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This song will likely sound better on guitar in drop D tuning.
D A/C# D/C Bm Bb 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 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