If You Could Read My Mind:Gordon Lightfoot.
#5 in 1970.
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If you could read my mind love, what a tale my thoughts could tell.
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Just like an old time movie, about a ghost from a wishing well.
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In a castle dark, or a fortress strong, with chains upon my feet.
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You know that ghost is me.
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And I will never be set free as long as I'm a ghost that you can't see.
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If I could read your mind love, what a tale your thoughts could tell.
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Just like a paperback novel, the kind that the drugstore sells.
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When you reach the part where the heartaches come, the hero would be me.
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But heroes often fail.
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And you won't read that book again, because the ending's just too hard to take.
(INTERLUDE:) A5 E5 (x2)
CHORUS:
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I'd walk away like a movie star who gets burned in a three way script.
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Enter number two..a movie queen to play the scene of bringing all the
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good things out in me.
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But for now, love, let's be real.
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I never thought I could act this way, and I've got to say that I just
don't get it.
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I don't know where we went wrong but the feeling's gone and I just
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can't get it back.
#3.
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If you could read my mind love, what a tale my thoughts could tell.
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Just like an old time movie, about a ghost from a wishing well.
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In a castle dark, or a fortress strong, with chains upon my feet.
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But stories always end.
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And if you read between the lines, you'll know that I'm just trying
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to understand, the feelings that you lack.
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I never thought I could feel this way, and I got to say that
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I just don't get it.
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I don't know where we went wrong but the feeling's gone
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and I just can't get it back.
A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.
