Don Mclean If You Could Read My Mind song lyrics

If you could read my mind, love what a tale my thoughts could tell

Just like an old time movie 'bout a ghost from a wishing well

In a castle dark or a fortress strong with chains around my feet

You know that ghost is me and I won't ever be set free

As long as I'm a ghost 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 the drugstore sells

When you reach the part where the heartaches come

The hero would be me but heroes often fail

You won't read that book again

Because the ending's just too hard to take

I walk away like a movie star who gets burned in a three way street

Enter number two, a movie queen to play the scene

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 that I just don't get it

I don't know where we went wrong

But the feeling's gone and we just can't get it back

If you could read my mind, love, what a tale my thoughts could tell

Just like an old time movie 'bout a ghost from a wishing well

In a castle dark or a fortress strong

With chains around my feet, the story always ends

I never thought I could feel this way

And I've got to say that I just don't get it

I don't know where we went wrong

But the feeling's gone and we just can't get it back