[Verse 1]
Dee Ann, you came in carrying water for a thirsty crowd,
Pouring out for everyone but never asking out loud.
You see the world from higher up, a little out of frame,
The one who never fit the mold and never wished the same.
Your mind runs on a current most folks never learn to read,
You'd rather open every door than follow where they lead.
They think you're far away from them, they think you're hard to reach,
But distance is how you see the whole of what you're here to teach.

[Pre-Chorus]
But who pours back into the one
Who fills the cups for everyone?

[Chorus]
Dee Ann, you pour the water with the moon held in your hands,
A tide that brings the loved ones home, a fire that understands.
Born on a restless number, made to wander and return,
You carry home inside your shell wherever you may turn.

[Verse 2]
But underneath that open sky, a tide runs dark and deep,
The memories you hold like shells, the feelings that you keep.
You mother everything you love, the hurt, the lost, the small,
You sense a storm in someone's chest before the first drop falls.
You came in with an old soul's eyes, like you'd lived this all before,
You know that every ending is the shape of one more door.
And all the pain you soak up from a world that's hurting too
Was never meant to drown you, love, it's meant to pass right through.

[Pre-Chorus]
A shell was never made to hide,
It keeps the softest part alive,
And everything you guard so well
Is still the ocean in the shell.

[Chorus]
Dee Ann, you pour the water with the moon held in your hands,
A tide that brings the loved ones home, a fire that understands.
Born on a restless number, made to wander and return,
You carry home inside your shell wherever you may turn.

[Verse 3]
You've lived a dozen different lives and changed your skin each time,
You'd take the long and winding road if it had a hill to climb.
You need the wind, you need the change, you need a room with air,
But when you love, you love for good, you plant yourself right there.
The fire in you burns quietly in all the work you do,
You hold the light for other souls until they find their way through.
And love has been your hardest teacher, mirror after mirror,
Each one showed you more of you and made the picture clearer.

[Pre-Chorus]
The one who leaves and loves the same
Was never wrong, just hard to name.

[Chorus]
Dee Ann, you pour the water with the moon held in your hands,
A tide that brings the loved ones home, a fire that understands.
Born on a restless number, made to wander and return,
You carry home inside your shell wherever you may turn.

[Bridge]
There's a season turning inward now, and deeper words are near,
The truths you only told the dark are rising, plain and clear.
You've walked behind so many souls and lit the path ahead,
Now someone's coming to walk with you and let you lead instead.
There's been a hand behind you all the years you couldn't see,
It's opening the wildest door and handing you the key.

[Outro]
Dee Ann, the water's yours to keep, the road is yours to roam,
And every tide you ever gave is turning, coming home.