[Verse 1]
There's an ocean underneath the calm you wear so well
A depth that few have seen and fewer still could tell
You feel the world before it speaks, you hear what isn't said
You carry rivers in your chest and mountains in your head
The tidy life you show the world is only half the truth
There's something ancient living in you, older than your youth

[PreChorus]
You've worked so hard to earn the right to simply be
But you were always worthy of it, always already free

[Chorus]
The tide comes in, the tide goes out, and still you hold your ground
A quiet kind of power in the way you've come around
The stars wrote something careful when they wrote the shape of you
And everything you've carried was already turning into proof

[Verse 2]
You love like someone willing to be changed by what they find
You dive into the deep end of another's heart and mind
There's a boldness in the way you reach, then wonder if you should
You've believed in love again and again the way a dreamer would
And every scar that love has left has only made you wise
You don't lose faith — you just learn better where to place it next time

[PreChorus]
You've given more than you were given, held more than you could say
But the grace you show to everyone is yours to keep today

[Chorus]
The tide comes in, the tide goes out, and still you hold your ground
A quiet kind of power in the way you've come around
The stars wrote something careful when they wrote the shape of you
And everything you've carried was already turning into proof

[Verse 3]
You've always sensed there's something more just past the edge of sight
A wandering kind of longing pulling left of what seems right
Your mind moves fast, arrives at truth by roads that can't be mapped
The world calls that confusion, but your knowing never lacked
You've doubted your own clarity when it came too fast or soft
But the things you've understood by feeling haven't led you off

[PreChorus]
Between the dream and the real world, you've learned to build a bridge
Not by forcing it to hold, but by knowing where it gives

[Chorus]
The tide comes in, the tide goes out, and still you hold your ground
A quiet kind of power in the way you've come around
The stars wrote something careful when they wrote the shape of you
And everything you've carried was already turning into proof

[Verse 4]
You've questioned if your presence matters, if your effort shows
You've tried to prove your worth through motion more than anyone knows
But healing isn't found in proving — it was always there
In the tender way you notice things, the way you stop and care
Something's shifting now, the light is falling different on your face
What was wound is becoming welcome, what was lost is finding place

[PreChorus]
You don't have to hold the whole weight of becoming anymore
You are not the sum of what you've fixed — you're what you're for

[Bridge]
The universe has always held a space shaped just like you
Not for who you're trying to become, but who you always knew
Let the old negotiations go, let the proving rest
The compass in your chest already knows the way home best

[Outro]
The tide comes in and you are still here, whole and unafraid
You were written with intention, and you were carefully made