When It Sings Lyrics - North - Elvis Costello

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 

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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 

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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