[Verse 1]
There's a stillness that you carry like a stone inside your chest,
A mountain learning patience while the world demands your best,
They see the calm, the steady hand, the one who holds the line,
They don't see all the tides you've turned at twenty past midnight,
You were built for depth, not surfaces, for roots, not the applause,
And every wall you ever raised was never without cause.

[PreChorus]
But beneath the careful armor lives a fire wide and bright,
A heart that moves like lightning before reason gets it right.

[Chorus]
You are ancient, you are tidal, you are more than what they see,
You are built from something stronger than the version you believe,
Every scar you carried quietly became a kind of gold,
You were never meant to shrink yourself to fit inside a mold.

[Verse 2]
You love like something borrowed from a dream you can't explain,
You pour yourself into the ones who may not feel your rain,
You see the best in people hiding underneath their rust,
You give before you're even asked and call that giving trust,
But there's a part of you that knows the cost of loving wide,
And still you keep the door ajar, the lantern still inside.

[PreChorus]
You're learning that to soften isn't weakness, it is art,
That letting someone truly in won't break you, it's the start.

[Chorus]
You are ancient, you are tidal, you are more than what they see,
You are built from something stronger than the version you believe,
Every scar you carried quietly became a kind of gold,
You were never meant to shrink yourself to fit inside a mold.

[Verse 3]
The noise inside your head is just a mind that won't stop caring,
The questions that you carry are the weight of what you're bearing,
You've worked so hard for recognition only you can give,
And the world has seen your output but not how hard it is to live,
When the place you should feel safest left you learning how to hide,
You became your own foundation, built the home you had inside.

[PreChorus]
The truth is you were always more than what they chose to name,
The light they couldn't honor, love, or hold, still burned the same.

[Chorus]
You are ancient, you are tidal, you are more than what they see,
You are built from something stronger than the version you believe,
Every scar you carried quietly became a kind of gold,
You were never meant to shrink yourself to fit inside a mold.

[Verse 4]
And now the season opens like a door you've earned the right to cross,
The sun is climbing higher and it's burning off the loss,
Something that was waiting at the edge of what you knew
Is stepping into daylight, and that something, it is you,
No longer asking if you're worthy of the life you're holding near,
You were written in the cosmos long before you got here.

[PreChorus]
Let the old approval crumble, let the proving finally cease,
You were made for something deeper, you were made for this release.

[Chorus]
You are ancient, you are tidal, you are more than what they see,
You are built from something stronger than the version you believe,
Every scar you carried quietly became a kind of gold,
You were never meant to shrink yourself to fit inside a mold.

[Bridge]
The stars don't ask the ocean to explain its depth or need,
They just hold the dark around it so the tides know they are freed,
You are held the way the night holds every soul who dares to feel,
Guided, grounded, whole enough, already healed.

[Outro]
So let the light of this new season find you standing in your truth,
Everything you've ever been was always, always enough proof,
The sky has known your name since long before the world could see,
And it is calling you to finally just be free.