My first cover tune and a chance to record one of my very favorite songs EVER! Featuring 14-year old Trish Henning, my daughter, on cello. Just hit top 40 in the new Pop/Rock cover tune genre 3/21/2002
MP3.com CD: Shades of Blue - buy it! Credits: Written by Gordon Lightfoot and used by permission. All vocals and acoustic guitar by Debbie Henning; cello byTrish Henning Recorded at White Rose Studios; Guthrie Oklahoma by Eric Howard.. Mastered by Craig White. Produced by Mark Lyon
Story Behind the Song
This is one of the first songs that I fell in love with when I was teaching myself to play. The opportunity to record it brought tears to my eyes.
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 I'm a ghost that you can't see
And if I could read your mind love
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel
The kind the drugstore sells
When you reach the part
Where the heartaches come
The hero would be me
Ah, but heros 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 3 way script
Enter number 2
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 sat 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
Stories always end
And if you'll read between the lines
You'll find that I'm just trying to understand
The feelings 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 feelings gone
and I just can't get it back
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