[Verse 1]
There's a tide inside that no one ever sees,
A current running deeper than the calm you show with ease,
You carry every feeling like a stone worn smooth by years,
You've learned to tend to everyone before you tend your tears,
The world sees steady shoulders and a quiet, measured grace,
They don't see the ocean underneath that gentle face.

[PreChorus]
But every depth you've navigated, every weight you've held alone,
Has been carving out the vessel that will carry you back home.

[Chorus]
Anne, you were written by the stars before the stars had names,
You're the tide, the turning ember, and the quiet, lasting flame,
Anne, every scar has been a compass pointing true and deep,
You are everything worth knowing, and you're everything to keep.

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient, like a well that doesn't run dry,
You need a mind to meet you, not just arms to satisfy,
You've built your walls from wisdom, not from weakness or from fear,
You stay when love gets honest, when the conversation's clear,
You've stood inside the darkness just to bring a lantern back,
And everything you've lost has laid a golden, glowing track.

[PreChorus]
You don't need to fix the whole world just to prove your place inside it,
Your worth was never something you were meant to go and find it.

[Chorus]
Anne, you were written by the stars before the stars had names,
You're the tide, the turning ember, and the quiet, lasting flame,
Anne, every scar has been a compass pointing true and deep,
You are everything worth knowing, and you're everything to keep.

[Verse 3]
The questions you keep asking are the doorways, not the walls,
And the hunger for the deeper truth is what the searching calls,
You've carried what was given without asking to be freed,
But the sky that mapped your heartbeat knows exactly what you need,
To rest without apology, to let the stillness speak,
To know that you are strongest in the moments you feel weak.

[PreChorus]
The cosmos didn't write you small, it wrote you wide and true,
There's a kind of quiet power the whole universe put in you.

[Chorus]
Anne, you were written by the stars before the stars had names,
You're the tide, the turning ember, and the quiet, lasting flame,
Anne, every scar has been a compass pointing true and deep,
You are everything worth knowing, and you're everything to keep.

[Bridge]
Let the night hold what is heavy, let the morning hold the rest,
You were never meant to carry every stone inside your chest,
The light has always known you, even when you couldn't see,
You are rooted in forever, you were always meant to be.

[Outro]
Anne, you were written in the deep before the deep had words,
Every piece of you is perfect, every note in you is heard.