When It Sings

[Verse 1]

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

[Bridge 1]

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

[Verse 2]

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

[Bridge 2]

But a voice contains all that's true and false

Then cries for someone else

And for some honest tenderness

So I must confess

[Verse 1]

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