Thursday, February 28, 2019
Gordon Lightfoot (1938) : If You Could Read My Mind
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 upon my feet
You know that ghost is me
And I will never be set free
As long as I'm a ghost that 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 drugstores sell
Then you reach the part where the heartaches come
The hero would be me
But heroes often fail
And you won't read that book again
Because the ending's just too hard to take!
I'd walk away like a movie star
Who gets burned in a three way script
Enter number two:
A movie queen to play the scene
Of bringing all the good things out in me
. . .
"If You Could Read My Mind" by Gordon Lightfoot
written 1969 - recorded 1970
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