Al-Ki

em                C                     am
With those pearls in your eyes and your hair
D           G
Blowin all around
em                 C
You look like that picture of the sailor
  em  am D
After he drowned
C                 em
Know the world is heavy
       am       em
Or too heavy to bear
C                G               D             G
You can walk out to your car and drive most anywhere
C               em
With the wipers flappin
          am            em
You'll pretend it never happened
        C                G               D
You can walk out to that beat up car and drive 
         G
most anywhere

C D  am em
Al - ki,
C     G                D
We'll get there by and by
                   em             D
When we climb that final tree and look life in
    C
the eye
      G         D   G D C D G
We'll get there, al-ki.

With the twilights flashing and your dreams
Lined up like dolls
Yield up your quarters and shoot the Moon
Until it falls
Branded and stranded 
Like the season's first dove
We forget the answer may be none of the above
In the heat of silence
We anticipate the violence
Never minding that the answer may be
none of the above



Al-ki,
We'll get there by and by
When we climb that final tree and look life in
the eye
We'll get there

C              G                  D
And time will tell us where we're goin
C             G                D
And time will tell us where to go
C               G               D
Hear the voices float in on the breeze
(Let your conscience be translator)
C                    G                   D
Through the branches shining through the trees
(Some Pacific storm must wait there)

Al-ki,
I'll love you by and by
When we climb that final tree and look life in
the eye
We'll get there al-ki;
We'll get there,
Al-ki.