UP: AT MY MOST BEAUTIFUL

  Another great track! It's hitsville with these guys, geez why were they ever a four piece? Just you wait! This was an idea for a song Michael had when Bill was still in the band, having the line 'I found a way to make you smile' he gave the idea for a Beach Boys inspired song to Mike and Peter. Surprise! They came up with something, but then Michael had to think of things to make someone smile--and it only took him a year! It wasn't as dramatic as coming up with the 'Man on the Moon' lyric, but pretty rough! In the end, the final inspiration struck and it took him a further 45 minutes to complete the song. An all around beautiful song, but it feels a tad on the short side which might have been why the single for it wasn't released until five months after the album came out. Someone was looking for the slow burn on sales for this album. Michael has claimed this is his first un-ironic love song and there might be something to that, it's him at his most sincere for sure but could we maybe take 'Be Mine' at face value? Or 'Strange Currencies?' 'Near Wild Heaven' anyone? In any case, the song doesn't dwell on metaphor or simile, it simply talks about real examples of beauty. Love the video by the way:



AT MY MOST BEAUTIFUL

I've found a way to make you
I've found a way
A way to make you smile

I read bad poetry
Into your machine
I save your messages
Just to hear your voice
You always listen carefully
To awkward rhymes
You always say your name
Like I wouldn't know it's you
At your most beautiful

I've found a way to make you
I've found a way
A way to make you smile

At my most beautiful
I count your eyelashes secretly
With every one whisper I love you
I let you sleep
I know you're closed eye watching me
Listening
I thought I saw a smile

I've found a way to make you
I've found a way
A way to make you smile

  For this one, I've posted guitar chords below and here is a link to where you can see the sheet music online. I might someday post Piano Tab as I've done before, but honestly I am short one piano at present. The chords below are also somewhat found on the sheet music, but I think substituting the Am during the coda sounds better. There is no guitar on this song, but there is the occasional banjo mutely picked to the chords below.

AT MY MOST BEAUTIFUL

Guitar Chords

Bridge to Chorus: (‘Do, do’s’)

F-Fmaj7-D-D

Chorus (‘I found a way … ’)

Gm-F-Bb (x2), Gm-F-Bb-C-F

Verse

Am-Bb-Gm-F (Last time through go to C before F like in the Chorus)

Coda

Gm-Am-Bb (x2), Gm-Am-Bb-C-F

End on F