[Verse 1]
She feels the tide before the weather turns
Carries oceans in her chest that no one else discerns
The quiet ones go deepest, that's a truth she's always known
She's lit the rooms of other lives while tending her own flame alone
But every soul she's held so close, every hand she chose to take
Has been a universe returning all the love she learned to make

[PreChorus]
The years have carved her softer, not diminished what she holds
There's a grace in how she's gathered up her stories as they fold

[Chorus]
This is for Tania, still and steady as the deep
For every love she's planted and every watch she keeps
Tania, you are not the years, you are everything they made
A woman built of tidal strength and light that will not fade

[Verse 2]
She gave her whole heart fiercely when her children filled the hall
Now the house breathes different, slower, but she's standing through it all
The ones she raised are living, full and rooted in their way
And the grandsons who came after turned the grey back into May
She loves the way the water loves the shore it shapes in time
Something constant, something ancient, something holy in its rhyme

[PreChorus]
The grief of watching elders go is worn like heavy lace
But she holds both loss and gratitude with that particular grace

[Chorus]
This is for Tania, still and steady as the deep
For every love she's planted and every watch she keeps
Tania, you are not the years, you are everything they made
A woman built of tidal strength and light that will not fade

[Verse 3]
And then there's Mark, her compass needle pointing somewhere true
Not the fairytale they write about, but real the whole way through
She loves him like a testimony, not a wish or a dream
The kind of love that holds its shape through every silent extreme
He is her rock and she's the water wearing down his stone
And together they've made something neither could have built alone

[PreChorus]
It's not about the perfect, it's the choosing every day
The way two people weather time and somehow want to stay

[Chorus]
This is for Tania, still and steady as the deep
For every love she's planted and every watch she keeps
Tania, you are not the years, you are everything they made
A woman built of tidal strength and light that will not fade

[Verse 4]
And Lynx curled up beside her in the small hours of the night
That soft familiar presence like a candle keeping light
She's always known that love comes in the shapes it needs to take
In tiny paws and purring throats and all the peace they make
She's wondered if she's given more than she's allowed to keep
But heaven counts the love she poured, even in her sleep

[PreChorus]
She doesn't need to shrink herself to fit the space she's in
The whole sky wrote her carefully, let the new season begin

[Bridge]
She is the tide, she is the shelter, she is the long refrain
Every scar she carries softly is a window, not a stain
The cosmos didn't make her to be quiet and be done
She is her own unfolding, still becoming, still the sun

[Outro]
So rest in this, Tania, you have always been enough
Not in spite of all you've carried but because of all that stuff
The stars don't waste their light on those who weren't worth the sky
And darling, they wrote you carefully — every single line.