If You Could Read My Mind

If You Could Read My Mind

                                   If you could read my mind love,
                                   What a tale my thoughts could tell....
                                   Just like a 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 would tell....
                                   Just like a paperback novel,
                                   The kind the 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 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 act 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 feeling's gone
                                   And I just can't get it back.......

But stories always end....

                                   If you read between the lines
                                   You know that I'm just trying to understand
                                   The feelings that you left.....
                                   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 feeling's gone
                                   And I just can't get it back.......

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