[Verse 1]
There's an ocean underneath the calm you wear,
Tides that no one sees but you know they're there,
You feel the whole room shift before a word is said,
You carry other people's skies inside your head,
The world calls it quiet — you know it's the deep,
All that you hold while everyone else is asleep.

[PreChorus]
You were built for more than fitting in,
The current in you is where it all begins.

[Chorus]
You are the water and the shore,
Ancient and open and worth so much more,
Let the tide be what the tide needs to be,
You are already everything.

[Verse 2]
You love like someone betting on the dawn,
Headfirst and honest, even when it's gone wrong,
You give before you're asked and hold the door,
Then wonder why you're always running low on more,
But that fire in your chest — the one that won't stay still —
That's not a burden, that's the whole of what you feel.

[PreChorus]
You were made to lead with something real,
Not just the surface — all of what you feel.

[Chorus]
You are the water and the shore,
Ancient and open and worth so much more,
Let the tide be what the tide needs to be,
You are already everything.

[Verse 3]
Your mind moves like a signal through the noise,
Finding futures hidden under all the voices,
You've questioned what was handed down as truth,
And wandered into philosophies that moved,
There's a compass in you pointing past the known,
And every path you've taken — you built from stone.

[PreChorus]
The long road has been teaching you all along,
What looked like waiting was becoming strong.

[Chorus]
You are the water and the shore,
Ancient and open and worth so much more,
Let the tide be what the tide needs to be,
You are already everything.

[Verse 4]
You've swallowed pain and turned it into grace,
Rebuilt yourself in the quietest of spaces,
The hurt that lived in love, in being unseen,
In pouring out your art and wondering what it means,
But every depth you've crossed has left a mark —
Not a wound, a map of where you've held the dark.

[PreChorus]
You don't have to earn the right to be,
You were written in the stars deliberately.

[Chorus]
You are the water and the shore,
Ancient and open and worth so much more,
Let the tide be what the tide needs to be,
You are already everything.

[Bridge]
The cosmos did not write you carelessly,
You were placed here with impossible precision,
Every contradiction, every in-between —
The whole of you was always the decision.

[Outro]
Rest now in the truth of what you are,
Held by every wave and every star,
You are the tide returning to the sea,
You are already everything.