Read My Mind Lyrics
And Acoustic Demo Tutorial

Below you'll find the Read My Mind Lyrics and my full version acoustic demo.

A song that came to him due to a divorce he was going thru at the time, If You Could Read My Mind was a top 10 for Lightfoot in the US in 1971.




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.mp4 format for IPad coming soon

Full Tutorial - 8 min 42 sec

--- Start Of If You Could Read My Mind Lyrics ---

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 Im a ghost ... that you cant see

If I could read your mind love ... what a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel .. the kind that drugstores sell
When you reach the part ... where the heartaches come .. the hero would be me
But heroes often fail
And you wont read that book again because the endings just too hard to take

BREAK

Id 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, lets be real
I never thought I could act this way ... and Ive got to say that I just dont get it
I dont know where we went wrong but the feelins gone and I just cant 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 wishin 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 youll know that Im just tryin to understand
The feelins that you lack
I never thought I could feel this way and Ive got to say that I just to get it
I dont know where we went wrong but the feelins gone and I just cant get it back

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