If You Could Read My Mind

Gordon Lightfoot

capo 2

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 dark or a Cfortress strong
With Dchains upon my Emfeet
You Cknow that ghost is Gme
And CI will never Gbe set free
As Amlong as I'm a Dghost that you can't Gsee

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 part where the Cheartaches come
The Dhero would be Emme
But Cheroes often Gfail
And Cyou won't read that Gbook again
BeAmcause the ending's Djust too hard to Gtake

GI'd walk away like a Cmovie star
Who gets Dburned in a three-way Emscript
CEnter number Gtwo

A Cmovie queen to Gplay the scene
Of Ambringing all the Dgood things out in Emme
But for Cnow love, let's be Greal
I Cnever thought I could Gfeel this way
And I've Amgot to say that I Djust don't get it
CI don't know where Gwe went wrong
But the Amfeeling's gone and I Djust can’t get it Gback

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 dark or a Cfortress strong
With Dchains upon my Emfeet
But Cstories always Gend
And Cif you read beGtween the lines
You'll Amknow that I'm just Dtryin' to underEmstand
The Cfeelings that you Glack
I Cnever thought I could Gfeel this way
And I've Amgot to say that I Djust don't get it
CI don't know where Gwe went wrong
But the Amfeeling's gone
And I Djust can't get it Gback