[Verse 1]
There's an ocean underneath the quiet you wear,
A depth that moves in silence, a current pulling there,
You feel the room before you walk inside the door,
You carry other people's weight like it's what you were born for,
The home you built inside your chest took years of steady stone,
And still you tend the hearth for others, burning it alone.

[PreChorus]
But the tide that pulls beneath your calm is not a flaw to fix,
It's the gravity that holds the whole world in your midst.

[Chorus]
Lori, you were written in the water and the deep,
A dreamer wide awake, a guardian in your sleep,
The stars bent close to trace you with a careful, tender hand,
Lori, you were always more than anyone could understand.

[Verse 2]
You love like something ancient, like a prayer left at the shore,
You see the best in everyone, and then you look for more,
The beauty that you carry, you give away so free,
But the ones who see your surface rarely see the sea,
You've learned to dress your softness in a layer none can breach,
And still your heart stays generous, still extending reach.

[PreChorus]
What looks like holding back to them is wisdom born from fire,
A mind that reads between the lines, a soul that sets the bar higher.

[Chorus]
Lori, you were written in the water and the deep,
A dreamer wide awake, a guardian in your sleep,
The stars bent close to trace you with a careful, tender hand,
Lori, you were always more than anyone could understand.

[Verse 3]
There's something in you built to break the mold and then rebuild,
A quiet revolution in the way your spirit's filled,
You've walked through rooms that couldn't hold the size of what you know,
And carried aches from long ago that no one watched you grow,
But every storm you sheltered through has sharpened what you see,
You are the house, the healing ground, the roots beneath the tree.

[PreChorus]
And now the sky is opening, the full moon finds your face,
Revealing what was always there — your irreplaceable grace.

[Chorus]
Lori, you were written in the water and the deep,
A dreamer wide awake, a guardian in your sleep,
The stars bent close to trace you with a careful, tender hand,
Lori, you were always more than anyone could understand.

[Bridge]
You don't have to earn the light that you already are,
You don't have to cross the distance, you were never that far,
The cosmos wrote your name down long before you had to prove,
There is nowhere left to get to — you are already the truth.

[Outro]
Rest now in the knowing that the sky has always known,
Every wave was leading back to you, and you are home,
Lori, you are home.