G5 
          If you could read my mind, love, 
        D5 
          What a tale my thoughts could tell. 
        G5 
          Just like an old time movie, 
        D5 
          'Bout a ghost from a wishing well. 
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          In a castle dark, 
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       Or a fortress strong, with chains upon my feet. 
            C5                           G5 
       You know that ghost is me, 
            C5               G5 
       And I will never be set free, 
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       As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see. 
 

              G5 
       If you could read my mind, love, 
      F5 
       What a tale your thoughts could tell. 
        G5 
       Just like a paperback novel, 
         F5 
       The kind the drugstores sell. 
           G5                       G5  
       Then you reached the part 
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Where the heartaches come, the hero would be me. 
           C5                  G5 
       But heroes often fail. 
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       And you won't read that book again, 
               C5             D5                    G5 
       Because the ending's just too hard to take. 
 
 
       G5          G5 
       I'd walk away 
               C5                    D5                     E5 
       Like a movie star, who gets burned in a three-way script. 
        C5            G5 
       Enter number two: 
          C5              G5 
       A movie queen to play the scene 
           C5                D5                   G5 
       Of bringing all the good things back to me 
 
 
            C5              G5 
       But for now, love, let's be real. 
          C5                      G5 
       I never thought, I could feel this way. 
                 C5                 D5 
       And I've got to say that I just don't get it. 
        C5                  G5 
       I don't know where we went wrong, 
                C5                     D5                 G5 
       But the feeling's gone, and I just can't get it back. 
 

                 G5 
       If you could read my mind ... 
               F5 
         But for now, love ...