If You Could Read My Mind — Gordon Lightfoot

Chords and lyrics for If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot (key of G, capo 2).

Intro

[G] [Dsus4] [G] [D] [G]

Verse 1

[G]If you could read my mind love
[F]What a tale my thoughts could tell
[G]Just like an old time movie
[F]'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
[G]In a castle dark or a fortress [G7]strong [C]
[D]With chains upon my feet
[Em]You know that ghost is me
[C]And I will never be set [G]free
[C]As long as I'm a ghost [G/B]
[Am7]That you can't [D]see

Verse 2

[G]If I could read your mind love
[F]What a tale your thoughts could tell
[G]Just like a paperback novel
[F]The kind that drugstores sell
[G]When you reach the part where the [G7]heartaches [C]come
[D]The hero would be me
[Em]But heroes often fail
[C]And you won't read that book [G]again
[C]Because the ending's just [G/B]
[Am7]Too hard to [D]take

Verse 3

[G]I'd walk away like a movie star
[C]Who gets burned in a three-way [D]script
[Em]Enter number [G]two [C]
[G]A movie queen to play the [C]scene [Bm]
[A]Of bringing all the good things [D]out in me
[Em]But for now love, let's be [C]real
[G]I never thought I could act [C]this [Bm]way
[A]And I've got to say that [D]I just don't get it
[G/D][C]I don't know where we went [G/B]wrong
[A]But the feelin's gone
[D]And I just can't get it back

Verse 4

[G]If you could read my mind love
[F]What a tale my thoughts could tell
[G]Just like an old time movie
[F]'bout a ghost from a wishin' well
[G]In a castle dark or a fortress [G7]strong [C]
[D]With chains upon my feet
[Em]But stories always end
[C]And if you read between the [G]lines
[C]You'll know that I'm just tryin' [G/B]to understand
[Am7]The feelin's that you [D]lack
[Em]I never thought I could feel [C]this way
[G]And I've got to say that [C]I just don't [Bm]get it
[A]I don't know where we went [D]wrong
[G/D][C]But the feelin's gone
[G/B]And I just can't get it [D]back

Outro

[G] [Gsus2] [G] [Dm] [G] [A] [G]