lightfoot gordon - "if you could read my mind"

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title : If you could read my mind
submitted by : Michael Cravin

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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,' bout 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 paper-back novel, the kind 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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You won't read that book again because the endings just too hard to take.

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I 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 bringin' 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 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 feelings gone and I just can't get
it back.

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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, ' bout 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 the story always ends....
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And if you read between the lines you'll know that I'm just trying to
understand.
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The feelings that you lack....
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I never thought I could feel 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 feelings gone and I just can't get
it back.

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