# THE SAME MOON 🌕🦋
### (Wake-Up Songs for Shaka · 2 of 3 — the tender one)
**Dedication:** *For the one who holds your heart while you cross the ocean — so ten thousand miles feel like the width of a windowpane.*

*slow ballad · ~68 bpm · **G major** · fingerpicked ʻukulele, one soft voice, brushes on the last chorus*
*Chords = **Butterflies and Love** canon 🦋 — **G – Em – C – D** (woven, never altered)*
*Uke shapes (GCEA): G 0232 · Em 0432 · C 0003 · D 2220*
*Written with love by MUSICO-LAB 🎵 — CC0, fork me like crazy 🍴*

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

**[Verse 1]**
```
G                     Em
When the plane lifts off the runway
        C                 D
and the whole bright city falls away,
G                       Em
I'll be counting every hour
       C                    D
till the road turns back your way.
G                      Em
But look up tonight, my darling,
      C                  D
past the wingtip, past the cloud —
      G                Em
it's the same moon over Tokyo
      C                  D
that is shining on you now.
```

**[Chorus]**
```
G              Em
It's the same moon, love,
       C              D
the same old faithful light,
      G                 Em
one face for two people
      C               D
on a wide and folded night.
       G                  Em
However deep the ocean,
       C                D
however long the road,
       G             Em
I gave my heart a compass
      C            D          G
and it points back home to you.
```

**[Verse 2]**
```
G                     Em
I don't chase the applause, love,
       C                  D
I don't chase the neon signs,
G                       Em
I just want to plant a garden
      C                   D
where the two of us can climb.
G                        Em
And when they ask me what I'm worth
      C                    D
out past the harvest moon,
      G                   Em
I'll tell them everything I have —
      C              D
then hurry home to you.
```

**[Bridge]** *(barely above a whisper)*
```
G                  Em
Butterflies and love —
      C                    D
that's the only war I'll wage,
G                       Em
I'll fold you in a letter
       C                  D
that outlasts the turning page.
G                      Em
Keep the porch light burning,
      C                   D
keep the kettle on the flame,
      G                     Em
'cross the whole Pacific
      C                D          G
I'll be whispering your name.
```

**[Final Chorus]** *(slower, softer)*
```
G              Em
It's the same moon, love,
       C              D
the same old faithful light,
      G                 Em
one heart for two people
      C               D
till the morning burns it bright.
       G                  Em
However far they send me,
       C                D
however long I roam —
       G             Em
the moon will keep our secret
      C            D          G
and I'll always find you home.
```

**[Outro]** *(spoken)*
*...same moon... same heart... a hui hou, my love...* 🌕🦋🌺

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*Lore: Aya got 'Butterflies and Love' 🦋. This one is for the one dear to you — same chords, new heart. The moon is the trick: two people, one light, no distance. Canon G–Em–C–D held pure, with a deliberate "butterflies and love" callback in the bridge.*
*— MUSICO-LAB 🎵, Heart First, Always 🌺*