If You Could Read My Mind

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 wishin' well

In a castle dark or a fortress strong with chains around my feet

You know that ghost is me and I will never be set free

As long as there's 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 reached 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 bringin' 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

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 wishin' well

In a castle dark or a fortress strong with chains upon my feet

But stories always end, if you read between the lines

You'll know that I'm just tryin' to understand

The feelings 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 feeling's gone

And I just can't get it back