If You Could Read My Mind
Gordon Lightfoot

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If you could read ____my mind love, What a tale my thoughts could tell, Just like an old ______time
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Movie, 'Bout a ghost from a wishing well, In a castle dark or a fortress strong With chains upon my
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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
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_______


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If I could read ____your mind love, what a tale your thoughts could tell , Just like a paperback novel,
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______the kind the drugstores sell, ____When you reach the part ___where the heartache come, The
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Hero would be me, but heroes often fail, And you won't read that book again because the ending's just
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Too hard to take _______


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I'd walk away ___like a movie star, Who gets burned in a three way script, enter number two
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A movie queen to play the scene, Of  bringing all the good things out in me ___But for now love, let's
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be real  I never thought I could feel this way And I've got ____to say that I just don't get it
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I don't know where  we went wrong but the feeling's gone And I just can't get it back


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If you could read ____my mind love, What a tale my thoughts could tell, Just like an old ______time
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Movie, 'Bout a ghost from a wishing well, In a castle dark or a fortress strong With chains upon my
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feet, But stories always end And if you read between the lines you'll know that I'm just trying to
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Understand The feelings that you lack I never thought I could feel this way and I've got to say that I
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Just to get it I don't know where we went wrong but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back


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