1088 – Gordon Lightfoot – If you could read my mind (1970)

Escrita por Gordon Lightfoot, foi gravada em novembro de 1969 e lançada em abril de 1970 no disco Sit down young stranger. Chegou ao número 1 no Canadá e número 5 nos charts pop americanos, número 27 na Australia e número 30 no Reino Unido.

Gordon diz que seu divórcio foi a fonte de inspiração pra compor essa música. Ele estava dentro da casa que havia se mudado, vazia, num verão de Toronto.

A letra:

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 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 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 lets 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 feelings 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 feeling that you left

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

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