If You Could Read My Mind - guitar chords and comments
Lyrics without distraction HERE
A prolific songwriter, Gordon Lightfoot has only had a couple of major hits himself - this one (1971) and "Cold on the Shoulder" (1975). Funny, but he's been covered with success by artists from Anne Murray to Elvis Presley. A considerated assortment of his approximately 500 registered titles belong to any busker's songbook, as well as mine.
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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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I'd walk away like a movie star who gets burned in a three way script
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enter number two
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a movie queen to play the scene of bringing all the 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 feel this way
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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
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but the feeling is gone and I just can't get it back