If you could read my mind love What a tale my thoughts would tell Just like an old time movie About a ghost from a wishing well In a castle dark, in a fortress strong Chains around 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 see ♪ If I could read your mind love What a tale your thoughts would tell Just like a paperback novel The kind the drugstore sells When you reach the part Where the heartache comes Then the hero would be me 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 That can play the scene of 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 I just can't get it back ♪ If you could read my mind love What a tale my thoughts would tell Just like an old time movie About a ghost from a wishing well In a castle dark, in a fortress strong Chains upon my feet The story always ends And if you read between the lines You'll know that I'm just trying to understand The feelings that you left 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 I just can't get it back