Chord When It Signs by Elvis Costello

copied from : this song will likely sound better on guitar in drop D tuning . D A/C# D/C Bm A# A G F#m Em G F#m Em D A/C# D/C all the words you say to me have music in them Bm A# A all the sorrows and the joys , like magnetism G F#m Em and a selfish boy looks through a prism C Bm A# 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 A# A#sus4 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 A# 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 A# 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 A# 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 A# A all the sorrows and the joys , like magnetism G F#m Em and a selfish boy looks through a prism C Bm A# A D and says what is but never asks what isn’t