If You Could Read My Mind

Johnny Cash

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If you could read my mind, love   
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What a tale my thoughts could tell.  
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Just like an old time movie,  
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'Bout a ghost from a wishing well.  
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In a castle dark,  
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Or a fortress strong, with chains around my feet.  
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You know that ghost is me,  
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And I will never be set free,  
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As long as there?s a ghost that you can't see.  
  
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If you could read my mind, love,  
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What a tale your thoughts would tell.  
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Just like a paperback novel,  
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The kind the drugstores sell.  
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When you reached the part  
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Where the heartaches come, the hero would be me.  
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But heroes often fail.  
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And you won't read that book again,  
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Because the ending's just too hard to take.  
  
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I'd walk away  
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Like a movie star, who gets burned in a three-way script.  
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Enter number two:  
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A movie queen to play the scene  
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Of bringing all the good things out in me   
  
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But for now, love, let's be real.  
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I never thought, I could act this way.  
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And I've got to say 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 feeling's gone, 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 could tell.  
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Just like an old time movie,  
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'Bout a ghost from a wishing well.  
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In a castle dark,  
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Or a fortress strong, with chains upon my feet.  
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But stories always end 
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If you read between the lines 
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Tou?ll know that I?m just trying to understand 
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The feelings that you lack 
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I never thought I could feel this way 
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and I?ve got to say 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 feeling's gone, and I just can't get it back.  
 
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