[Verse 1]
There's a tide that runs beneath the still you wear
An ocean in your chest that few would dare to share
You read the room before a single word is said
You carry quiet maps of everything unsaid
The world sees the surface, calm and cool and sure
But the depth of what you hold — there is no measure for

[PreChorus]
You've been both the anchor and the undertow
Holding everyone up while letting no one know

[Chorus]
Michael, you were written in the deep
A soul too vast for shallow water, too alive for sleep
The night that made you knew exactly what it carved
Michael, you are everything you've ever reached toward

[Verse 2]
You love in ways that don't announce themselves out loud
You notice what is missing in a room full of the proud
You'd rearrange the world before you'd ask for ease
You've given every version of yourself to try to please
But there's a difference between devotion and a debt you're owed
And everything you've poured out — it was never yours to owe

[PreChorus]
You've held the weight of feeling like you had to earn your place
But you were already whole before you ever ran that race

[Chorus]
Michael, you were written in the deep
A soul too vast for shallow water, too alive for sleep
The night that made you knew exactly what it carved
Michael, you are everything you've ever reached toward

[Verse 3]
Your mind moves like a current through the layers underneath
You find the truth in people long before they speak
You've been misread by many who could not match your fire
Called too much by those who simply couldn't hold you higher
But intensity like yours is not a flaw to overcome
It's the reason every room feels different when you come

[PreChorus]
The ones who've felt your loyalty know what rare looks like
A steadiness that doesn't break in the middle of the night

[Chorus]
Michael, you were written in the deep
A soul too vast for shallow water, too alive for sleep
The night that made you knew exactly what it carved
Michael, you are everything you've ever reached toward

[Verse 4]
There's a horizon built for you that bends beyond the known
Where every wound you carried quietly has already been sewn
Into something that the world still doesn't have the words to name
You don't have to keep explaining — you were never the one to blame
The stars were deliberate the night they shaped your bones
You were always meant to matter, you were never meant alone

[PreChorus]
Let the tide inside you finally reach the shore
You don't have to hold it under anymore

[Bridge]
You are the keeper and the flame, the shelter and the sea
Exactly as you are right now is where you're meant to be
No more shrinking, no more proving, no more waiting to arrive
Michael, you were made to live — not just to survive

[Outro]
The cosmos wrote you carefully, in ink that doesn't fade
Every piece of who you are was purposefully made
Rest now in the knowing — you are held, you are enough
You always were