Nahko and Medicine for the People - Aloha Ke Akua

      [Verse 1]
C#m        F#m   C#m        A
Lend your ears, lend your hands
F#           A                    C#m
Lend your movement, anything you can
C#m
Come to teach, come to be taught
A             F#m            A
Come in the likeness in the image of God
                C#m
'Cause you can be like that
                 F#m           G#      B
With all that humbleness, and all that respect
          F#m                 E
All of the power invested in me
C#m    F#m             A
Be it hard to love my enemies
             E                   G#m          E       G#m
All of the black bags over the heads of the dead and dying
     F#m                         C#m
The more I understand about the human race
     A                 F#m      A
The less I comprehend about our purpose and place
F#m            E
And maybe if there was a clearer line
       G#m
The curiosity would satisfy
F#m                         E
Time-based prophecies that kept me from living
        A
In the moment I am struggling
    C#m               F#m  E
To trust the divinity of all the guides
              G#m                       B  G#m
And what the hell they have planned for us
F#m                              A     C#m
I cry for the creatures who get left behind
    A                             F#m        C#m
But everything will change in a blink of an eye
C#m
And if you wish to survive
                   E    G#m
You will find the guide inside

[Verse 2]
     C#m
I go back and forth every single day
    A
The clarity it comes to me in the choppy waves
          E
As the feelings and the places
And the seasons change
     G#m
The galaxies remain
C#m
Energy fields pullin’ up out of this space
A
The angels that are composting the spiritual waste
       E
The hate that gets me displaced from my spiritual place
G#m                                                  C#m
Ten fold the manna when the planets are in place, in polar alignment
A
We’re on assignment
E
Bodies on consignment
G#m
Return them to the circus
C#m
And what is the purpose?
  A                     E
What is the purpose and would you believe it?
G#m
Would you believe it

[Pre-Chorus 1]
         A                  B
If you knew what you were for
             E        G#m
And how you became so informed?
          A                       B
Bodies of info performing such miracles
          E                 G#m
I am a miracle made up of particles
               A
And in this existence
             B
I’ll stay persistent
                    E
And I’ll make a difference
                 G#m
And I will have lived it

[Chorus]
C#m     E                  G#m  D#m
Aloha, Aloha Ke Akua, Ke Akua
C#m    A        G#m      B
Aloha, Aloha, Kuleana, Kuleana
C#m     E                  G#m  D#m
Aloha, Aloha Ke Akua, Ke Akua
C#m    A        G#m      B
Aloha, Aloha, Kuleana, Kuleana

[Verse 3]
C#m
I’m not a leader, just a creature
Seeking the features of a teacher
                                   A
Whether you follow or whether you lead
                                          E
All mysterious ways of nature and I’m into it (I'm into it)
          G#m        B
Changing management (oh)
                 C#m
And there are various ways to conquer this monotonous metropolis
   A
My stubbornness is bottomless
    D                         E
My fearlessness is talking shit
And I’m wide awake (I'm wide awake)
          G#m
And I’m taking names (And I'm taking names)
         C#m
Do you speak to me like you speak to God?
           A
All of the love and understanding between the father and the son?
         C#m
Do you believe in the perfectness of where you are?
              A
These are my people, these are my children
This is the land that I would fight for
      C#m
My solidarity is telling me to patiently.
                  A
Be moving the musical medicine around the planet in a hurry
               E
'Cause there’s no time to wait (there's no time to wait)
             G#m
I gotta to wake up my babies, time to stand up and say

[Pre-Chorus 2]
    A                B
We know what we are for
            E          G#m
And how we became so informed
            A                    B
Bodies of info, performing such miracles
        E                   G#m
I am a miracle, made up of particles
               A
And in this existence
               B
I’ll stay persistent
                  E
And I’ll make a difference
                   G#m
And I will have lived it

[Chorus]
C#m     A        E        G#m
Aloha, Aloha Ke Akua, Ke Akua
C#m    A       E         G#m
Aloha, Aloha, Kuleana, Kuleana

[Post-Chorus]
C#m              A
Each day that I wake
         E             G#m
I will praise, I will praise
      C#m        A
Each day that I wake
          E            G#m
I give thanks, I give thanks
      C#m         A
Each day that I wake
          E             G#m
I will praise, I will praise
     C#m          A
Each day that I wake
        E             G#m
I give thanks, I give thanks

[Outro]
C#m
And the day that I don’t wake up
F#        B
And transcend the holy make-up
A       C#m         G#m
I am capable, I am powerful
F#m
The day that I don’t wake up
      A
And transcend the holy make-up
    G#m               E           G#m F#m
I am on my way to a different place

F#m
The day that I don’t wake up
And transcend the holy make-up
A     E       A    G#m
I am capable, I am powerful
F#m
The day that I don’t wake up
     A
And transcend the holy make-up
     E               G#m
I am on my way to a different place