If You Could Read My Mind - Lyrics - Gene Clark

Harold Eugene "Gene" Clark was an American singer-songwriter and founding member of the folk rock band The Byrds. Clark was The Byrds' dominant songwriter between 1964 and early 1966, penning most of the band's best-known originals from this period, including "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better", "She Don't Care About Time", "Set You Free This Time", and "Eight Miles High". He created a large catalogue of music in several genres, but failed to achieve solo commercial success. Clark was one of the earliest exponents of psychedelic rock, baroque pop, newgrass, country rock and alternative country.

Lightfoot Intro. (Piano and Acoustic Guitar) If you could read my mind love What a tale my thoughts would 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 I'm a ghost that you can't see If I could read your mind love What a tale your thoughts would tell Just like a paper-back novel The kind the drug store sells When you reach the part Where the heartaches come the hero would be me Heroes often fail You won't read that book again Because the endings just too hard to take I 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 I've got to say that I just don't get it I don't know where we went wrong But the feelings gone and I just can't get it back If you could read my mind love What a tale my thoughts would 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 Stories have to end And if you read between the lines You'll know that I'm just trying to understand The feelings that you lack I never thought I could act this way I've got to say that I just don't get it I don't know where we went wrong But the feelings gone and I just can't get it Never thought I could act this way (Oooh) I've got to say that I just don't get it (Oooh) I don't know where we went wrong (Oooh) But the feelings gone and I just can't get it back (Oooh) Ending (Piano and Acoustic Guitar)