If You Could Read My Mind Lyrics - Gord's Gold - Gordon Lightfoot

If you could read my mind love 

What a tale my thoughts could tell 

Just like an old time movie 

About 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 see 

If I could read your mind love 

What a tale your thoughts could tell 

Just like a paperback novel 

The kind the drugstore sells 

When you reach the part where the heartaches 

Come the hero would be me 

Heroes often fail 

And you won't read that book again 

Because the ending's just to 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 lets 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 feelings 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 about a ghost from a wishing well 

In a castle dark or a fortress strong 

With chains upon my feet 

The story always ends 

And if you read between the lines 

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

The feeling 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