Key: A major
Verse 1
G
F
Just like an old time movie about
a ghost from a wishing well
G
C
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
G
Dsus4
D
Em
with chains upon my feet
C
G
You know that ghost is me
C
G
And I won't ever be set free
Am
C
As long as I'm a ghost
D
G
that you can't see
F
If I could read your mind, love, what a tale your thoughts could tell,
G
F
just like a paper -back novel, a kind the drugstore sells.
C
Csus4
where the heartaches come
C
D
The hero would be me,
Em
C
G
but heroes often fail
C
G
Am
And you won't read that book again because the
C
Dsus4
D
G
F
Dm
G
ending is just too hard to tell
F
G
Csus4
C
I walk away like a movie star
D
Em
Who gets burned in a three -way script
C
G
C
In turn number two, a movie queen
G
Am
C
To play the scene of bringing all the good
Dsus4
C
Dsus4
D
Em
things out in me
G
C
G
let's be real I never thought I could act this way
Dsus4
C
Dsus4
just don't get it
D
C
G
I don't know where we went wrong
D
G
A
And I just can't get it back
If you could read my mind, love
D
Esus4
E
F#m
With chains upon my feet
D
A
Stories always end
D
A
And if you read between the lines,
Bm
Esus4
F#m
D
A
you'll know that I'm just trying to understand the feelings that you've got
D
A
I never thought I could feel this way,
Bm
E
and I've got to say that I just don't get it
D
A
I don't know where we went wrong,
Bm
E
A
but the feeling's gone, and I just can't get it back
Outro 1
G
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