(G. Lightfoot) Campbell Connelly & Co.
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If you could read my mind, love
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What a tale my thoughts would tell
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Just like an old-time movie
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Out a ghost from a wishing well
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In a castle dark or a fortress strong
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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
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As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see
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If I could read your mind, love
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What a tale your thoughts would tell
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Just like a paperback novel
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That kind the drugstores sell
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When you reach the part
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Where the heartache comes
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The hero would be me
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The heroes often fail
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You won't read that book again
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Because the ending's just too hard to take
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I'd walk away like a movie star
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Who gets spurned in a three-way script
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Enter number two
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The movie queen to play the scene
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And bringing all the good things out in me
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But for now, love, let's be real
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Chorus:
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I never thought I could feel this way
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And I 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's gone
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And i just can't get it back...
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If you could read my mind, love
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What a tale my thoughts would tell
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Just like an old-time movie
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About a ghost from a wishing well
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In a castle dark or a fortress strong
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With chains upon my feet
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Stories always end
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And if you read between the lines
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you know that I'm just trying to understand
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The feelings that you lack
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Chorus
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If you could read my mind, love...
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If You Could Read My Mind
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Michael Ball |