[Verse 1]
There's a fire in the chest that the world never quite sees,
The kind that burns at midnight when there's no one left to please,
A mind that catches every crack, that notices the seams,
That holds a room together while it's quietly coming clean,
They see the confidence, the spark, the way you take up space,
They don't see what it costs to wear authority like grace,
A thousand thoughts before you speak, a blueprint in your bones,
Building something solid in the hours spent alone

[PreChorus]
You've learned to swallow oceans just to keep the surface still,
But everything you buried has been forging something real

[Chorus]
You are the tide and the rock and the tide again,
The one who feels the earthquake but stays calm within,
You love like something ancient, like a root that doesn't break,
You're not too much — you're exactly what the world needs you to make,
Not too loud, not too still, not too far gone,
You were written in the kind of ink that lasts long after dawn

[Verse 2]
There's a softness underneath the armor, tender to the touch,
A heart that builds a home for others, gives before they ask for much,
You've learned that love requires proof, that trust is something earned,
You hold it close and measure it with every lesson learned,
But what you give to everyone you rarely give to you,
That careful kind of caring that you offer straight through,
The walls went up so quietly, you barely heard the sound,
But every wall that kept you safe has also kept you bound

[PreChorus]
You've carried it like duty when it should have felt like grace,
Let yourself be held the way you've held every other face

[Chorus]
You are the tide and the rock and the tide again,
The one who feels the earthquake but stays calm within,
You love like something ancient, like a root that doesn't break,
You're not too much — you're exactly what the world needs you to make,
Not too loud, not too still, not too far gone,
You were written in the kind of ink that lasts long after dawn

[Verse 3]
There's a rebel in the ribcage with no patience for pretend,
A truth-seeker, a question mark that refuses to bend,
You've looked at every broken thing and tried to understand,
Pulled the hidden meaning up and held it in your hand,
The tension between what you want and what the world demands,
Has been shaping something powerful in the marrow of your hands,
You don't fit inside the boxes and you never really did,
And that's the truest, fiercest thing that you have ever lived

[PreChorus]
The deepest parts of you aren't wounds — they're where the light got in,
And everything you've overcome is where your life begins

[Chorus]
You are the tide and the rock and the tide again,
The one who feels the earthquake but stays calm within,
You love like something ancient, like a root that doesn't break,
You're not too much — you're exactly what the world needs you to make,
Not too loud, not too still, not too far gone,
You were written in the kind of ink that lasts long after dawn

[Bridge]
You don't owe the world a performance, you don't owe them proof,
The moon doesn't explain herself when she lights up the roof,
And something in the cosmos laid the groundwork for your bones,
You are not what you've survived — you're what you've always known,
Stop waiting for permission to take up what is yours,
Every scar you carry forward is a key to different doors

[Outro]
So let the fire breathe without apologizing twice,
Let the softness stay beside the steel — you don't have to choose one life,
You are the tide and the rock all at once, and that is more than enough,
The whole sky mapped you carefully and called what you are — love