[Verse 1]
There's an ocean underneath the steady way you stand,
Tides that pull in every color no one else can understand,
You feel the room before you enter, read the words between the lines,
A mind that maps the hidden places, heart that holds what daylight hides,
They see the calm, they never see the current running deep,
All the souls you've held together while your own goes without sleep.

[PreChorus]
But every wave that wore you down just carved you into shore,
You were never too much, never anything less than more.

[Chorus]
Come back to yourself, Nan, the tide knows where to go,
You are made of deeper water than you'll ever fully know,
The stars that wrote your story didn't stumble, didn't guess,
Come back to yourself, Nan, you were always worth this.

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient, like a hearth that won't go cold,
Like you memorized the people that you cherish, every fold,
There's a part of you that wanders far beyond the world you see,
Chasing meaning through the questions, making home from mystery,
And yes, you've swallowed your own hunger just to feed somebody else,
That devotion is a river — it deserves to reach itself.

[PreChorus]
The walls you built weren't weakness, they were wisdom holding form,
Every boundary you've ever drawn was shelter from the storm.

[Chorus]
Come back to yourself, Nan, the tide knows where to go,
You are made of deeper water than you'll ever fully know,
The stars that wrote your story didn't stumble, didn't guess,
Come back to yourself, Nan, you were always worth this.

[Verse 3]
Now something in the sky is turning, pulling what was lost to light,
All the words you never finished rising slowly to the right,
What you thought you had to carry backward you can set it down,
Every season of recovering is sacred ground,
The cosmos didn't break you when it bent the road this way,
It was tracing out the doorway to a more becoming day.

[PreChorus]
You are not the wound — you are the wisdom it became,
You are not the dark — you are the dawn that knows its name.

[Chorus]
Come back to yourself, Nan, the tide knows where to go,
You are made of deeper water than you'll ever fully know,
The stars that wrote your story didn't stumble, didn't guess,
Come back to yourself, Nan, you were always worth this.

[Bridge]
Rooted in the fire, open to the sky,
You were built for all of this, the deep end and the high,
Let the turning find you steady, let the light come in,
Everything you are is everything to begin.

[Outro]
The tide comes back, it always does, and so do you,
Nan, the sky has always known exactly who you are.