If you could read my mind

Gordon Lightfoot


 AG
 If you could read my mind love, what a tale my thoughts could tell.
 AG
 Just like an old time movie, 'bout a ghost from a wishing well.
 ADEF#m
 In a castle dark or a fortress strong with chains upon my feet.
 DA
You know that ghost is me.
 DA/C#BmEA
And I will never be set free as long as I'm a ghost that you can't see.
 AG
 If I could read your mind love, what a tale your thoughts could tell.
 AG
 Just like a paper-back novel, the kind that drugstores sell.
 ADEF#m
 When you reach the part where the heartaches come the hero won't be me.
 DA
 heroes often fail....
 DA/C#BmEA
 You won't read that book again because the end is just too hard to take. 
A - G - A - G
 ADEF#m
 I walk away, like a movie star who gets burned in a three-way script...
 DA
 Enter, number two....
 DA/C#BmEA
A movie queen to play the scene of bringin' all the good things out in me.
 DA
But for now love, let's be real....
 DA/C#BmE
I never thought I could act this way and I've got to say that I just don't
get it.
 DA/C#BmE
 I don't know where we went wrong but the feelings gone and I just can't get
 A
it back.
 AG
 If you could read my mind love, what a tale my thoughts could tell.
 AG
 Just like an old time movie, 'bout a ghost from a wishing well.
 ADEF#m
 In a castle dark or a fortress strong with chains upon my feet.
 DA
The story always ends....
 DA/C#BmE
And if you read between the lines you'll know that I'm just trying to
 A
understand.
 DA
The feelings that you lack....
 DA/C#BmE
I never knew I could feel this way and I've got to say that I just don't
get it.
 DA/C#BmE
 I don't know where we went wrong but the feelings gone and I just can't get
 A
it back. 

A - G - A


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