[Verse 1]
There's a tide inside that never settles still,
A current running deep beneath the iron will,
They see the steady hands, they miss the restless flame,
The mind already moving while the world stays tame,
A heart that holds the ocean and a fire that won't quit,
Built for something larger, learning how to sit with it

[PreChorus]
The calm they see is just the surface of the sea,
All that depth below is where you've always run free

[Chorus]
Written in the water, written in the stone,
Every road you've traveled, you were never alone,
The sky mapped you carefully, with purpose and with care,
You are more than what you carry, you are everything that's there

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient that was never taught to yield,
Steady as the earth beneath, a fortress and a field,
You keep the best of what you feel tucked quietly inside,
Not cold, just careful — that's how deep water learns to ride,
And when you finally let someone past the guarded gate,
What they find is worth the waiting, worth the long and patient wait

[PreChorus]
The walls you've built were never walls, they were foundations laid,
Every stone you set in silence is the ground on which you've stayed

[Chorus]
Written in the water, written in the stone,
Every road you've traveled, you were never alone,
The sky mapped you carefully, with purpose and with care,
You are more than what you carry, you are everything that's there

[Verse 3]
You've wrestled with the gap between the man you show the world,
And the one who sees through everything, still watching it unfurl,
That restless need for meaning sent you searching wide and far,
Not running from a life — just chasing what you know you are,
The questions that kept finding you were never signs of lack,
They were proof the universe was always calling you back

[PreChorus]
You don't need to earn your place inside the life you've made,
The stars already claimed you long before the debt was paid

[Chorus]
Written in the water, written in the stone,
Every road you've traveled, you were never alone,
The sky mapped you carefully, with purpose and with care,
You are more than what you carry, you are everything that's there

[Bridge]
The fire that moves in you was never meant to be contained,
Every scar became a compass, every loss became a gain,
You were written into something wide and older than a name,
And the world has always needed you exactly as you came

[Outro]
So rest inside the truth of all the ground that you have crossed,
You are held by what created you and nothing has been lost,
The tide keeps turning homeward and it knows just where you are,
You were never just a person — you were always just a star