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You Make Me Smile

Blue October

RockAdvanced for beginners5 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

D××
Bm×
F#mDiagram coming soon
A×
G

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Capo on 2nd fret
              This song is the same four chords throughout with a small change in the bridge. 
I rated this intermediate due to the barre chords, but you can transpose it down 2 half steps 
and use a  
Capo on 2 for a beginner version. 
 
 
INTRO 
Some kind of light at the end... 
When touching the edge of her skin 
 
D  Bm  F#m  A (x2) 
 
 
VERSE 
         D                    Bm  
Once so hard to speak, now so easy to play around 
              F#m         A      
Catching your eye you know 
                D                                   Bm 
That eye that slapped you in your face, calls you a puppy 
                          F#m              A 
Well how do you say I was hypnotized - Hypnotized 
   D                      Bm 
My words, they pour like children to the playground 
F#m                          A 
Children to the playground - You make me smile  
 
 
 
D 
There's some kind of light at the end 
Bm 
Stoned, forgetful, and then 
F#m 
I'm drinking what used to be sin 
A 
And touching the edge of her skin 
 
 
VERSE 
    D                                Bm    
And could you be the one that's not afraid 
                  F#m    A 
To look me in the eye 
   D                                 Bm   
I swear I would collapse if I would tell  
                  F#m          A   
how I think you fell from the sky 
   D                      Bm 
My words, they pour like children to the playground 
F#m                          A 
Children to the playground - You make me smile  
 
 
D 
There's some kind of light at the end 
Bm 
Stoned, forgetful, and then 
F#m 
I'm drinking what used to be sin 
A 
And touching the edge of her skin 2x
 
 
BRIDGE 
Bm                                    D   
It's the feeling I get, my palms with sweat 
                                      F#m 
Like some kind of daydream I'll never forget 
                                      A 
I'm stuck in this spin where does it begin 
 
By touching the edge of her skin 
Bm                                    D   
It's the feeling I get, my palms with sweat 
                                      F#m 
Like some kind of daydream I'll never forget 
                                      G 
I'm stuck in this spin where does it begin 
 
By touching the edge of her skin 
 
 
 
D 
There's some kind of light at the end 
Bm 
Stoned, forgetful, and then 
F#m 
I'm drinking what used to be sin 
A 
And touching the edge of her skin 2x
 
 
OUTRO 
D  Bm  F#m  A   
Whoa.. Whoa.. Whoa..  (repeat until you are sick of playing it.) 
          
 

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Chord set

D · Bm · F#m · A · G

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.