[ti:If You Could Read My Mind] [ar:Don Williams] [al:Borrowed Tales] [00:00.00]If You Could Read My Mind [00:03.74]Don Williams [00:05.08] [00:09.63]If you could read my mind love, [00:13.34]What a tale my thoughts could tell [00:17.41]Just like an old time movie, [00:21.34]Bout a ghost from a wishin well [00:25.52]In a castle dark or a fortress strong [00:30.54]With chains upon my feet, [00:34.88]You know that ghost is me. [00:38.78]And I will never be set free, [00:42.86]As long as I'm a ghost you cant see. [00:51.91]If I could read your mind love, [00:55.81]What a tale your thoughts could tell [00:59.76]Just like a paperback novel, [01:04.12]The kind the drugstore sell [01:07.93]When you reach the part [01:10.64]Where the heartaches come [01:12.92]The hero would be me, [01:17.47]Heroes often fail [01:21.22]And you won't need that book again, [01:25.24]Because the endings just too hard to take. [01:30.29]--- Instrumental --- [01:46.20]I'd walk away like a movie star [01:51.14]Who gets burned in a freeway script, [01:55.57]Enter number two [01:59.41]A movie queen to play the scene, [02:03.37]Of bringing all the good things out in me [02:08.87]But for now love lets be real, [02:13.38]I never thought I could act this way [02:16.92]And Ive got to say that I just dont get it [02:21.95]I don't know where we went wrong [02:25.23]But the feelins gone and I just cant get it back. [02:38.16]If you could read my mind love, [02:42.25]What a tale my thoughts could tell [02:46.32]Just like an old time movie, [02:50.25]Bout a ghost from a wishin well [02:54.33]In a castle dark or a fortress strong [02:59.37]With chains upon my feet, [03:03.61]The story always ends [03:07.73]And if you read between the lines [03:11.45]You'll know that I'm just tryin to understand [03:17.70]The feelings that you lack [03:21.65]I never thought I could feel this way [03:25.11]And I've got to say that I just don't get it. [03:30.20]I don't know where we went wrong [03:33.41]But the feelins gone and I just cant get it back [03:38.68]--- Instrumental --- [03:42.15]