Gordon Lightfoot

If you could read my mind

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 (fine I)
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 paperback novel,
the kind the drugstores sell
Then you reached 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 to play the scene
of bringing all the good things out in 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 feeling's gone, and I just can't get it back (fine II) 

da capo al fine I

(Coda:)
But stories always end
And if you read between the lines,
you'd know that I'm just trying to understand
the feeling's that you lack.

dal $egno al fine II

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