[Verse 1]
There's an ocean underneath the way you hold your face so still,
A current running deeper than the calm that others feel,
You carry what the tide brings in and sort it all by hand,
You've always felt more at home in water than on land,
Your heart reads every room before your feet have crossed the floor,
You know what people need to hear — and what they're asking for,
But somewhere in the giving, you forget to save a share,
You pour yourself like rainfall, never stopping to ask where

[PreChorus]
You don't have to translate every feeling into sense,
Some things are true without a word, without defense,
The world you carry inside you — it was always meant to stay

[Chorus]
Rosella, you were written by the waves,
Born between the dreaming and the breaking of the days,
The tides inside you tell the truth that no one else can say,
Rosella, you were written by the waves

[Verse 2]
Your mind moves like a current — quick and lit from underneath,
It gathers every story, every thread, every leaf,
You think in living color and you feel in shades of blue,
And sometimes those two weather systems argue inside you,
You love like a conversation held beside a window pane,
You need the words to matter just as much as the refrain,
And when you trust someone enough to let them near the door,
You give them something no one else has ever given before

[PreChorus]
You don't have to be the stillest water in the room,
The restlessness in you is also how you bloom,
Every contradiction is a country you have claimed

[Chorus]
Rosella, you were written by the waves,
Born between the dreaming and the breaking of the days,
The tides inside you tell the truth that no one else can say,
Rosella, you were written by the waves

[Verse 3]
You've rebuilt things from rubble with your hands against the cold,
You've protected what was precious while you quietly grew old,
You've poured your care into the cracks where other people break,
And never stopped to wonder what you're owed for all you make,
There's a wound in you around the art of being fully seen,
A fear that what you offer won't quite measure what you mean,
But every careful word you've chosen, everything you've made,
Is proof that you were never meant to live inside the shade

[PreChorus]
The universe has carried you through every burning year,
Not despite the fire in you — because of it, my dear,
You were built to last in ways that only depth can understand

[Chorus]
Rosella, you were written by the waves,
Born between the dreaming and the breaking of the days,
The tides inside you tell the truth that no one else can say,
Rosella, you were written by the waves

[Bridge]
You are ancient and you're tender and you're stubborn and you're wise,
You've been holding up the roof for others underneath the skies,
But the stars that mapped your coming knew exactly what they penned,
Someone rooted to the shoreline who could also comprehend
That the sea returns the things it loves,
That the moon never asks permission from above,
That belonging doesn't cost you being free —
You can be the shore and still become the sea

[Outro]
Rosella, you were written by the waves,
You are held in every season and through every changing phase,
Let the tide that made you carry you the rest of the way,
You were always, always, always meant to stay