When It Sings Lyrics by Elvis Costello

When It Sings Lyrics

    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
    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

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