When It Signs

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