[Verse 1]
She carries the ocean behind her eyes, still and wide,
And a tide no one sees unless she lets them inside,
She reads a room before a word is ever said,
Feels the weight of what is spoken and what's left instead,
There's a quietness to her that isn't emptiness,
It's the kind of full that comes from holding everything close,
She's built a home inside herself through every shifting year,
A shelter made of memory, of love, and of tears,
She tends to everyone around her like a garden in bloom,
And forgets that she's a flower that needs tending too,
The world sees the surface, calm and warm as sunlit shore,
But the depth beneath that stillness holds an ocean and more

[PreChorus 1]
She's been the steady hand, the quiet in the room,
The one who plants the seeds and stays to tend them into bloom,
And maybe she has wondered if her worth was truly seen,
But everything she's given has been rooting something deep

[Chorus 1]
Catherine, you were written in the pull of the tide,
In the language of the water, in the turning of the light,
You are ancient in your loving, you are steady in your flame,
The world is softer, warmer, better, just because you came,
Catherine, let the current carry what you've held too long,
What you thought was just your story is where others find their song,
You are seen, you are enough, you are exactly right,
Catherine, you were written in the pull of the tide

[Verse 2]
There's a part of her that lives in places no one goes,
Where she turns the hardest questions over, slow,
A mind that refuses to rest until it finds the truth,
That's been searching since the beginning, since her youth,
She has known what it means to carry something unsaid,
The kind of pain that settles quietly and lives in the chest instead,
She has felt misread by the world she worked so hard to serve,
Seen her efforts go unnoticed, unacknowledged, unheard,
But the strength she built in silence was not born of defeat,
It was forged the way that iron is, in patience and in heat,
And every time she rose again without applause or crown,
She was writing something permanent that no one could take down

[PreChorus 2]
She has learned to trust her instincts and to walk through what is hard,
There's a compass sewn inside her chest that's never led her far,
And the scars she keeps in private are not proof that she has failed,
They're the map of every mountain that she climbed and then scaled

[Chorus 2]
Catherine, you were written in the pull of the tide,
In the language of the water, in the turning of the light,
You are ancient in your loving, you are steady in your flame,
The world is softer, warmer, better, just because you came,
Catherine, let the current carry what you've held too long,
What you thought was just your story is where others find their song,
You are seen, you are enough, you are exactly right,
Catherine, you were written in the pull of the tide

[Verse 3]
She loves the way the moon loves, constant through the dark,
She gives before she's asked and always leads with all her heart,
But love for her is not a simple open door,
It's a threshold only earned by those who mean it to the core,
She has built her walls with care, not out of coldness, out of truth,
She has given of herself in ways that left her bruised,
And still she opens anyway, because the depth she craves,
Is not the kind of love you find in anything but brave,
She is here to find the richness that lies underneath the surface things,
To trade the weight of what seems safe for everything that truly sings,
There's a path ahead still calling in a voice she almost knows,
Leading back to her own center, which is where all healing goes

[PreChorus 3]
She doesn't need to earn her place or justify her need,
She is whole before she's finished, she is enough before she leads,
The sky above her did not write her name in accidents,
Every piece of who she is was placed with intention and intent

[Chorus 3]
Catherine, you were written in the pull of the