If You Could Read My Mind lyrics Gordon Lightfoot

If You Could Read My Mind Lyrics

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 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 paper back novel

The kind the drugstores sell.
Then you reached the part
Where the heartaches come

The hero would be me.
But heros 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 threeway script.
Enter number two:
A movie queen to play the scene
Of bringing all the good things out of 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 feelin'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.
But stories always end
And if you read between the lines
You'd know that I'm just
Tryin' to understand the feelin's that you lack.

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 feelin's gone
And I just can't get it back!