If You Could Read My Mind / Songs and Lyrics

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w:1&3.)If you could read my mind, love, what a tale my thoughts could tell
w:2.)If I could read your mind, love, what a tale your thoughts could tell
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w:Just like an old-time mov-ie about a ghost from a wish -ing well
w:Just like a paper-back no-vel the - kind that - drug - stores sell
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w:In a cas-tle dark or a fort-ress strong with chains up-on my
w:Then you reach the part where the heart-aches come, the he-ro would be
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w:feet, you know that ghost is me and I will ne-ver
w:me, but the he-roes oif-ten fail and you won't read that
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w:be set free as long as I'm a ghost that you can't see -
w:book a-gain be-cause the end-ing's just too hard to take -
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w:--------------I'd way a-way - like a
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w:mov-ie star who gets burned in a three way script In-to num-ber two A mov-ie queen to
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w:play the scene of brining-ing all the good things out of - But for
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w:now love let's be real. I ne-ver thought - I could
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w:feel this way - and got to say - that I just don't get it
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w:I don't know where we went wrong - but the feel-ings gone - and I
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w:just can't get it back
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w:feet But sto-ries al-ways end and if you read be-tween the lines you'd
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w:know that I'm just tryin' to un-der-stand The fee-lings that you lack. I
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w:ne-ver thought - I could feel this way - and I've got to say - that I just don't get it
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w:I don't know where we went wrong but the feelings gone and I just can't get it back.
W:If you could read my mind, love
W:What a tale my thoughts could tell
W:Just like an old time movie
W:'Bout a ghost from a wishing well
W:In a castle dark or a fortress strong
W:With chains upon my feet
W:You know that ghost is me
W:And I will never be set free
W:
W:As long as I am a ghost, you can't see
W:If I could read your mind, love
W:What a tale your thoughts could tell
W:Just like a paperback novel
W:The kind the drugstore sells
W:When you reach the part where the heartaches come
W:The hero would be me
W:But heroes often fail
W:And you won't read that book again
W:Because the ending's just too hard to take
W:
W:I'd walk away like a movie star
W:Who gets burned in a three way script
W:Enter number two, a movie queen to play the scene
W:Of bringing all the good things out in me
W:But for now, love, let's be real
W:
W:I never thought I could act this way
W:And I've got to say that I just don't get it
W:I don't know where we went wrong
W:But the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back
W:
W:If you could read my mind, love
W:What a tale my thoughts could tell
W:Just like an old time movie
W:'Bout a ghost from a wishing well
W:In a castle dark or a fortress strong
W:With chains upon my feet
W:But stories always end
W:And if you read between the lines
W:You'll know that I'm just trying to understand
W:The feelings that you lack
W:
W:I never thought I could feel this way
W:And I've got to say that I just don't get it
W:I don't know where we went wrong
W:But the feeling's gone
W:And I just can't get it back

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