[Verse 1]
There's a tide inside you no one ever names,
A current running quiet beneath the calmer days
You feel the world before it speaks, absorb it like the rain,
Then hold it all together while you're coming apart again
The dreamer and the builder living side by side,
The one who gives the light away and learns to hide

[PreChorus]
But everything you carry has been making you strong,
Every wave you've weathered is exactly where you belong

[Chorus]
Dede, you were written in a language deep and true,
The kind of soul the universe took extra care to brew
You are held in something older than the doubt you feel inside,
Dede, you are luminous, and you were built to shine

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient with no map or shore,
You dive in without armor, give a little more and more
The fire that you lead with burns before the world can see,
And somewhere beneath all of it lives someone running free
You've guarded what is tender with a lion's steady gaze,
Rebuilding what was broken through the hardest of your days

[PreChorus]
And every scar became a doorway, every loss became a key,
Every time you thought you'd lost your way, you grew into the sea

[Chorus]
Dede, you were written in a language deep and true,
The kind of soul the universe took extra care to brew
You are held in something older than the doubt you feel inside,
Dede, you are luminous, and you were built to shine

[Verse 3]
You've asked a thousand questions of a sky that won't explain,
Searched for a belief that fits the shape of all your pain
Your mind moves like the water, finds the truth between the lines,
Reading what is hidden in the spaces and the signs
You don't need to be further than the ground beneath your feet,
The compass has been living in the place where all roads meet

[PreChorus]
The world you've always wanted you have carried all along,
What you thought was falling apart was becoming something strong

[Chorus]
Dede, you were written in a language deep and true,
The kind of soul the universe took extra care to brew
You are held in something older than the doubt you feel inside,
Dede, you are luminous, and you were built to shine

[Bridge]
Let the lion in you rise into the warmth of what's to come,
The season turning golden is already begun
You don't have to earn the right to let yourself be known,
Every star that wrote you, Dede, carved a path back home

[Outro]
You are guided, you are whole, you are enough,
The cosmos didn't make you fragile, it made you full of love