If You Could Read My Mind

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Gordon Lightfoot passed on May 1, 2023. This cover of my favorite song of his, If You Could Read My Mind, is a tribute to all the beautiful songs he wrote and the many hearts he touched through his music. I'm channeling his voice and fusing his voice and mine as I sing his beautiful song.

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 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 reach the part
where the heartaches come
The hero would be me. . .
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 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
The story always ends.

If you read between the lines
You'll know that I'm
just trying to understand
the feeling 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 feeling's gone
And I just can't get it back.