[Verse 1]
There's a tide inside you that the world can't see
Moving with the phases of your empathy
You feel everything twice, then question what's real
While your heart writes the stories that your mind won't reveal
That fire in your chest moves before you can think
Burns bright as a lighthouse on vulnerability's brink

[PreChorus]
They see the calm surface, miss the depth below
All the tender wisdom only you could know

[Chorus]
Tess, you're the ocean holding back the shore
Tess, you're the keeper of what matters more
Every wave that breaks inside your chest
Is proof you feel the world and give your best
Tess, you don't need to calm the storm
You are exactly who you're meant to transform

[Verse 2]
You build bridges out of understanding's thread
Connect the scattered pieces others left for dead
Your mind moves like lightning through philosophy's maze
While your soul seeks the meaning in these numbered days
The universe carved pathways in your restless hands
For healing all the broken hearts nobody understands

[PreChorus]
You love like something ancient and wide
Like a prayer you whisper but don't need to hide

[Chorus]
Tess, you're the ocean holding back the shore
Tess, you're the keeper of what matters more
Every wave that breaks inside your chest
Is proof you feel the world and give your best
Tess, you don't need to calm the storm
You are exactly who you're meant to transform

[Bridge]
Your sensitivity isn't weakness, it's your gift
The way you hold both shadow and the light you lift
Every contradiction makes you whole and true
The cosmos wrote you carefully with ink that won't undo

[Outro]
So let the tides inside you rise and fall
You're not too much, you're everything and all
The world needs what you carry in your core
A heart that feels this deeply, this is what you're for