Copied from: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/When_It_Sings This song will likely sound better on guitar in drop D tuning. / / All the words you say to me have music in them All the sorrows and the joys like magnetism And a selfish boy looks through a prism And says what is but never asks what isn’t But a voice contains many precious things It laughs and then it sings And all the lies that we can tell Bbsus4 + -5 ||------------|| G||----8------------8--|| ||------------|| D||-8*--------7*---------|| *let ring To our foolish selves Maybe this is the love song that I refused to Write her when I loved her like I used to And I fear my heart may spin and fracture Like tears of stone falling from a statue But a voice contains all that’s true and false Then cries for someone else And for some honest tenderness So I must confess All the words you say to me have music in them All the sorrows and the joys like magnetism And a selfish boy looks through a prism And says what is but never asks what isn’t