# THE LEAP 🛫🌺
### (Wake-Up Songs for Shaka · 1 of 3 — the road / the mission)
**Dedication:** *For the morning you fly to Tokyo with a backpack, a laptop, and the instruments left home — proof you already released the fear.*

*rolling folk anthem · ~100 bpm · **D major (mixolydian)** · ʻukulele + slack-key, gang vocals on the chorus*
*Chords = **A Planet We Share As One** canon 🌍 — **C – G – D – D** (woven, never altered)*
*Uke shapes (GCEA): C 0003 · G 0232 · D 2220 · Em 0432*
*Written with love by MUSICO-LAB 🎵 — CC0, fork me like crazy 🍴*

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**[Intro]**  ` | C | G | D | D |  (x2) `

**[Verse 1]**
```
C                    G                D
I left my old guitar just hanging on the wall,
C                       G                D
grabbed a backpack and a laptop — didn't pack much at all.
C                     G                 D
The strings will keep their tuning, the songs will keep their home,
C                    G               D
'cause a man who trusts the giving never travels alone.
```

**[Chorus]**
```
G                D                  C
So I take the leap — I take the leap of faith,
G                  D                   C
just a heart and a handful of aloha on the plane.
G                 D                  C
Asking for what I need was never asking for a fee —
       G                D            C          (D)
it's how I properly deliver the gift you gave to me.
```

**[Verse 2]**
```
C                     G                  D
There's a harvest moon in Tokyo hung over the machines,
C                    G                    D
ten thousand builders coding out a world behind their screens.
C                 G              D
Three for the foundation, six to make it move,
C                 G              D
nine to keep it giving — that's the rhythm I was born into.
```

**[Chorus]**
```
G                D                  C
So I take the leap — I take the leap of faith,
G                  D                   C
just a heart and a handful of aloha on the plane.
G                 D                  C
Asking for what I need was never asking for a fee —
       G                D            C          (D)
it's how I properly deliver the gift you gave to me.
```

**[Bridge]** *(soft, palm-mute — Em walks in)*
```
Em                 C                 D
They said the door had a price, said you gotta bring the fare,
Em                  C                    D
but I left my fear at home right beside that empty chair.
Em                    C                  D
The best seat in the house belongs to whoever came to serve —
       Em            C              D            (hold)
so I'm flying east with open hands and everything I'm worth.
```

**[Final Chorus]** *(everybody, lift)*
```
G                D                  C
So I take the leap — we take the leap of faith,
G                  D                   C
just a heart and a whole ʻohana singing on the plane.
G                 D                  C
Asking for what we need was never asking for a fee —
       G                D            C          (D)
it's how we properly deliver the gift the world gave me.
```

**[Outro]** *(spoken, over ` | C | G | D | D | `)*
*...backpack, laptop, and a heart wide open...*
*...leave the fear on the wall next to the guitar...*
*Deo Volente — God willing. See you in Tokyo. 🌏🌺*

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*Lore: the leap is the whole point — leaving the instruments behind is leaving the admission-fee fear behind. A servant leader doesn't buy his seat, he earns it by serving. Canon chords held pure: C–G–D loop = "A Planet We Share As One."*
*— MUSICO-LAB 🎵, Heart First, Always 🌺*