IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND         Gordon Lightfoot

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 If you could read my mind, love,   what a tale my thoughts would tell
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 Just like an old time movie   'bout a ghost from a wishing well
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 In a castle dark or a fortress strong with chains upon my feet
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 But now that ghost is me
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 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 would tell
Just like a paperback novel, the kind the drugstores sell.
When you reach the part where the heartaches come,
The hero would be me, but heroes 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 three way script.
Enter number two,
A movie queen who could act the scene
Of bringing all the good things out in me.
But for now love, let's be real.
I never thought I could act this way
And I gotta say that I just don't get it:
I don't know where we went wrong but the feeling's gone
And I just can't get it back.



If you could.... ....chains upon my feet

But stories always end,

And if you read between the lines

You'll know that I'm just tryin' to understand the feelin's that you lack.

I never thought ....   can't get it back