[ti:If You Could Read My Mind ]
[ar:Gordon Lightfoot]
[al:]
[00:09.41]If you could read my mind, love,
[00:13.03]What a tale my thoughts could tell.
[00:16.90]Just like an old time movie,
[00:20.79]'Bout a ghost from a wishing well.
[00:24.74]In a castle dark or a fortress strong,
[00:29.45]With chains upon my feet.
[00:33.47]You know that ghost is me.
[00:37.66]And I will never be set free
[00:41.53]As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see.
[00:50.38]If I could read your mind, love,
[00:53.84]What a tale your thoughts could tell.
[00:57.72]Just like a paperback novel,
[01:01.93]The kind the drugstores sell.
[01:05.60]When you reached the part where the heartaches come,
[01:10.70]The hero would be me.
[01:14.74]But heroes often fail,
[01:18.63]And you won't read that book again
[01:22.29]Because the ending's just too hard to take!
[01:42.77]I'd walk away like a movie star
[01:47.66]Who gets burned in a three way script.
[01:51.96]Enter number two:
[01:55.69]A movie queen to play the scene
[01:59.41]Of bringing all the good things out in me.
[02:05.10]But for now, love, let's be real;
[02:09.61]I never thought I could have this way
[02:12.96]And I've got to say that I just don't get it.
[02:17.76]I don't know where we went wrong,
[02:20.88]But the feeling's gone
[02:22.89]And I just can't get it back.
[02:33.87]If you could read my mind, love,
[02:37.53]What a tale my thoughts could tell.
[02:41.92]Just like an old time movie,
[02:45.28]'Bout a ghost from a wishing well.
[02:49.35]In a castle dark or a fortress strong.
[02:54.00]With chains upon my feet.
[02:58.59]But stories always end,
[03:02.56]And if you read between the lines,
[03:07.57]You'd know that I'm just tryin' to understand
[03:12.41]The feelin's that you lack.
[03:16.23]I never thought I could feel this way
[03:20.99]And I've got to say that I just don't get it.
[03:24.48]I don't know where we went wrong,
[03:27.26]But the feelin's gone
[03:29.27]And I just can't get it back!