[Verse 1]
There's a current underneath the still you show the world,
A depth of feeling running wide, impossibly unfurled,
You dream in colors no one else can name or even hold,
And you carry ancient knowing that was never really told,
They see the surface — soft, composed, a gentle kind of grace,
But there's a whole ocean turning tides behind that steady face

[PreChorus]
You've been pouring out for others while you quietly run dry,
Giving every room your warmth before they even ask you why

[Chorus]
Essence, you are the tide and the shore,
The dreamer who was built to give the world something more,
You don't have to bleed to prove that your love is real,
You are whole, you are enough, every part of what you feel

[Verse 2]
You think in metaphors and moonlight, feel before you speak,
There's a brilliance in the way your mind goes searching every week,
Not for answers but for meaning — for the truth behind the truth,
You've been questioning the heavens since the days of your youth,
The world calls it indecision, but you know it's something more,
You're refusing to stop digging when there's something worth exploring for

[PreChorus]
The home you build inside yourself took longer than you planned,
But everything you've rooted there was placed by your own hands

[Chorus]
Essence, you are the tide and the shore,
The dreamer who was built to give the world something more,
You don't have to bleed to prove that your love is real,
You are whole, you are enough, every part of what you feel

[Verse 3]
You love like something lit from somewhere none of them can trace,
You dive in first and all the way, no halfway, no half-grace,
And when it burns too bright too fast, you rise and love again,
Not because you're reckless — because you still believe in when,
They call it boldness, call it fire, call it too much to contain,
But that's the courage of a heart that keeps on opening through the rain

[PreChorus]
You were never meant to shrink yourself to fit inside their frame,
The world was meant to widen just to hold you and your name

[Chorus]
Essence, you are the tide and the shore,
The dreamer who was built to give the world something more,
You don't have to bleed to prove that your love is real,
You are whole, you are enough, every part of what you feel

[Verse 4]
There are roots in you that go below the ground where others stop,
You've excavated family pain and didn't let it drop,
You turned the weight of what you've carried into something like a gift,
A generational ache that only someone like you could lift,
The ache of never quite belonging, standing just outside the door,
Is the very wound that taught you what you're actually here for

[PreChorus]
The cosmos didn't build you plain — it wrote you carefully,
With ink that bends toward purpose and a soul that dares to see

[Chorus]
Essence, you are the tide and the shore,
The dreamer who was built to give the world something more,
You don't have to bleed to prove that your love is real,
You are whole, you are enough, every part of what you feel

[Bridge]
Let the stillness be enough, let the seeking be your prayer,
What you carry isn't heavy when you know that it is rare,
You were written in the deep, where the light still finds a way,
And everything you are right now is all you need today

[Outro]
Essence, the tide always returns to shore,
You were never lost — you were always becoming more,
Rest in that, rest in this, rest in all that you are,
You were mapped by something ancient, and it hasn't led you far