Elvis Costello When It Sings Lyrics

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