[Verse 1]
There's a tide inside that no one gets to see,
A quiet ocean carrying what you choose to keep,
You read the room before you cross the door,
Feeling everything at once, then asking for nothing more,
They see the steady hand, they miss the undertow,
All that depth you carry, all that light below.

[PreChorus]
You've held the world together with a careful, searching heart,
And called it ordinary — that was always your best art.

[Chorus]
Patty, you were written in the water and the wild,
In the restless searching soul, in the tenderness of a child,
You don't have to earn your place beneath this open sky,
You were made to hold the depth and still know how to fly.

[Verse 2]
You love in careful gestures, in the things you don't forget,
The quiet way you show up — that's the closest thing to sacred yet,
But walls are also prayers, a way of asking to be known,
And every time you sheltered others, you were never quite alone,
You want what's real, what's honest, what can last the weight of years,
And everything you've built was laid on more than mortal tears.

[PreChorus]
The truth you keep in silence is the bravest thing you own,
A compass carved from longing, always pointing you toward home.

[Chorus]
Patty, you were written in the water and the wild,
In the restless searching soul, in the tenderness of a child,
You don't have to earn your place beneath this open sky,
You were made to hold the depth and still know how to fly.

[Verse 3]
There's a fire that moves in you before the words arrive,
A mind that chases meaning just to know that you're alive,
You've wrestled with the space between the real and what you dream,
Between the self that others see and everything between,
But every wound became a door, and every doubt a thread,
Leading back to who you are when all the noise has fled.

[PreChorus]
The season's turning golden and the light is yours to claim,
You were never who they missed — you were always your own flame.

[Chorus]
Patty, you were written in the water and the wild,
In the restless searching soul, in the tenderness of a child,
You don't have to earn your place beneath this open sky,
You were made to hold the depth and still know how to fly.

[Bridge]
The sky that held your first breath never let you go,
It mapped the gifts you carry in the things you didn't know,
A Cancer heart, a searching moon, a life built to become —
You are not what you survived, you are everything you've won.

[Outro]
The stars don't ask you to be more, they ask you to be true,
Everything the universe needs, it already placed in you.