[Verse 1]
She keeps the peace like it costs her nothing to give,
Reads every room like she's learning how to live,
Fire underneath the grace that everyone else sees,
A current running deeper than the surface of the breeze,
She's given so much away to hands that didn't hold,
Now she's learning that the warmest heart still needs its own threshold,

[PreChorus]
She's been the steady ground beneath so many other feet,
It's time she builds a home inside the place where both ends meet,

[Chorus]
Joyce, you are the tide and you are the shore,
You don't have to keep bleeding to prove that you give more,
The peace you've been searching in the eyes of everyone else,
Has always been waiting, quiet and whole, inside yourself,

[Verse 2]
She loves like something ancient and wide as the sea,
Sees the best in broken things before they believe,
She's walked through the rubble of what she thought was gone,
And somehow kept the lantern lit and somehow kept moving on,
What felt like losing everything was clearing the way,
For a love so rooted and real it doesn't drift or fray,

[PreChorus]
The things that disappeared were never hers to keep,
What's being restored now runs so quiet and so deep,

[Chorus]
Joyce, you are the tide and you are the shore,
You don't have to keep bleeding to prove that you give more,
The peace you've been searching in the eyes of everyone else,
Has always been waiting, quiet and whole, inside yourself,

[Verse 3]
She carries the ones who are struggling under the weight,
Stands in the gap for others before it gets too late,
Her greatest victories aren't won by force or by pride,
But by refusing to abandon what she holds inside,
She's earned every scar the way a river earns its stone,
Worn smooth and made beautiful by enduring alone,

[PreChorus]
The healing she's poured into everyone else's hands,
Is turning like a tide now back to where she stands,

[Chorus]
Joyce, you are the tide and you are the shore,
You don't have to keep bleeding to prove that you give more,
The peace you've been searching in the eyes of everyone else,
Has always been waiting, quiet and whole, inside yourself,

[Bridge]
Something ancient wrote your name before the world began,
Every loss was quietly reshaping the plan,
You were never meant to earn the love you deserve to own,
You are already whole, you are already home,

[Outro]
The stars held a place for you in the long patient dark,
Joy was never something lost, it lives in your heart,
Joyce, you've always been enough, now let yourself know,
You are the love you've been waiting for, let it go,