[Verse 1]
There's a fire at the center that the surface never shows,
A lion running quiet underneath the undertow,
You lead with open hands but guard the places no one sees,
You've carried whole empires like they cost you nothing free,
The world sees the calm, they don't see the tide,
All those fathoms of feeling you've learned to hide.

[PreChorus]
But the depths don't make you dangerous, they make you real,
There's nothing wrong with all the things you've taught yourself to feel.

[Chorus]
You were written in the language of the light and the deep,
Every contradiction is a promise you keep,
You don't have to choose between the fire and the sea,
You were made to hold it all and still be free.

[Verse 2]
You love like someone checking every corner twice,
Quiet acts of devotion, the kind that don't suffice
For all the recognition that you never ask to take,
You've been dependable as tides for everyone else's sake,
The ache of not being seen lives just below the bone,
But the ones worth keeping felt it when you showed up whole.

[PreChorus]
You don't have to earn the room you already fill,
You were always enough before you proved you still will.

[Chorus]
You were written in the language of the light and the deep,
Every contradiction is a promise you keep,
You don't have to choose between the fire and the sea,
You were made to hold it all and still be free.

[Verse 3]
There's a voice that's been misread since before you knew its name,
That said something true and brilliant but the room heard it wrong again,
So you sharpened all your edges and turned inward for a while,
Let the silence do the speaking in your slow becoming style,
But something's shifting now, a current finding its way through,
The world is finally catching up to everything that's you.

[PreChorus]
The sky has always had a map drawn out around your bones,
And every road you wandered was just carrying you home.

[Chorus]
You were written in the language of the light and the deep,
Every contradiction is a promise you keep,
You don't have to choose between the fire and the sea,
You were made to hold it all and still be free.

[Bridge]
What you buried in the dark became your clearest sight,
What you thought was holding you back was building you right,
You are held by something older than the fears you've known,
Every scar a constellation guiding you home.

[Outro]
You were never too much, never too small,
You were always the one who could carry it all,
Let the stars speak plainly what your heart always knew,
There was never a version of this that wasn't you.