Elvis Costello – When It Sings (Guitar)

         D               A/C#     D/C
All the words you say to me have music in them

         Bm              Bb         A
All the sorrows and the joys, like magnetism

       G            F#m    Em
And a selfish boy looks through a prism

     C        Bm      Bb   A         D
And says what is but never asks what isn't

                Bm                   G
But a voice contains many precious things

    C#m                F#m
It laughs and then it sings

             F/D F7             Gm/D
And all the lies    that we can tell

   Bb Bbsus4 A+ A6   A-5
e|----------------------|
B|-6---------6--7-------|
G|----8--------------8--|
D|----------------------|
A|----------------------|
D|-8*--------7*---------|  *let ring
  To our    foolish selves

        D          A/C#          D/C
Maybe this is the love song that I refused to

  Bm              Bb        A
Write her when I loved her like I used to

       G              F#m Em
And I fear my heart may spin and fracture

      C        Bm    Bb       A      D
Like tears of stone falling from a statue

                Bm                        G
But a voice contains all that's true and false

       C#m             F#m
Then cries for someone else

              F/D   F7       Gm/D
And for some honest   tenderness

Bb Bsus4 A+   A6 A-5
So I    must confess

          D               A/C#     D/C
All the words you say to me have music in them

         Bm              Bb         A
All the sorrows and the joys, like magnetism

       G            F#m    Em
And a selfish boy looks through a prism

     C        Bm      Bb   A         D
And says what is but never asks what isn't