Name: I Can't Read Your Mind
Channel: Bruce Irving
Description: "I Can't Read Your Mind" is a song by Bruce Irving. Relationships, communication, mental telepathy (NOT!).

I Can't Read Your Mind

Bruce Irving

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Relationships, communication, mental telepathy (NOT!).

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Bruce Irving

Bruce Irving is a Massachusetts based singer songwriter who writes acoustic and keyboard based pop and country songs in a variety of styles.

Bruce Irving is an eclectic pop singer/songwriter in Central Massachusetts. His music combines influences of 60's and 70's pop with a willingness to incorporate anything that works with the songs, from jazz to power pop to alt country.

Song Info

Genre

Hip-Hop • Hip Hop General

Charts

Peak #2,465

Peak in subgenre #1,328

Author

Bruce Irving

Rights

1978 by Bruce Irving

Uploaded

January 08, 2002

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.1 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Story behind the song

Many people think this is one of my best songs. I like it too. I've always heard it as a three-part harmony thing, and I'm working on that with Home Studio (now that I know how to 'punch in' to fix my vocal mistakes, the perfect Graham Nash top harmony is just days away). I'll upload
the harmony version as soon as I know it's right. This is a studio demo from 1980 with Rob Simbeck and myself on guitars. Alas, only a cassette has survived, so the audio is not the best.

Lyrics

I Can't Read Your Mind

If I'm wearing out my welcome 
You can tell me so
No one ever guaranteed 
That love will grow
If it's something that I'm doing 
Maybe I can change
Or maybe something else 
Will have to be arranged

CHORUS:
But if you tell me how you feel
We can try to deal with it together
Who know what we'll find?
But if you keep it all inside of you
How will I know what to do?
Baby, I can love you
But I can't read your mind

If we've both made every effort
And still something fades away
Maybe you should act like you've got
Nothing to say
Conversation so one-sided
Cannot be what's real
Still I can't deny the message 
That your eyes reveal

CHORUS

You may think our story's over
Maybe that is true
Maybe we'll both set our sights 
On something new
There are things that last forever
Sometimes love is one
But sometimes love can end
Before it's even begun

CHORUS

Words and Music by Bruce Irving © 1978

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