If You Could Read My Mind - Mark Lindsay

作曲：Gordon Lightfoot

If you could read my mind love

What a tale my thoughts could tell

Just like an old time movie

About 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 paperback novel

The kind that 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

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 feelings 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

About 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'll know that

I'm just trying to understand

The feelings that you lack

I never thought

I could feel this way

But I've got to say

That I just don't get it

I don't know

Where we went wrong

But the feelings gone

And I just can't get it back