If You Could Read My Mind
Gordon Lightfoot
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GIf you could read my mind love
FWhat a tale my thoughts could tell
GJust like an old time movie
F'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
GIn a castle G7dark or a Cfortress strong
With Dchains upon my Emfeet
You Cknow that ghost is Gme
And CI will never G/Hbe set free
As Am7long as I'm a Dghost that you can't Gsee
G
GIf I could read your mind love
FWhat a tale your thoughts could tell
GJust like a paperback novel
FThe kind that drugstores sell
GWhen you reach the G7part where the Cheartaches come
The Dhero would be Emme
But Cheroes often Gfail
And Cyou won't read that G/Hbook again
BecAm7ause the ending's Djust too hard to Gtake
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GI'd walk G7away like a Cmovie star
Who gets Dburned in a three way Emscript
CEnter number Gtwo
A Cmovie queen to G/Hplay the scene
Of Am7bringing all the Dgood things out in Emme
But for Cnow love, let's be Greal
* I Cnever thought I could G/Hact this way *
And I've Am7got to say that I Djust don't get it
CI don't know where G/Hwe went wrong
But the Am7feelin's gone
And I Djust can't get it Gback
G
GIf you could read my mind love
FWhat a tale my thoughts could tell
GJust like an old time movie
F'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
GIn a castle G7dark or a Cfortress strong
With Dchains upon my Emfeet
But Cstories always Gend
And Cif you read G/Hbetween the lines
You'll Am7know that I'm just Dtryin' to underEmstand
The Cfeelin's that you Glack
I Cnever thought I could G/Hfeel this way
And I've Am7got to say that I Djust don't get it
CI don't know where G/Hwe went wrong
But the Am7feelin's gone
And I Djust can't get it Gback
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