[Verse 1]
There's an ocean underneath the calm you wear,
Tides that pull at midnight, currents no one sees are there,
You feel the whole room breathing long before you speak,
You carry what you can't explain and call the rest mystique,
A mind that moves like water, finding cracks in stone,
Even in a crowded place, you've always felt alone.

[PreChorus]
But alone was never empty — it was where you learned to hear,
The quiet that has carried you through every silent year.

[Chorus]
Mike, you are the depth the surface never shows,
A steady kind of river with a powerful undertow,
You don't need to be lightning just to burn that bright,
You were written by the cosmos with a careful, lasting light.

[Verse 2]
You love like something rooted, like a promise and a vow,
You don't rush to open up but God, when you do — somehow,
Every gesture holds a decade, every word has weight,
You give your care so quietly it often comes too late,
For anyone to thank you, 'cause you've already moved on,
Still building someone's shelter while your own walls carry on.

[PreChorus]
The ones you've held together rarely knew the price you paid,
But strength was never borrowed — it was something that you made.

[Chorus]
Mike, you are the depth the surface never shows,
A steady kind of river with a powerful undertow,
You don't need to be lightning just to burn that bright,
You were written by the cosmos with a careful, lasting light.

[Verse 3]
You've stood at the edge of meaning, stared into the vast unknown,
Asked the kind of questions that no doctrine calls its own,
Your restlessness is sacred — it's a compass, not a flaw,
The world needs minds that question what the rest accept as law,
There's a version of you rising that has earned its place and name,
Not despite the fire you walked through, but because you fed the flame.

[PreChorus]
The tide is turning inward now, the new moon holds the door,
And everything you've carried is exactly what you're for.

[Chorus]
Mike, you are the depth the surface never shows,
A steady kind of river with a powerful undertow,
You don't need to be lightning just to burn that bright,
You were written by the cosmos with a careful, lasting light.

[Bridge]
Let the old skin go, the shell was never who you are,
The awakening has started underneath a summer star,
You are held by something ancient, you are known beyond your name,
You are not what broke you — you are everything that came.

[Outro]
Mike, the moon is new, the tide is yours to claim,
You were always whole — you're only learning how to say it plain.