[Verse 1]
There's a stillness that you carry like a hand pressed to a flame
The kind that burns so quietly that no one knows your name
You see the threads beneath the surface, read the room before it speaks
They see composure, never knowing what that steadiness costs weeks
You've learned to hold your fire low, to keep the current out of sight
But there's an ocean turning underneath that calm exterior light
You think in layers others miss, you feel in depths they'll never find
A mind that won't leave anything unturned until the truth's defined

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And the world only sees the shore
Never the tides you've carried before
But everything you are runs so much deeper than they know

[Chorus]
You were written in the dark and the deep and the wide
In the pull of every current and the turn of every tide
You are ancient in your knowing, you are luminous and true
The cosmos didn't make a rough draft when it carefully made you
Every contradiction is a doorway, every wound became a well
You don't have to keep explaining what your silence knows to tell
You were written in the dark and the deep and the wide
You are whole, you are held, you are gloriously alive

[Verse 2]
There's a part of you that's never quite belonged to just one thing
Too vast for easy answers, too alive to stop questioning
You've loved in ways that left you open, loved in ways that left you bare
Given everything before they asked and hoped they'd meet you there
But love was never small for you, it either burns or it transforms
You don't do surface, you do soul, you'd rather weather all the storms
You've built a careful architecture where your trust lives under key
Not because you're broken, but because you know what love should be

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And you've waited for the one who stays
Who meets the depth and doesn't look away
You deserve the kind of love that knows exactly what it holds

[Chorus]
You were written in the dark and the deep and the wide
In the pull of every current and the turn of every tide
You are ancient in your knowing, you are luminous and true
The cosmos didn't make a rough draft when it carefully made you
Every contradiction is a doorway, every wound became a well
You don't have to keep explaining what your silence knows to tell
You were written in the dark and the deep and the wide
You are whole, you are held, you are gloriously alive

[Verse 3]
You've always had a hunger for the meaning underneath the act
A restlessness that builds a fire and never quite looks back
You've chased horizons not because you're running from the ground
But because something in you always knew there's more to be found
And you carry both the dreamer and the one who does the work
The idealist who builds the vision, and the one who won't desert
When others couldn't hold their end, you quietly held it all
The one who reads the room and rights the balance when things fall

[PreChorus 3]
But even anchors need a place to land
Even steady hands need someone's hand
You are allowed to need and still be everything you are

[Chorus]
You were written in the dark and the deep and the wide
In the pull of every current and the turn of every tide
You are ancient in your knowing, you are luminous and true
The cosmos didn't make a rough draft when it carefully made you
Every contradiction is a doorway, every wound became a well
You don't have to keep explaining what your silence knows to tell
You were written in the dark and the deep and the wide
You are whole, you are held, you are gloriously alive

[Verse 4]
There was a time you measured worth by what the outside world could see
By how much you produced, how much you proved, how useful you could be
And somewhere in that early learning something told you: not enough
That you'd have to earn your place here, that existing wasn't tough
But that was someone else's story dressed in your familiar voice
And you've been slowly, fiercely learning that your presence is the choice
The world doesn't need a version of you hollowed out and tried
It needs the one who carries all of this and hasn't run to hide

[PreChorus 4]
Because what you've survived became your sight
What you've endured became your light
And everything you are was always worth the finding

[Chorus]