Johnny Cash – If You Could Read My Mind Lyrics  Share

From Johnny Cash's album: American V: A Hundred Highways

(Gordon Lightfoot)

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 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 reached 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
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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
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 could tell.
Just like an old time movie,
^,Bout a ghost from a wishing well.
In a castle dark or a fortress strong.
With chains upon my feet.
But stories always end,
And if you read between the lines,
You^,ll know that I^,m just tryin^, to understand
The feelin^,s that you lack.
I 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^,s gone
And I just can^,t get it back!
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