The cosmos called you necessary long before tonight.

[Outro]
You are enough, you have always been enough,
Michelle, the light you carry, it was never luck,
The tide comes home, and so, beloved, do you.