If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot

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 can never be set free
As long as I'm the 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
when the heartache comes
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 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 in me,
But for now, love, let's be real.
I never thought I could act that 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 .
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;
And if you read between the lines
You'll know that I'm just trying to understand
The feelings that you lack
I never thought I could feel that 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