If You Could Read My Mind Lyrics by Johnny Cash

(from the album American V: A Hundred Highways)

If You Could Read My Mind Lyrics

If you could read my mind, love,
What a tale my thoughts could tell.
Just like an old time movie,
'Bout 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 there's a ghost that you can't see.

If I could read your mind, love,
What a tale your thoughts could tell.
Just like a paperback novel,
The kind the drugstores sell.
When you reached the part where the heartaches come,
The hero would be me.
But heroes often fail,
And you won't read that book again
Because the ending's just too hard to take!

I'd 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 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 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,
'Bout a ghost from a wishing well.
In a castle dark or a fortress strong.
With chains upon my feet.
But stories always end,
And if you read between the lines,
You'll know that I'm just tryin' to understand
The feelin's that you lack.
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 feelin's gone
And I just can't get it back!

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Other Lyrics from American V: A Hundred Highways

1. A Legend In My Time Lyrics
2. Four Strong Winds Lyrics
3. Further On Up the Road Lyrics
4. God's Gonna Cut You Down Lyrics
5. Help Me Lyrics
6. I Came To Believe Lyrics
7. I'm Free From The Chain Gang Now Lyrics
8. Like The 309 Lyrics
9. Love's Been Good To Me Lyrics
10. Rose Of My Heart Lyrics
11. The Evening Train Lyrics

Other Johnny Cash Albums

• Cash: Ultimate Gospel Lyrics
• Johnny Cash With His Hot And Blue Guitar Lyrics
• The Fabulous Johnny Cash Lyrics
• Songs Of Our Soil Lyrics
• Hymns By Johnny Cash Lyrics
• Ride This Train Lyrics
• The Sound Of Johnny Cash Lyrics
• Ring Of Fire (The Best Of Johnny Cash) Lyrics
• The Christmas Spirit Lyrics
• Blood, Sweat, And Tears Lyrics
• Bitter Tears (Ballads Of The American Indian) Lyrics
• I Walk The Line Lyrics
• Sunday Morning Coming Down Lyrics
• Johnny 99 Lyrics
• Unchained Lyrics
• American Recordings Lyrics
• Just As I Am Lyrics
• 16 Biggest Hits Lyrics
• At Folsom Prison Lyrics
• American 3: Solitary Man Lyrics
• At San Quentin Lyrics
• The Essential Johnny Cash Lyrics
• American IV: The Man Comes Around Lyrics
• Unearthed Lyrics
• Personal File Lyrics

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