Skeeter Davis - If You Could Read My Mind lyrics

rate me

(Gordon Lightfoot)

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 caste the 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 that 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 the drug stores sell

Then you reached the part where the heartaches come

The hero would be me but heroes often fail

And you won't read that book again

Because the endingis just too hard to take.

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I'd walk away like a movie star who gets burned

In a three way script enter No. 2

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 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.

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 caste the dark or a fortress strong with chains upon my feet

But stories always end

And if you read between the lines you'd know

That I'm just trying to understand

The feeling's that you lack

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.