[Verse 1]
She carries the tide inside her chest, quiet and vast,
A mind that memorizes every moment from the past,
She speaks in feeling, finds the words no one else would find,
The kind of calm that hides a thousand currents underneath the mind,
She built herself from duty, from the early weight of years,
And wore her strength so naturally, nobody saw the tears,

[PreChorus]
But the moon still knows what she keeps in the deep,
All the beauty she's been carrying while the world's asleep,

[Chorus]
Patti, you are made of more than you can see,
Written in the water, rooted like a tree,
Every tide that pulled you under shaped the shore,
You were always whole, you were never less, never more,

[Verse 2]
She loves like a conversation that refuses to end,
Part lover, part philosopher, part unforgettable friend,
She gives before she's asked, she smooths the edges of a room,
But she's learned to guard her garden, only certain hearts get through,
There's a wound beneath the wanting, an old question in the bone,
Whether all she pours out freely makes her worthy to be known,

[PreChorus]
But the answer's not out there where she keeps on looking hard,
It's been living in the center of that quietly guarded heart,

[Chorus]
Patti, you are made of more than you can see,
Written in the water, rooted like a tree,
Every tide that pulled you under shaped the shore,
You were always whole, you were never less, never more,

[Verse 3]
She is methodical and magnetic, both the fire and the plan,
A visionary who will quietly deliver what she can,
There's a stage that she was born for, not for vanity or show,
But because the world needs what she carries, and the light deserves to grow,
She's been walking between reason and a faith she cannot name,
And the tension that she carries is the engine of her flame,

[PreChorus]
The cosmos wrote her carefully with ink that doesn't fade,
Every contradiction in her is a gift that wasn't made by mistake,

[Chorus]
Patti, you are made of more than you can see,
Written in the water, rooted like a tree,
Every tide that pulled you under shaped the shore,
You were always whole, you were never less, never more,

[Bridge]
She doesn't have to earn what she was born already holding,
She doesn't have to fix herself to be worth beholding,
The stars were placed with purpose in the pattern of her name,
She was mapped before she knew it, and she'll never be the same,

[Outro]
Rest now in the knowing you are seen,
You are guided, you are grounded, you are everything between,
The tide is yours, the shore is yours, the sky above is too,
There was never any version of this world that wasn't built for you,