If You Could Read My - 2nd Position Mind

by Gordon Lightfoot

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Done in Second Position and removed the bends.
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If you could read my mind love 
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What a   tale   my thoughts would tell  
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Just like an old time mov-ie  
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'Bout a ghost from   a  wish-ing well 
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In  a cas-tle dark or   a   for-tress strong  
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With chains up-on my feet  
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You know that ghost is me  
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And I will nev-er be set free,  
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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 pap-er-back nov-el  
The kind the drug-store sells  
Then you reached the part  
Where the heart-aches come  
The he-ro would be me.  
But he-ros of-ten fail  
And you won’t read the book a-gain  
Be-cause the end-ing just to hard to take  
 
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I’d walk a-way, like  a mov-ie star  
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Who gets burned in   a three-way script  
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En-ter num-ber two: a mov-ie queen  
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To play the scene of bring-ing all  
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The good things out of me  
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But for now love, let’s be real  
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I nev-er thought  I could act this way  
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And I’ve got to say   
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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 feel-ing's gone   
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and I just can't get it back  
 
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If you could read my mind love  
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What a tale my thoughts would tell  
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Just like an old time mov-ie  
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'Bout a ghost from a    wish-ing well  
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In  a cas-tle dark or   a   for-tress strong  
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With chains up-on my feet  
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But stor-ies al-ways end  
 
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And if  you read be-tween the lines  
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You’d know that I'm just try’n  
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To un-der-stand  
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The feel-ings that you lack.  
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I nev-er thought I could feel this way  
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And I’ve got to say  
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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  feel-ings gone,  
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    And I  just can’t get it back