If You Could Read My Mind

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IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND
GORDON LIGHTFOOT
Also Performed By: JOHNNY CASH

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If you could read my mind, love
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  What a  tale my thoughts could tell
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  Just like an old time movie
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  'bout a  ghost from a wishing-well
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  In a castle dark or a  fortress strong
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With chains upon my feet
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You know that ghost is me
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And I will never be set free
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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 that drugstores sell
When you reach the part where the heartaches come
The hero would be me
And heroes often fail
And you won't read that book again
Because the ending's just too hard to take

INSTRUMENTAL Over the first two lines of verse.
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  I'd walk away  like a  movie star
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Who gets burned in  a three way script
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And enter number two
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A movie queen to play the scene
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Of bringing all the good things out in me
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But for now, love, let's be real
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I never thought I could act this way
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And I've got to say that I just don't get it
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  I don't know where we went wrong
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But the feeling's gone
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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
The story always ends
I never knew 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