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 wishin' 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, when 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, but for now love, let's be real, i never thought i'd 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, if you could read my mind, love, what a tale my thoughts would tell, just like an old-time movie, about a ghost in a wishin' well, in a castle dark or a fortress strong, with chains upon my feet, the story always ends, and if you read between the lines, you'll know that i'm just tryin' to understand, the feelings that you lack, i never thought i'd 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