G
          If you could read my mind, love, 
        F
          What a tale my thoughts could tell. 
        G
          Just like an old time movie, 
        F
          'Bout a ghost from a wishing well. 
        G           G7
          In a castle dark, 
           C              D          Em
       Or a fortress strong, with chains upon my feet. 
         C            G
       You know that ghost is me, 
         C          G
       And I will never be set free, 
         C          D             G
       As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see. 
 
             G
       If I could read your mind, love, 
      F
       What a tale your thoughts could tell. 
        G
       Just like a paperback novel, 
        F
       The kind the drugstores sell. 
         G              G7
       Then you reached the part 
         C             D        Em
Where the heartaches come, the hero would be me. 
         C            G
       But heroes often fail. 
         C                           G
       And you won't read that book again, 
           C        D               G
       Because the ending's just too hard to take. 
  
       G        G7
       I'd walk away 
            C              D            Em
       Like a movie star, who gets burned in a three-way script. 
       C        G
       Enter number two: 
         C        G
       A movie queen to play the scene 
         C            D             G
       Of bringing all the good things out in me 
  
          C          G
       But for now, love, let's be real. 
         C                G
       I never thought, I could feel this way. 
              C           D
       And I've got to say that I just don't get it. 
        C            G
       I don't know where we went wrong, 
             C              D             G
       But the feeling's gone, and I just can't get it back. 
 
              G
       If you could read my mind ... 
             F
         But for now, love ...