[Verse 1]
There's a fire in you that doesn't need an audience to burn,
A sovereign kind of knowing you were born with, not to learn,
You read the room before you enter, feel what no one says,
You carry whole worlds quietly behind those steady eyes and grace,
They see the warmth, the open hand, the calm you hold in place,
They don't see the current running deep beneath the surface space

[PreChorus]
But you've always known there's more beneath the light,
A depth that doesn't dim, it just stays out of sight

[Chorus]
Michelle, you are the tide and the shore,
The one who holds the fire and still opens the door,
You don't have to earn what you already are,
The cosmos wrote you carefully — you are already the star

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient, like a lantern in the cold,
Like you'd build a home for someone just by letting them be held,
But you've swallowed your own hunger while you fed the room its fill,
Stood beautiful at the center when the ache was with you still,
That longing to be heard the way you hear, the way you see —
It wasn't asking too much, it was asking honestly

[PreChorus]
Every word you chose with care was proof of your regard,
And the voice you learned to doubt is still the brightest in the dark

[Chorus]
Michelle, you are the tide and the shore,
The one who holds the fire and still opens the door,
You don't have to earn what you already are,
The cosmos wrote you carefully — you are already the star

[Verse 3]
You've been the one who questioned everything down to the bone,
Who tore old maps apart to find a truth you'd call your own,
A mind that leaves no stone unturned — not doubt, but devotion,
A heart that gives before it's asked across the widest ocean,
You thought that needing rest was somehow breaking your own code,
But the river doesn't stop to prove it — it just flows

[PreChorus]
The ache you turned to wisdom and the wound you turned to light,
Are the very things that make you whole — not wrong, not nearly right

[Chorus]
Michelle, you are the tide and the shore,
The one who holds the fire and still opens the door,
You don't have to earn what you already are,
The cosmos wrote you carefully — you are already the star

[Bridge]
Let the need to prove it go, let the armor finally rest,
What you carry isn't burden — it's the map inside your chest,
You were placed here with intention, every scar a chosen thread,
And the world needs what you're carrying — so let yourself be fed

[Outro]
You are guided, you are held, you are enough,
Michelle, the stars decided — and they chose you with love