If you could read my mind (capo 2nd)

 

   G                                                   F                            G

1.  If you could read my mind, love,    what a tale my thoughts could tell,

                                               F                                      G

    just like an old-time movie      about a ghost from a wishing well,

                       G7          C                           

    in a castle dark or a fortress strong,

               D                     Em            C                        G

    with chains upon my feet, you know that ghost is me.

           C                G                      C                    D                            G

    And I will never be set free, as long as I'm a ghost that you can't see.

 

  G                                                  F                              G

2.   If I could read your mind, love,   what a tale your thoughts could tell.

                                                 F                         G

    just like a paperback novel,     the kind that drugstores sell.

                                      G7                     C

    When you reach the part where the heartaches come,

            D                   Em         C              G

    the hero would be me, the hero often fails.

             C                             G

    And you won't read that book again,

           C                          D                       G

    because the ending's just too hard to take.

 

3. G - F        G - F

 

G                  G7             C

    I'll walk away like a movie star,

                      D                                 Em    C                   G

    who gets burned in a three-way script, enter number two.

          C                       G

    A movie queen, a play, the scene

             C                     D                         Em

    are bringing all the good things out in me,

                  C                          G

    but for now, love, let's be real.

 

        C                               G

    I never thought I could act this way,

                   C                 D

    and I've got to say, I just don't get it.

 

 

 

   C                             G

   I don't know where we went wrong,

                  C                             D                     G       ~

    but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.

 

  G                                                  F                           

4.  If you could read my mind, love,  what a tale my thoughts could tell,

G                                             F                                     

    just like an old-time movie      about a ghost from a wishing well,

G                    G7          C                           

    in a castle dark or a fortress strong,

               D                     Em          C                  G

    with chains upon my feet, the story always ends.

         C                            G

    If you could read between the lines,

                 C                        D                  Em

    you'll know that I'm just tryin' to understand,

            C                      G

    the feeling that you lost.

        C                                G

    I never thought I could feel this way,

                   C                 D

    and I've got to say, I just don't get it.

    C                             G

    I don't know where we went wrong,

                  C                             D                     G    - F - G

    but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.

 

    (Olivia Newton-John)