[Verse 1]
There's a tide inside that no one sees from shore,
A careful hand that gives and gives but rarely asks for more,
The mind moves quick, a thousand threads all woven into one,
While something deeper seeks the truth behind everything done,
Order is the armor, clarity the shield,
But underneath the structure lives a heart that will not yield.

[PreChorus]
The calm they see is only half the story,
There's an ocean in there, quiet in its glory.

[Chorus]
Let the stars speak, Leslie, they have known you all along,
Written in the tides and in the marrow of your song,
Every careful kindness, every wound that made you whole,
The cosmos mapped you carefully before you found your road.

[Verse 2]
You love the way that ancient rivers find the sea,
Through conversation, laughter, giving others room to breathe,
A word placed just precisely where it opens something wide,
But you've wondered if your worth was something others could decide,
That hunger for belonging, that old quiet ache to know,
Was never proof of lacking — it was depth beginning to show.

[PreChorus]
The wound was not a weakness in your story,
It became the root of all your quiet glory.

[Chorus]
Let the stars speak, Leslie, they have known you all along,
Written in the tides and in the marrow of your song,
Every careful kindness, every wound that made you whole,
The cosmos mapped you carefully before you found your road.

[Verse 3]
You've felt the pull between the person and the path,
Between the mind that reasons and the soul that does the math,
Between the world you're building and the meaning just beyond,
The archer in you reaches for the sacred and the fond,
That restlessness is not confusion running wild and free,
It's a compass pointing somewhere that you've always meant to be.

[PreChorus]
You were never lost, just learning how to listen,
To the quieter voice beneath the noise and friction.

[Chorus]
Let the stars speak, Leslie, they have known you all along,
Written in the tides and in the marrow of your song,
Every careful kindness, every wound that made you whole,
The cosmos mapped you carefully before you found your road.

[Verse 4]
They see the grace, they miss the fire burning underneath,
The loyalty that cuts through stone, the care woven like a wreath,
A mind that holds both poetry and purpose in one hand,
A heart that loves like something deep the shoreline cannot sand,
You've risen more than once from what was meant to leave you low,
And every time you carried more light than you'll ever know.

[PreChorus]
You don't need to earn the space that you're already taking,
You were whole before the proving and the making.

[Chorus]
Let the stars speak, Leslie, they have known you all along,
Written in the tides and in the marrow of your song,
Every careful kindness, every wound that made you whole,
The cosmos mapped you carefully before you found your road.

[Bridge]
There is something older than your doubt that chose this life for you,
A current running underneath that always carries you through,
The world needs what you carry and you've carried it with grace,
You were written by the universe and cannot be replaced.

[Outro]
Let the tide come in, let the arrows fly,
You are held by something wider than the asking why,
Leslie, let the stars speak — they've been speaking all this time.