[Verse 1]
You feel everything before the words arrive,
A tide that pulls beneath a calm and practiced guise,
You've learned to hold the ocean in without a sound,
While everyone just sees the shore, not all that's underground,
There's a fire in you that moves before the world can speak,
A strength so deep it looks like stillness to the ones who only seek

[PreChorus]
They see the surface, steady, composed, and still,
They don't see the current running deeper than your will

[Chorus]
Catherine, you are the tide and the shore,
Every wave that breaks has made you more,
You don't have to be the calm they need to see,
You are enough, exactly as you're meant to be

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient that refuses to rush,
A devotion built on patience, presence, and trust,
You give before you're asked and hold the ones who fall,
But quietly you've wondered if there's someone left for all,
The parts you keep in shadow, the ache you breathe alone,
Those aren't cracks in who you are — they're how the light gets home

[PreChorus]
You've carried wounds you turned to wisdom without praise,
What you call your breaking was the start of better days

[Chorus]
Catherine, you are the tide and the shore,
Every wave that breaks has made you more,
You don't have to be the calm they need to see,
You are enough, exactly as you're meant to be

[Verse 3]
Your mind moves quick, collects the pieces others miss,
It speaks in stories, questions, half-remembered lists,
You want a love that thinks with you, that meets you in the deep,
Not just beside you in the light but in the parts you keep,
You've sometimes dimmed yourself to fit a smaller room,
But you were never meant to be a candle — you're the moon

[PreChorus]
The world you want to build is one worth reaching for,
You carry something rare that hasn't found its door

[Chorus]
Catherine, you are the tide and the shore,
Every wave that breaks has made you more,
You don't have to be the calm they need to see,
You are enough, exactly as you're meant to be

[Verse 4]
There's healing in the path you walk, though rough the ground,
You've faced the dark alone and still come back around,
What lives beneath your surface is a force that won't be named,
A quiet kind of power that can never be contained,
The stars mapped out a soul that transforms everything it holds,
And what you think is your undoing is the making of your gold

[PreChorus]
The universe did not make you by accident or chance,
You were written into every constellation's dance

[Chorus]
Catherine, you are the tide and the shore,
Every wave that breaks has made you more,
You don't have to be the calm they need to see,
You are enough, exactly as you're meant to be

[Bridge]
Every wound you've held has made you wide and deep,
Every night you spent in silence wasn't yours to keep,
What you've carried long enough has earned you room to rest,
The cosmos wrote your name and called it its best

[Outro]
The healing's always been inside the one who bears the sea,
Catherine, come home to yourself — you were always free