[Verse 1]
She carries the tide behind her eyes where no one gets to look
A heart that reads the whole room like an open, dog-eared book
She'll hold the world together while she's quietly coming apart
There's a compass always spinning at the center of her heart
She moves through life with purpose, she was built to leave a mark
A gentle kind of thunder rolling steady in the dark

[PreChorus]
She's been the anchor more times than she should have had to be
Still she rises every morning like she's finally running free

[Chorus]
Dawn, you are the tide and you are the shore
You've been carrying mountains but you don't have to anymore
Dawn, you were written in the kind of ink that never fades
Every road that broke you down just led you to brighter days

[Verse 2]
Her mind runs faster than the words can find their way out right
She thinks in metaphors and rivers in the middle of the night
There's a restlessness inside her that she learned to call her own
A soul that needs a horizon just to feel a little home
She questions every story while she's building something true
A heart like hers don't fit inside the boxes handed to

[PreChorus]
She's been afraid to want too much, afraid to need too long
But every wall she ever built just made her more damn strong

[Chorus]
Dawn, you are the tide and you are the shore
You've been carrying mountains but you don't have to anymore
Dawn, you were written in the kind of ink that never fades
Every road that broke you down just led you to brighter days

[Verse 3]
She loves like something ancient, like a root that won't let go
Like a fire left in winter when there's nowhere warm to go
She'll fight for everyone she loves before she speaks her need
And the giving never costs her what the silence plants as seed
She's learned that loving deeply means you sometimes touch the scar
But she still reaches outward like she trusts the path so far

[PreChorus]
The world has missed the current underneath that steady grin
But everything she's been through carved a masterpiece within

[Chorus]
Dawn, you are the tide and you are the shore
You've been carrying mountains but you don't have to anymore
Dawn, you were written in the kind of ink that never fades
Every road that broke you down just led you to brighter days

[Verse 4]
There's something in the way she sees what others leave behind
A healer's eye, a searcher's hand, a beautifully made mind
She's been her hardest critic in a room where she shines most
Chasing some perfection like a shadow of a ghost
But the cracks are where the light got in and made the whole thing real
What she calls a broken place is how the rest of us got healed

[PreChorus]
She don't need the world's permission to be exactly this
She was always worth the love she gives and more than that, she is

[Chorus]
Dawn, you are the tide and you are the shore
You've been carrying mountains but you don't have to anymore
Dawn, you were written in the kind of ink that never fades
Every road that broke you down just led you to brighter days

[Bridge]
The stars don't make mistakes when they lay out a life like hers
Every loss became a lesson, every silence found its words
She was made for something tender and for something deep and wide
There's a whole universe that mapped its grace along her ride

[Outro]
Dawn, you were always enough, you were always the light
Just a little too vast for the ones who couldn't see right
The world is still turning because someone like you holds it true
And heaven keeps breathing its blessings right down into you