SONG: then i'll be smiling
ALBUM: still waiting for spring
STANDARD TUNING: CAPO 6
NOTE: : A* is just the note A, so no minor/major is determined. Beauty song, and not too tough. The only tough part is getting the dynamics between a soft verse and loud pre-chorus and chorus.

Transcribed by: ben goltz

Intro/Verse Pt.1
 C9    G       D
---3-3---3-3---h2-2-----------------------------------------------------------
---3-3---3-3----3-3-----------------------------------------------------------
---------------h2-2h4p2p0--x2-------------------------------------------------
-------------0----------------------------------------------------------------
-3----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------3----------------------------------------------------------------------
   
Verse Pt.2                                                                           
 Bm   C9      D
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---3----3----3-3--------------------------------------------------------------
---0----0---h2-2h4p2p0--x2----------------------------------------------------
-4-4--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-2----3-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-x----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                              
Pre-Chorus
 Am7      G/B      C                Em A*
-0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0-0-0------------------------------------------------
-1-1-1-1--3-3-3-3--1-0h1-1-0h1------------------------------------------------
-0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0-0-0--x2--------------------------------------------
-2-2-2-2--0-0-0-0--2-2-2-2-2-2------0-----------------------------------------
-0-0-0-0--2-2-2-2--3-3-3-3-3-3------2-----------------------------------------
-0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0-0-0------0-/5--------------------------------------
                                                                              
Chorus
 G     Dsus/F# G/E    C9          D                   D/C#
-3-3-3--3-3-3--3-3-3--3-3-3-------x-x---x-x-x-x-x-x---x-x-x-------------------
-3-3-3--3-3-3--3-3-3--3-3-3-------3-3---3-3-3-3-3-3---3-3-3-------------------
-0-0-0--0-0-0--0-0-0--0-0-0--x3---0-0h2-2-2-2-2-2-2---2-2-2-------------------
-0-0-0--0-0-0--0-0-0--0-0-0---------------------------0-0-0-------------------
-2-2-2--0-0-0--2-2-2--3-3-3---------------------------4-4-4-------------------
-3-3-3--2-2-2--0-0-0--0-0-0---------------------------x-x-x-------------------

Lyrics:
C9      G     D
Trailed by a mess
     C9 
Of masking tape
    G 
Construction paper 
         D
And the best of intentions
    Bm            C9        D 
He tried to patch up every hole as he went
Bm        C9        D
Back and forth and back again

And his friends half full of half concerns
Embarrassed looks and tired words
They burrowed deeper 
Into the ignorant little lives they preferred
And he envied their distance
Their lack of concern
He thought,

Am7    G/B                  C
Once I shed the whole of me
Am7    G/B                  C
Once I shed the whole of me
Em              A*
Then I'll be smiling

He cursed himself
And his instinct to nurse every idea to health
And all of the falls that he'd spent
Trying to coax his name from the mouths of success
He thought

Once I shed the whole of me
Once I shed the whole of me
Then I'll be smiling
  
    G     Dsus/F#    G/E      C9   
They litter me with small awarenesses
G       Dsus/F#      G/E      C9
Then they ask if I'm good enough
G    Dsus/F#    G/E      C9
Litter me with small awarenesses
D
     Just to wake me up
D/C#
     Why do the fools wake me up

Intro x1
Verse Pt.1 x1
Verse Pt.2 x1
Verse Pt.1 x1
Verse Pt.2 x1
Pre-Chorus x2
Verse Pt.1 x1
Verse Pt.2 x1
Pre-Chorus x2
Chorus x1
Pre-Chorus x2
Chorus x2
Intro x1