If You Could Read My Mind (Live 1979) - Gordon Lightfoot
Could you cloud 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
You can't see
If I could read your mind love
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel
The kind in the drugstore sells
When you reach the part
Where the heartaches come
The hero would be me
But the 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 bringing all the good things out in me
But for now love
Let's be real
I never know I could tell 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 wishing well
In a castle dark
Or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
But the stories always end
And if you read between the lines
You'll know that I'm just trying to understand
That the feelings
That you lack
I never know 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