[Verse 1]
There's a tide inside that no one sees when the surface stays still,
A heart that carries oceans and a mind that bends to feel,
She tends to everyone's fire while her own burns out of sight,
She speaks in quiet poetry and aches to get it right,
The world sees the composure, not the current underneath,
Not the ancient, restless longing for a place where she can breathe

[PreChorus]
But the stars have always known the whole of her,
Every shadow, every brightness, every stir

[Chorus]
Ruth, you were written in the light of the deep,
You are the tide and the shoreline, the vigil and the sleep,
Every question you've carried was a compass all along,
Ruth, the whole of who you are has always been enough

[Verse 2]
She moves like she was built for more than anyone can name,
With a fire that breaks before the world has learned her game,
She loves like conversation, like a door left open wide,
Like a curiosity that lives on the inside,
She carries wounds from early rooms where safety didn't stay,
But she learned to build her shelter from the pieces of that day

[PreChorus]
And every wall she raised was proof of care,
A tenderness so fierce it had to live somewhere

[Chorus]
Ruth, you were written in the light of the deep,
You are the tide and the shoreline, the vigil and the sleep,
Every question you've carried was a compass all along,
Ruth, the whole of who you are has always been enough

[Verse 3]
She was born to leave a mark where it matters most to stand,
To hold the trembling and the tenacious in one hand,
She's tired in the way that only givers understand,
The ones who pour themselves like rivers into other land,
But the moon that shaped her rises full and gold tonight,
Revealing what was always true, returning her own light

[PreChorus]
She doesn't need to earn what she already owns,
The cosmos laid her groundwork before she was alone

[Chorus]
Ruth, you were written in the light of the deep,
You are the tide and the shoreline, the vigil and the sleep,
Every question you've carried was a compass all along,
Ruth, the whole of who you are has always been enough

[Bridge]
Let the Capricorn moon pull the truth to the shore,
What was hidden in the deep can't stay hidden anymore,
You are not what you've doubted, you're not what you've feared,
You are everything the heavens carefully prepared

[Outro]
The stars don't speak in accidents, they spoke you into being,
Ruth, you are the answer to a question worth believing