If You Could Read My Mind

If you could read my mind, love

What a tale my thoughts could tell

Just like an old-time movie

About a ghost from a wishing 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 could tell

Just like a paperback novel

The kind that drugstores sell

when you reach the part

Where the heartaches come

The hero would be me

The hero often fails

And you won't read that book again

Because the ending's just too hard to take

I'll walk away like a movie star

Who gets burned in a three-way script

Enter number two

A movie queen to play the scene

Are bringing all the good things out in me

But for now love, let's be real

I never thought I could act this way

And I've got to say, 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