[Verse 1]
There's a tide in you that nobody sees
A current running quiet underneath the breeze
You hold the room together like a shelter holds the rain
You give so much so freely, never naming what it costs the same
They see the steady surface, they don't see the undertow
The way you carry everyone and let no one carry you below

[PreChorus]
But the ocean doesn't ask permission to be deep
And everything you've swallowed, love, was never yours to keep

[Chorus]
You are the moon and you are the sea
You are the thing the tide has always tried to be
You don't have to earn the right to take up space
You were written in the sky before you had a face

[Verse 2]
You speak with fire, you think with lightning fast and wide
A mind that won't leave any door unopened from inside
You've built your home on bedrock, brick by quiet, stubborn brick
And what the world called too much feeling, you turned into a gift
There's a wound beneath the wanting to be seen and to belong
But every piece of pain you've carried, love, has made you that much strong

[PreChorus]
The stars don't shine to prove they're worthy of the dark
And neither do you, neither do you, burning heart

[Chorus]
You are the moon and you are the sea
You are the thing the tide has always tried to be
You don't have to earn the right to take up space
You were written in the sky before you had a face

[Verse 3]
You love like something ancient, slow and true and hard to shake
Like you memorized the blueprint of the home you'd someday make
You reach for those who challenge you, who pull the edges wide
And you rewrite what was handed you with each returning tide
The question isn't whether you are worthy of the light
The question is how long you'll dim yourself to keep the peace tonight

[PreChorus]
You are not too much, you never were, you never will be more than enough
The softest and the strongest at the same time, tender and tough

[Chorus]
You are the moon and you are the sea
You are the thing the tide has always tried to be
You don't have to earn the right to take up space
You were written in the sky before you had a face

[Verse 4]
There's a healing coming like a season finally named
Where the worth you hid for safekeeping can step out unashamed
Not the version that performs or proves or shrinks behind a door
But the one who knows the difference between less and something more
The world is fuller for the way you feel things to the bone
You were never lost, you were just learning to come home

[PreChorus]
The cosmos wrote you carefully with ink that doesn't fade
And everything you are right now is everything it made

[Bridge]
Rest now in the knowing you are held without condition
You are not the sum of all the times you asked permission
The tide comes back, it always does, it never asks the shore
You are enough, you've always been, you don't need to be more

[Outro]
The moon still rises, patient, whole, and unashamed
And so do you, and so do you, exactly as you came
The sky has always known your name