[Verse 1]
There's a tide inside that never shows on shore,
A depth that feels like too much and still hungers for more,
Tender at the root, but guarded at the gate,
Feeling everything at once and learning not to break,
A mind that chases meaning past the edge of the known,
A seeker born to wander but in need of a home.

[PreChorus]
They see the calm, they don't see the current underneath,
But every wall you've built is proof of all you've had to keep.

[Chorus]
Alma, you were written by the tide and the moon,
A melody so layered they can't hear the whole tune,
You carry ancient waters and a fire held in deep,
You are more than what you've shown, more than what you keep.

[Verse 2]
You love like someone counting every word before it's said,
Devoted in the silence, giving more than what's been read,
You notice what goes unnoticed, you hold what others drop,
A loyalty so steady it don't know how to stop,
But sometimes in the giving, you forget what you still need,
That the one who tends the garden is still worthy of the seed.

[PreChorus]
They see the grace you offer like it costs you nothing here,
But you've been building something steady through every doubt and fear.

[Chorus]
Alma, you were written by the tide and the moon,
A melody so layered they can't hear the whole tune,
You carry ancient waters and a fire held in deep,
You are more than what you've shown, more than what you keep.

[Verse 3]
There's a hunger in your questions and a light behind your eyes,
A mind that won't stop reaching past the surface of the skies,
You've wrestled with the truth of things that don't come wrapped in clear,
You've stood between the dream and real and learned to persevere,
That restlessness inside you is a compass not a flaw,
It's pointing you toward something greater than you've seen before.

[PreChorus]
You don't have to have it figured out to be already found,
Your roots were always reaching even underground.

[Chorus]
Alma, you were written by the tide and the moon,
A melody so layered they can't hear the whole tune,
You carry ancient waters and a fire held in deep,
You are more than what you've shown, more than what you keep.

[Verse 4]
Beneath the still exterior there's a force that rarely sleeps,
A power that transforms itself through every wound it keeps,
You've walked through what was heavy and you wore it like a coat,
But every scar became a lantern on the path you chose,
The world needs what you carry though you doubt it every day,
There's no one who can offer it exactly the same way.

[PreChorus]
You were never meant to earn your place by shrinking what you are,
The cosmos wrote you carefully, you are the map and the star.

[Chorus]
Alma, you were written by the tide and the moon,
A melody so layered they can't hear the whole tune,
You carry ancient waters and a fire held in deep,
You are more than what you've shown, more than what you keep.

[Bridge]
Let the searching be enough, let the feeling be a gift,
You don't need to hold the ocean still to know the ocean lifts,
Every version you have been was always leading here,
And the one you're still becoming is already clear.

[Outro]
You are guided, you are held, you are whole,
A tide that knows its way back home.