If You Could Read My Mind - Gene Clark

If you could read my mind love

What a tale my thoughts would 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 would tell

Just like a paper-back novel

The kind the drug store sells

When you reach the part

Where the heartaches come the hero would be me

Heroes often fail

You won’t read that book again

Because the endings just too hard to take

I 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 could act this way

I’ve got to say that I just don’t get it

I don’t know where we went wrong

But the feelings 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

'bout a ghost from a wishin' well

In a castle dark

Or a fortress strong with chains upon my feet

Stories have to end

And if you read between the lines

You’ll know that I’m just trying to understand

The feelings that you lack

I never thought I could act this way

I’ve got to say that I just don’t get it

I don’t know where we went wrong

But the feelings gone and I just can’t get it

Never thought I could act this way (Oooh)

I’ve got to say that I just don’t get it (Oooh)

I don’t know where we went wrong (Oooh)

But the feelings gone and I just can’t get it back (Oooh)

Ending (Piano and Acoustic Guitar)