Standard (EADGBE)

Aiko, geography has got the better of us again

 I know you wanna go

 And I am to be singing

 To the tail of an aeroplane

 So I fold these pieces of gold

 Into animals so I can fashion a chain

 That will bridge the gap accross these continents

Aiko, your fatherless smile has been summoned to other shores

 There's a man over there with a gentleman's bow

 Who invites you to take to the floor

 Pack your traveling case

 With your ribbons and lace

 For his blood must be furnished with excellent taste

 But it might burn a hole into your paper face

 And so you run towards the things you haven't got

 Just to say goodbye again

 But do you think of me as he unlocks your knees

 At the Terrace Garden?

Pretty pictures in the window blinds

 Looking out looks so good with the winter behind

 Like it is playing a banjo to a Tennessee line

 And the reeds are like cowboys perfectly aligned

 Does the sky over Tokyo know

 How a river can flow like the stroke

 Of a violin bow?

 Like a hand will run across the milky sky

 But you can take these trees

 And this summer breeze

 On this stupid looking day

 And you can send it all to the Japanese

 Now my love has gone away.

(Japanese verse) (?)

 And if you see Aiko

 Or Sayee

 Let her know

 That she dances in my dreams.