[Verse 1]
There's a tide inside you no one else can read
A current running deeper than your surface need
You carry whole oceans behind careful eyes
A warmth that could level the coldest of skies
You've mapped a thousand distant horizons in your mind
Always seeking something true, always trying to find
The meaning underneath the meaning, the truth behind the door
You don't just want to know the world — you need to know what's more

[PreChorus]
And still you hold it steady, still you hold it in
Like the ground beneath the winter waiting patient for the spring
You've learned to be the shelter when the shelter wasn't there
But darling, you deserve the kind of love you freely share

[Chorus]
Vally, you were written in a language soft and deep
You're the tide that guards the shoreline while the rest of the world sleeps
Every scar you carry quietly has slowly become gold
Vally, you are everything the universe has told

[Verse 2]
You've wondered if your presence really leaves a mark
If the fire that you're tending ever lights the dark
You've stretched yourself so carefully for everyone in reach
And swallowed down the words you most deserved to speak
There's a restlessness inside you that the world calls contradiction
But it's really just a soul too wide to fit in one direction
You feel the world so fully, every fracture, every ache
That half of what you carry isn't even yours to take

[PreChorus]
And still you hold it steady, still you build the flame
You've turned the weight of everything into something that remains
The loyalty you carry runs so ancient and so true
There are roots beneath the storm of you that nothing passes through

[Chorus]
Vally, you were written in a language soft and deep
You're the tide that guards the shoreline while the rest of the world sleeps
Every scar you carry quietly has slowly become gold
Vally, you are everything the universe has told

[Verse 3]
You love like someone building something meant to last
Protective, tender, steady — but you're haunted by the past
You've given home to people who forgot to give it back
And filled in all the silence with what others seemed to lack
But there's a compass pointing inward you've been learning to obey
A voice that says your worth was never something you had to pay
You're discovering that belonging starts somewhere close and true
That the home you've been constructing was always inside you

[PreChorus]
And still you hold it steady, still you find your ground
Still the depths of who you are keep turning wisdom into sound
The world you carry quietly inside your chest
Has always been the very thing that makes you manifest

[Chorus]
Vally, you were written in a language soft and deep
You're the tide that guards the shoreline while the rest of the world sleeps
Every scar you carry quietly has slowly become gold
Vally, you are everything the universe has told

[Bridge]
You don't have to earn the right to rest your weary bones
You don't have to prove the depth of all the love you've known
The cosmos wrote you carefully with ink that doesn't fade
Every tender, complex, luminous part of you was made
Not to be explained or fixed or quietly improved
But to be loved completely, every scar and every bruise

[Outro]
You are the still place in the center of the storm
You are the ancient warmth that keeps the wandering ones warm
You have always been enough — before you had to show it
The stars knew who you were, even when you didn't know it