[Verse 1]
There's a tide that runs beneath the surface of your skin,
A whole ocean that the world has never fully looked within,
You tend to everyone around you, quiet as the dawn,
While the deepest parts of you keep carrying on and on,
You show up steady, you show up calm, you make it look so clean,
But there's a whole internal weather that nobody else has seen,
You feel the room before you enter, sense the shift before it's said,
You carry other people's unspoken things inside your head

[PreChorus 1]
And you've been wondering if all that giving leaves enough for you,
If the one who holds the world gets to be held too,
Well let me tell you something that you already know somewhere inside,
That depth you carry isn't burden, it's the rarest kind of light

[Chorus 1]
Lori, you were written in the language of the tide,
Every current, every hidden thing, every pull you feel inside,
You are not too much, you are not too still, you are not too hard to know,
You are ancient, you are tender, you are worth the overflow,
Lori, let the moon that shaped you finally call you home,
You were never meant to hold all of this alone

[Verse 2]
You've got a mind that moves like weather, quick and warm and wide,
A thousand conversations happening simultaneously inside,
You can read a room like braille, find the meaning in between,
Say the thing that names the feeling no one else could even see,
But there's a quiet contradiction living somewhere in your chest,
Between the woman who keeps moving and the one who needs to rest,
Between the one who craves the closeness and the one who guards the door,
You've been both of these forever, learning what each one is for

[PreChorus 2]
You've built your worth on being useful, being needed, being there,
Like if you stopped for just a moment, someone wouldn't get their share,
But the love that lives inside you doesn't come from what you do,
It was already whole and holy, it was always fully you

[Chorus 2]
Lori, you were written in the language of the tide,
Every current, every hidden thing, every pull you feel inside,
You are not too much, you are not too still, you are not too hard to know,
You are ancient, you are tender, you are worth the overflow,
Lori, let the moon that shaped you finally call you home,
You were never meant to hold all of this alone

[Verse 3]
You love like something that takes time, like something that runs deep,
Like a promise made in winter that you're still intending to keep,
You don't give your heart in pieces, when you love, you love entire,
But you've been burned enough to know the careful distance from the fire,
Relationships have schooled you in a language made of loss,
You've learned to weigh the beauty of connection against the cost,
But every scar has made you wiser, every wall has kept you true,
And the ones who earn your trust will find a universe in you

[PreChorus 3]
There's a path that's been unfolding, reaching further than you've gone,
Through the searching and the longing and the questions you've held on,
The meaning that you've chased through every doorway and every year,
Has been quietly assembling, and it's been getting clear

[Chorus 3]
Lori, you were written in the language of the tide,
Every current, every hidden thing, every pull you feel inside,
You are not too much, you are not too still, you are not too hard to know,
You are ancient, you are tender, you are worth the overflow,
Lori, let the moon that shaped you finally call you home,
You were never meant to hold all of this alone

[Verse 4]
You were shaped in quiet places, in the spaces between sound,
Where the light works through the layers and the roots go deep in ground,
There's a warmth that moves around you that you don't always believe,
Something generous and luminous that others always see,
You've questioned your own value like it had to be explained,
Like the life you've lived so fully somehow had to be sustained,
But you came here with a compass, and it's been pointing all along,
To the