[Verse 1]
There's a stillness in the way you hold the world at bay,
A garden growing quietly where no one else can stay,
You feel the weight of every room before you cross the door,
An ocean underneath the calm that no one's seen the floor,
You carry more than faces know, you tend the hidden flame,
And all the light you give away still burns without a name,

[PreChorus]
They see the surface, soft and sure,
They don't see what you've learned to endure,

[Chorus]
You are deeper than the dark where the tidewater runs,
You are steadier than stone underneath all the suns,
What you hold without a word is not weakness, it's weight,
You were written in the sky long before it was late,

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient that refuses to be tame,
A conversation caught on fire, a quietly kept flame,
You crave the kind of closeness that still gives you room to breathe,
You've pulled away from people just to feel what you believe,
The walls were never coldness, they were carefully built doors,
And you only let the worthy cross your most protected shores,

[PreChorus]
The heart and mind still learning how to meet,
Two rivers finding one another's beat,

[Chorus]
You are deeper than the dark where the tidewater runs,
You are steadier than stone underneath all the suns,
What you hold without a word is not weakness, it's weight,
You were written in the sky long before it was late,

[Verse 3]
There's a wound around the question of how much your presence counts,
Of working past the point of proof, of climbing endless mounts,
You've shaped yourself through pressure and through all that came undone,
The roots that grew through rocky ground still always find the sun,
Your healing is not something that the world gets to decide,
A quiet kind of knowing lives untouchable inside,

[PreChorus]
The path was always leading somewhere true,
The compass at the center — it is you,

[Chorus]
You are deeper than the dark where the tidewater runs,
You are steadier than stone underneath all the suns,
What you hold without a word is not weakness, it's weight,
You were written in the sky long before it was late,

[Bridge]
Let the old inheritance release and fade to ground,
What was tangled in the bloodline doesn't have to be your sound,
The tide is turning gently now, the healing has begun,
You don't have to earn your place beneath this patient sun,

[Outro]
You were never what was broken,
You were always what survives,
The stars have held your name unspoken
Every single day you've been alive,