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If You Could Read My Mind
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Don McLean
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If you could read my mind, love what a tale my thoughts could tell
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Just like an old time movie 'bout a ghost from a wishing well
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In a castle dark or a fortress strong with chains around my feet
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You know that ghost is me and I won't ever be set free
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As long as I'm a ghost you can't see
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If I could read your mind, love, what a tale your thoughts could tell
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Just like a paperback novel, the kind the drugstore sells
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When you reach the part where the heartaches come
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The hero would be me but heroes often fail
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You won't read that book again
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Because the ending's just too hard to take
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I walk away like a movie star who gets burned in a three way street
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Enter number two, a movie queen to play the scene
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Bringing all the good things out in me but for now, love, let's be real
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I never thought I could act this way
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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
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But the feeling's gone and we just can't get it back
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If you could read my mind, love, what a tale my thoughts could tell
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Just like an old time movie 'bout a ghost from a wishing well
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In a castle dark or a fortress strong
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With chains around my feet, the story always ends
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I never thought I could feel this way
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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
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But the feeling's gone and we just can't get it back
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