[Verse 1]
There's a tide inside you no one stops to read,
A current running deeper than the eye can see,
You hold the room together while you hold yourself apart,
A shelter built for others from the rooms inside your heart,
You've given more than taken, been the one who stays,
A quiet kind of faithful burning through the haze

[PreChorus]
But the calm they see is only half the truth,
There's a fire in the undertow, a storm inside the roots

[Chorus]
You are the ocean and the ember both,
The steady hand, the wild and the devoted oath,
You carry what is ancient, you were made to last,
You are more than what you've weathered, you are more than what has passed

[Verse 2]
You've poured yourself into the ones you love,
Given freely, asked for nothing, always been enough,
But somewhere in the giving you forgot to keep a part,
Forgot that you were worthy of the care inside your heart,
You've worked like the horizon, always out of reach,
But the ground beneath you honors every lesson you have beached

[PreChorus]
You've built your worth in what your hands could prove,
But the truest thing about you never needed something to prove

[Chorus]
You are the ocean and the ember both,
The steady hand, the wild and the devoted oath,
You carry what is ancient, you were made to last,
You are more than what you've weathered, you are more than what has passed

[Verse 3]
Your mind moves like lightning through a patient sky,
You think in ways the world won't catch for years gone by,
You love with something grand and rare and deeply held,
A loyalty that only deepens when it's been compelled,
You've broken what was broken so that something new could grow,
A builder of the legacy that only quiet spirits know

[PreChorus]
The cosmos wrote you carefully, with ink that will not fade,
Every twist and every turning was the architecture of your grace

[Chorus]
You are the ocean and the ember both,
The steady hand, the wild and the devoted oath,
You carry what is ancient, you were made to last,
You are more than what you've weathered, you are more than what has passed

[Bridge]
Let the roots go deeper, let the walls come down,
Every scar you carry is the map to hallowed ground,
You don't have to earn the space you've always been allowed,
You were written in the heavens and you're worthy to be proud

[Outro]
Rest now in the knowing, you are held and you are whole,
The stars aligned on purpose when they fashioned you a soul,
You are guided, you are grounded, you are finally enough,
You were always, always worth it, you were always made of love