If You Could Read My Mind - Gordy Lightfoot

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If you could read my mind love  What a tale my thoughts could tell
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Just like an old time movie    'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
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In a castle dark or a fortress strong  With chains upon my feet
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You know that ghost is me    And I will never be set free
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As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see
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If I could read your mind love What a tale your thoughts could tell
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Just like a paperback novel     The kind that drugstores sell
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When you reach the part where the heartaches come
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The hero would be me     But heroes often fail
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And you won't read that book again
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Because the ending's just too hard to take
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I'd walk away like a movie star  Who gets burned in a three way script
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Enter number two      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  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 feelin's gone  And I just can't get it back
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If you could read my mind love   What a tale my thoughts could tell
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Just like an old time movie      'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
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In a castle dark or a fortress strong   With chains upon my feet
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But stories always end   And if you read between the lines
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You'll know that I'm just tryin' to understand
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The feelin's that you lack

OUTTRO
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I never thought I could feel 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 feelin's gone
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And I just can't get it back