If You Could Read My Mind Lyrics

Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind Lyrics

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If You Could Read My Mind Lyrics

If you could read my mind

love

What a tale my thoughts could tell.

Just like an old time movie



'Bout a ghost from a wishing well.

In a castle dark or a fortress strong



With chains upon my feet.

You know that ghost is me.

And I will never be set free

As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see.



If I could read your mind

love



What a tale your thoughts could tell.

Just like a paper back novel



The kind the drugstores sell.

Then you reached the part

Where the heartaches come



The hero would be me.

But heros often fail



And you won't read that book again

Because the ending 's just too hard to take!



I'd walk away like a movie star

Who gets burned in a threeway script.

Enter number two:

A movie queen to play the scene

Of bringing all the good things out of me.

But for now

love

let's be real;

I never thought I could feel this way

And I've got to say that I just don't get it.

I don't know where we went wrong



But the feelin's gone

And I just can't get it back.



If you could read my mind

love

What a tale my thoughts could tell.

Just like an old time movie



'Bout a ghost from a wishing well.

In a castle dark or a fortress strong



With chains upon my feet.

But stories always end

And if you read between the lines

You'd know that I'm just

Tryin' to understand the feelin's that you lack.



I never thought I could feel this way

And I've got to say that I just don't get it.

I don't know where we went wrong



But the feelin's gone

And I just can't get it back!