If You Could Read My Mind
Gordon Lightfoot
1971
jaar
Top 40
Lightfoot heeft gezegd dat zijn scheiding voor de inspiratie van de tekst heeft gezorgd. De song schreef zich als het ware vanzelf toen hij tijdens de zomer in een leegstaand huis in Toronto woonde.
De song is gezet in majeur en maakt gebruik van subtonische akkoorden.
Trivia
Dit lied werd gecoverd door Viola Wills: If You Could Read My Mind - Special U.S. Disco-Mix bereikte in 1981 een 3e plaats in de Top 40.
Artiest
A-kant Titel
If You Could Read My Mind
A-kant Lengte
3:48
A-kant Componist(en)
Gordon Lightfoot
A-kant Producer(s)
Lenny Waronker, Joe Wissert
B-kant titel
Poor Little Allison
B-kant lengte
2:30
B-kant componist(en)
Gordon Lightfoot
B-kant producer(s)
Lenny Waronker, Joe Wissert
Platenlabel
Reprise
Catalogusnr
REP-14.069
Hoogste positie UK
30
Hoogste positie US
5
Album
If You Could Read My Mind
Tipparade
Songtekst
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 wishin' 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 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 that drugstores sell
When you reach 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 feelin'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 wishin' 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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