If you could read my mind, love   What a tale my thoughts could tell   Just like an old-time movie      About 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 that drugstores sell   When you reach the part   Where the heartaches come   The hero would be me      The hero often fails   And you won't read that book again   Because the ending's just too hard to take      I'll walk away like a movie star   Who gets burned in a three-way script   Enter number two      A movie queen to play the scene   Are 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, 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