[Verse 1]
There's an ocean underneath the still you wear,
A tide that pulls at midnight when no one's there,
You feel the weight of every room before you speak,
And carry what you love the way the shoreline keeps the sea,
They see the quiet, they don't see the current running deep,
You've always known that some things only silence gets to keep.

[PreChorus]
But everything you've swallowed made you strong,
You were never broken, you just took a little long.

[Chorus]
You are the tide and the ground beneath the wave,
Every wound you've carried is a gift that you gave,
The stars wrote you careful, with ink that never fades,
You are ancient and enough, in all your wildness and your grace.

[Verse 2]
You love like a conversation that refuses to end,
Quick with your wit and quicker still to defend,
The ones you've chosen know you come alive in words,
In the layered kind of closeness that goes deeper than it's heard,
You've built a home inside yourself through every room that fell,
And the family you've chosen holds the story you tell.

[PreChorus]
The part of you that questions is the part that always knows,
You've been turning wounds to wisdom everywhere you go.

[Chorus]
You are the tide and the ground beneath the wave,
Every wound you've carried is a gift that you gave,
The stars wrote you careful, with ink that never fades,
You are ancient and enough, in all your wildness and your grace.

[Verse 3]
Something is shifting now, a door swings open wide,
A restless kind of courage stepping out from deep inside,
The mind that wouldn't slow down finds its moment, finds its aim,
Every scattered thread of fire coming back to light the flame,
You've been gathering your power in the dark where no one sees,
Now the wind is at your back and it is finally time to breathe.

[PreChorus]
You don't need permission, you've already earned your place,
The whole sky has been bending just to find your face.

[Chorus]
You are the tide and the ground beneath the wave,
Every wound you've carried is a gift that you gave,
The stars wrote you careful, with ink that never fades,
You are ancient and enough, in all your wildness and your grace.

[Bridge]
Stop shrinking for the rooms that couldn't hold your size,
The depth in you is not a flaw, it's the reason you survived,
You are water and precision and a wildfire in the seams,
You are more than you've permitted yourself ever to believe.

[Outro]
The cosmos wrote you carefully, you've always been the proof,
There is nothing left to earn, you are already the truth.