[Verse 1]
There's an ocean underneath the calm you wear
A tide that pulls at midnight, a weight you rarely share
You feel the room before you cross the door
You sense what no one says, and still you give them more
The world sees steady hands, they don't see the cost
The current underneath the surface where you've almost lost
But every wave you've carried brought you somewhere new
There's a kind of ancient wisdom in the way you move through

[PreChorus 1]
You've always known that feeling things this deep
Is not a flaw to fix but a covenant to keep
The fire and the tenderness were never opposites
They're everything you're made of and they finally fit

[Chorus 1]
Marcel, you are the tide and the shore
The one who holds the door and still wants something more
Marcel, built from salt and light and stone
You've carried oceans quietly and never walked alone
Every scar you've carried carved a deeper place to stand
Marcel, you are written by a careful hand

[Verse 2]
You love like someone who has learned the price of love
You measure every gesture, but you'll burn the world above
For someone who has earned it, someone who has stayed
You give yourself completely but you're still a little afraid
They see the loyalty, they don't see the doubt
The voice inside that questions what you're really all about
But doubt was never weakness, it's a mind that won't give in
It's the reason every choice you make is chosen from within

[PreChorus 2]
You've held your worth so gently like it might break in your hands
But you were built to carry more than anyone understands
The part of you that questions is the part that also knows
That everything you've been through is exactly how you grow

[Chorus 2]
Marcel, you are the tide and the shore
The one who holds the door and still wants something more
Marcel, built from salt and light and stone
You've carried oceans quietly and never walked alone
Every scar you've carried carved a deeper place to stand
Marcel, you are written by a careful hand

[Verse 3]
You've walked through rooms where no one saw the whole of you
The version that stays quiet when there's nothing left to prove
You've rearranged yourself to keep the peace around
But underneath the order there's a thunder of a sound
A mind that leaps the edges, sees what others miss
A heart that wants to matter and a soul that can't dismiss
The longing for a love that meets you where you are
Not asking you to shrink yourself to feel less like a scar

[PreChorus 3]
You are not the version others needed you to be
You are something far more whole and far more wild and free
The precision and the passion living side by side
Are the truest map of who you are, not something left to hide

[Chorus 3]
Marcel, you are the tide and the shore
The one who holds the door and still wants something more
Marcel, built from salt and light and stone
You've carried oceans quietly and never walked alone
Every scar you've carried carved a deeper place to stand
Marcel, you are written by a careful hand

[Verse 4]
The horizon you keep chasing isn't somewhere far away
It lives inside the moments you allow yourself to stay
To rest inside your own skin without needing to perform
To be the quiet eye and not the proof inside the storm
You came here with a compass and a question in your chest
A hunger for the truth that never settles for the rest
And everything you're searching for was always looking back
There's nothing that is missing, nothing broken, nothing lacks

[PreChorus 4]
The universe has held the shape of you since long before
You found the words to name the things your heart was reaching for
You are not a work in progress waiting to arrive
You are already the answer, you are already alive

[Chorus 4]
Marcel, you are the tide and the shore
The one who holds the door and still wants something more
Marcel, built from salt and light and stone
You've carried oceans quietly and never walked alone
Every scar you've carried carved a deeper place to stand
Marcel, you are written by a careful hand

[Bridge]
Let the water rise and fall and rise again
Let the part of you that doubted finally be a friend
You were sewn from something ancient, something deep and true
The cosmos wrote you carefully with every shade