If You Could Read My Mind
Gordon Lightfoot
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AIf you could read my mind love
GWhat a tale my thoughts could tell
AJust like an old time movie
G'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
AIn a castle A7dark or a Dfortress strong
With Echains upon my F#mfeet
You Dknow that ghost is Ame
And DI will never A/C#be set free
As Hm7long as I'm a Eghost that you can't Asee
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AIf I could read your mind love
GWhat a tale your thoughts could tell
AJust like a paperback novel
GThe kind that drugstores sell
AWhen you reach the A7part where the Dheartaches come
The Ehero would be F#mme
But Dheroes often Afail
And Dyou won't read that A/C#book again
BecHm7ause the ending's Ejust too hard to Atake
A G A G
AI'd walk A7away like a Dmovie star
Who gets Eburned in a three way F#mscript
DEnter number Atwo
A Dmovie queen to A/C#play the scene
Of Hm7bringing all the Egood things out in F#mme
But for Dnow love, let's be Areal
* I Dnever thought I could A/C#act this way *
And I've Hm7got to say that I Ejust don't get it
DI don't know where A/C#we went wrong
But the Hm7feelin's gone
And I Ejust can't get it Aback
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AIf you could read my mind love
GWhat a tale my thoughts could tell
AJust like an old time movie
G'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
AIn a castle A7dark or a Dfortress strong
With Echains upon my F#mfeet
But Dstories always Aend
And Dif you read A/C#between the lines
You'll Hm7know that I'm just Etryin' to underF#mstand
The Dfeelin's that you Alack
I Dnever thought I could A/C#feel this way
And I've Hm7got to say that I Ejust don't get it
DI don't know where A/C#we went wrong
But the Hm7feelin's gone
And I Ejust can't get it Aback
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