Secret Smile
Here are the names of the piano chords in the original key of Bbminor:
verses and chorus: Bbm7 Ebm9 Ab Gb Ab/Gb bass
Bridge: Db6 Eb Ab Db
Semisonic plays the song live in the key of Am, mainly because Dan only uses the standard tuning of EADGBE for his guitars.
Or you can play the guitar part capo’ed up one fret, using these transposed chords (as though the capo first fret were now called the 0th fret or open string.) There is a pattern of two notes alternating within each chord, open G and A. So each chord has three voicings, the first with a G in it, second with A, third with G again.
Am7EADGBEX02010
Am
EADGBE
X02210 Am7
EADGBE
X02010
Nobody knows it, but
Dm11EADGBEXX0031
Dm
EADGBE
XX0231 Dm11
EADGBE
XX0031
You’ve got a se- cret
GEADGBE3X0033
G9
EADGBE
3X0233 G
EADGBE
3X0033
smile and you use it
FEADGBEX33011
F9
EADGBE
X33211 F
EADGBE
X33011
Only for me
The bridge is four chords repeated:
C6 (piano plays the 6th)
D9EADGBE332010
D11
EADGBE
554030 G
EADGBE
3X0033 C
EADGBE
332010
Secret Smile
Nobody knows it but you’ve got a secret smile
And you use it only for me
Nobody knows it but you’ve got a secret smile
And you use it only for me
So use it and prove it
Remove this whirling sadness
I’m losing, I’m bluesing
But you can save me from madness
Nobody knows it but you’ve got a secret smile
And you use it only for me
Nobody knows it but you’ve got a secret smile
And you use it only for me
So save me I’m waiting
I’m needing, hear me pleading
And soothe me, improve me
I’m grieving, I’m barely believing now, now
When you are flying around and around the world
And I’m lying alonely
I know there’s something sacred and free reserved
And received by me only