[Verse 1]
There's a stillness on the surface, but the current runs so deep,
A mind that never settles, even when the world's asleep,
You read between the lines of life before the page is turned,
You've walked through more than once the kind of fire that never burned —
It only lit the lantern that you carry in your chest,
The one that guides you forward when the rest has gone to rest.

[PreChorus]
They see composure, they don't see the ocean underneath,
All that wisdom, hard-won, worn like armor and like wreath.

[Chorus]
Oh Gayle, you are the deep water and the shore,
The one who holds the map of what the heart was made for,
You've searched the edges of the sky and still you rise,
The whole of who you are is more than enough — open your eyes.

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient, like a promise made at dawn,
You don't give half of anything — it's everything or none,
You've wanted someone real enough to meet you in the dark,
Not just the shining version, but the shadow and the spark,
And when you feel the walls go up, that's not a flaw — it's proof
You've loved so wide and openly you needed a roof.

[PreChorus]
Your loyalty runs deeper than the ones who walked away,
What they couldn't hold was never theirs to carry anyway.

[Chorus]
Oh Gayle, you are the deep water and the shore,
The one who holds the map of what the heart was made for,
You've searched the edges of the sky and still you rise,
The whole of who you are is more than enough — open your eyes.

[Verse 3]
You've always had a hunger for the meaning underneath,
For truth that isn't borrowed and for faith you truly feel,
The questions that you carry aren't a burden or a sign —
They're evidence of someone who refuses to be blind,
You were built for the horizon, for the wide and the unknown,
And every place you've searched for home has led you to your own.

[PreChorus]
There's a compass sewn into the lining of your soul,
It has always known the way — it has always known the whole.

[Chorus]
Oh Gayle, you are the deep water and the shore,
The one who holds the map of what the heart was made for,
You've searched the edges of the sky and still you rise,
The whole of who you are is more than enough — open your eyes.

[Bridge]
The stars didn't carve you to be perfect or to bend,
They wrote you to be real, to break and mend and mend,
What you've been through didn't break the thing that makes you, you —
It just cleared the path to let the truest light come through.

[Outro]
You are held by something older than your doubt,
You are exactly who you came here to be — there is no question now,
Rest, Gayle — the searching that you've done has brought you here,
And here is whole, and here is loved, and here is clear.