If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old-time movie
About 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 won't ever 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 drugstore sells
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 of
Bringin' all the good things out in me
But for now love let's be real
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
If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old-time movie
About a ghost from a wishing well
In a castle dark, or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
Girl, but stories always end
If you read between the lines
You'd know that I'm just tryin' to understand
The feelings 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
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old-time movie
About 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 won't ever 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 drugstore sells
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 of
Bringin' all the good things out in me
But for now love let's be real
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
If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old-time movie
About a ghost from a wishing well
In a castle dark, or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
Girl, but stories always end
If you read between the lines
You'd know that I'm just tryin' to understand
The feelings 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