[Verse 1]
She carries the ocean just under her skin,
A warmth at the surface, a storm deep within,
She reads every room before she walks through the door,
Feels the weight of a word that was never said before,
There's a fire behind the gentleness, a lion in the light,
She enters like the morning, she endures like the night,
They see a woman steady, composed and soft and kind,
But there's a whole universe turning in her mind,

[PreChorus]
She has held the world together with the quietest of hands,
Stood in her own earthquake and learned how to stand,
Every wall she ever built was just a door she hasn't tried,
And the depth of what she carries is her greatest gift inside,

[Chorus]
Oh Tess, you are the tide that shapes the shore,
The kind of rare and ancient soul they don't make anymore,
You are the moon's own daughter, you are the lion's grace,
A whole cosmos in motion wearing one beautiful face,
Oh Tess, let the stars remind you what you've always known,
You were never lost, my love, you were finding your way home,

[Verse 2]
She loves like the first day of summer and stays like the earth,
She gives before she's asked, never measuring her worth,
She longs for a love that is steady, safe and true,
Someone who can hold the dark alongside all the gold in her,
She's slow to let you in but once you're there you stay,
She'll tend the roots of something long before it blooms one day,
She's learned that love can leave a scar along the open heart,
But she keeps on loving deeper, keeps on choosing not to part,

[PreChorus]
She has held the world together with the quietest of hands,
Stood in her own earthquake and learned how to stand,
Every wall she ever built was just a door she hasn't tried,
And the depth of what she carries is her greatest gift inside,

[Chorus]
Oh Tess, you are the tide that shapes the shore,
The kind of rare and ancient soul they don't make anymore,
You are the moon's own daughter, you are the lion's grace,
A whole cosmos in motion wearing one beautiful face,
Oh Tess, let the stars remind you what you've always known,
You were never lost, my love, you were finding your way home,

[Verse 3]
She's been the one who notices the crack behind the smile,
Who sits with someone's sorrow and stays more than a while,
Her mind is a cathedral filled with light she rarely shows,
A poet in the quiet, a healer no one knows,
She's wrestled with the question of whether she's enough,
Smoothed every edge of herself whenever life got rough,
But the very thing she hides away is what the world needs most,
She is not too much, not ever, she is perfectly composed,

[PreChorus]
She has held the world together with the quietest of hands,
Stood in her own earthquake and learned how to stand,
Every wall she ever built was just a door she hasn't tried,
And the depth of what she carries is her greatest gift inside,

[Chorus]
Oh Tess, you are the tide that shapes the shore,
The kind of rare and ancient soul they don't make anymore,
You are the moon's own daughter, you are the lion's grace,
A whole cosmos in motion wearing one beautiful face,
Oh Tess, let the stars remind you what you've always known,
You were never lost, my love, you were finding your way home,

[Bridge]
She doesn't need to earn the right to rest,
She doesn't need to prove she gave her best,
The way she loves, the way she feels so wide,
Is not a burden, it's the light she carries inside,
Let the seasons turn and let the tides come in,
She is exactly where she's always, always been,
Written in the water, written in the flame,
The universe took care with every part of her name,

[Outro]
Oh, she is enough, she has always been enough,
The soft, the deep, the radiant, the tough,
Let the sky bear witness, let the deep water know,
She is a rare and rooted thing, and she was made to grow,
She was made to grow,