If You Could Read My Mind, Love

苍山

一首耐人寻味的老歌（1969）。歌词有点难理解，但是不妨碍。一如Eric Clapton的“天堂里的眼泪”，Gordon Lightfoot 的这首歌也是非常个人化的，为纪念而写的，亲自演唱，可谓声情并茂。往往人在感情受创时能达到艺术创作的巅峰，此话不假。此歌后来成为电影"Paperback Hero"的主题曲。

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
.....

天地

好歌，爱听。人往往在受挫折时才反省和思考总结，因此有了顿悟

苍山

是啊。有的人，知错不悔，愈挫愈勇，直到撞得粉身碎骨。另一些人，幡然醒悟，脱胎换骨，捡来一片海阔天空。