If You Could Read My Mind - Jonathan Coulton

If you could read my mind love

What a tale my thoughts could tell

Just like an old time movie

About 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 see

If I could read your mind love

What a tale your thoughts could tell

Just like a paperback novel

The kind the drugstore sells

When you reach the part where the heartaches come

Come the hero would be me

Heroes often fail

And you won’t read that book again

Because the ending’s just to 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 knew I 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

If you could read my mind love

What a tale my thoughts could tell

Just like an old time movie about a ghost from a wishing well

In a castle dark or a fortress strong

With chains upon my feet

The story always ends

And if you read between the lines

You’ll know that I’m just trying to understand

The feelings that you lack

I never knew 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