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 cast the 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 drug stores sell      When you reached the part   Where the heartaches start   The hero would be me but heroes often fail   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 No. 2   A movie queen keep to play the scene   Of bringin' all the good things out of 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 feelin' is gone and I just can't get it back      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 cast the dark or a fortress strong   With chains upon my feet   But stories always end   And If you read between the lines   You'd know that I'm just trying to understand      The feelin's that you lack   I'd 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 feelin' is gone and I just can't get it back