If You Could Read My Mind

If you could read my mind, love,

What a tale my thoughts would tell.

Just like an old time movie

Bout a ghost from a wishin' 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 that you can't see.

If I could read your mind, love,

What a tale your thoughts would tell.

Just like a paper-back novel...

The kind that drug stores sell.

When you reach the part

Where the heartaches come

The hero would be me...

And heros often fail

And you won't read that book again

Because the ending's just too 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 plays 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 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 wishin' well

In a castle dark...or a fortress strong

With chains upon my feet...

And stories always have an end.

If you read between the line

You know I'm just trying to understand

The feelings that you lack

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 feeling's gone

And I just can't get it

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 feeling's gone

And I just can't get it back