[Verse 1]
There's a tide beneath the stillness no one sees,
An ocean running deep behind the calm and the ease,
You carry every feeling like the moon carries the night,
Building something solid while you're burning with the light,
They see the composed one, the one who holds the line,
But there's a whole world turning just below the waterline

[PreChorus]
You've been the one who stays when everyone moves on,
Pouring out for others 'til you don't know what you've done

[Chorus]
Joanne, you are ancient and wide,
More than the version that you choose to hide,
The stars wrote you carefully in fire and tide,
Joanne, there is nothing in you that needs to be revised

[Verse 2]
You think with your heart and you love with your mind,
You find all the words but they're the hardest to find,
You've longed to be heard in the way you hear others,
To have someone sit still long enough to discover,
What lives in the quiet, what moves in the deep,
All the truth you keep folded like a letter you'll never send to sleep

[PreChorus]
You've learned to earn your place when you deserved it from the start,
That's not a flaw, that's the architecture of a brilliant heart

[Chorus]
Joanne, you are ancient and wide,
More than the version that you choose to hide,
The stars wrote you carefully in fire and tide,
Joanne, there is nothing in you that needs to be revised

[Verse 3]
You love like a fire that already knows the cost,
You've rebuilt from the inside everything that seemed lost,
Your roots have been tested, your branches have bent,
But every single storm was one more lesson heaven sent,
You move with conviction, you feel before you think,
That's not recklessness, that's courage at the brink

[PreChorus]
The world you're building quietly will be the one that lasts,
You are not defined by all the weight of your past

[Chorus]
Joanne, you are ancient and wide,
More than the version that you choose to hide,
The stars wrote you carefully in fire and tide,
Joanne, there is nothing in you that needs to be revised

[Bridge]
You don't have to prove the depth of what you carry,
You don't have to earn the right to rest or be ordinary,
Every scar became a lantern, every doubt became a door,
You were always, always, always worth more

[Outro]
So let the tide come in and let the tide go free,
You were written in the cosmos long before you learned to breathe,
Joanne, you are enough, you have always been enough