[Verse 1]
She holds the tide inside her chest where no one sees the swell,
A world beneath the surface she has learned to carry well,
Quick as light, she reads the room before a word is said,
She tends the hearth for everyone and starves herself instead,
The calm she wears is not the whole — the depth runs twice as far,
She came to earth already mapped, already shaped like stars.

[PreChorus]
But the moon that moves the ocean knows exactly what it's doing,
And every wave she's weathered was the making, not the ruining.

[Chorus]
Gayle, you are the tide and the shore,
The grace that holds when others break and fall,
Gayle, you were built for something more,
The sky wrote your name before the first light of the dawn.

[Verse 2]
She loves like an old fire — slow to catch but hard to kill,
Loyal past the point of reason, generous past her will,
She craves the kind of closeness that feels honest, real, and wide,
But keeps the tenderest rooms of her locked carefully inside,
She's known the ache of building home on ground that wouldn't hold,
And turned that ache to wisdom she now carries, brave and bold.

[PreChorus]
The wound was never weakness, it was soil beneath her feet,
And every loss she's lived through made the roots go that much deep.

[Chorus]
Gayle, you are the tide and the shore,
The grace that holds when others break and fall,
Gayle, you were built for something more,
The sky wrote your name before the first light of the dawn.

[Verse 3]
There's a mind in her that never stops, that questions, digs, and turns,
That finds the truth behind the truth and feels it when it burns,
She has walked through rooms where no one saw the fire that she carried,
And smiled so wide they couldn't tell how much of her was buried,
But a new moon rises over her, an awakening in the deep,
And everything she ever was is finally hers to keep.

[PreChorus]
The stars did not mistake her — she was crafted, not by chance,
And the life she's building now is just the opening of the dance.

[Chorus]
Gayle, you are the tide and the shore,
The grace that holds when others break and fall,
Gayle, you were built for something more,
The sky wrote your name before the first light of the dawn.

[Bridge]
You don't have to earn the right to rest inside your own skin,
The version that you hide the most is where the light gets in,
Let the new moon find you open, let it find you unafraid,
You are everything you needed and everything you've made.

[Outro]
The sky is turning, love, and it is turning just for you,
Gayle, the tide is rising — and you're rising with it too.