[Verse 1]
You notice what the room misses, catch every unspoken word
You carry other people's weight like it's nothing to be heard
There's an ocean underneath the calm you show the world each day
Tides that pull in every color while you're holding them at bay
You've mapped out every exit just to stay and tend the door
A mind that won't stop turning, always asking what the order's for

[PreChorus]
They see the surface, clean and still
They don't see the depth, the ache, the will

[Chorus]
You are the tide that holds the shore in place
The quiet force behind a steady face
You don't have to earn the right to take up room
You were written carefully, like light inside the moon

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient, like a language you were born to speak
You give before you're asked for it, you find the ones who need
But somewhere in the giving there's a hunger left unnamed
A longing for the kind of love that doesn't make you explain
You've kept your deepest chapters in a drawer against your chest
Waiting for a hand that wouldn't treat your truth like a test

[PreChorus]
The wound lives where connection lives
But that's the place your power gives

[Chorus]
You are the tide that holds the shore in place
The quiet force behind a steady face
You don't have to earn the right to take up room
You were written carefully, like light inside the moon

[Verse 3]
The sky is turning backward now, old voices find their way
Like rivers running inward through the current of your days
This is not a falling back, it's learning what was missed
Every thread you're picking up was always yours to twist
The recovering is real, it doesn't have to shine
Sometimes the bravest movement is the slow unwinding kind

[PreChorus]
What felt like losing ground was roots
Growing down to find the truth

[Chorus]
You are the tide that holds the shore in place
The quiet force behind a steady face
You don't have to earn the right to take up room
You were written carefully, like light inside the moon

[Bridge]
You were never too much, only too rarely met
The cosmos carved your edges, not a single one to regret
Let the stars recalibrate, let the old paths clear
Everything you are right now is exactly why you're here

[Outro]
The tide comes back, it always does, it always knows the way
You are held by something wider than the turning of the days
Rest inside the knowing, you were never left behind
You are enough, completely, in the fullness of your design