If You Could Read My Mind

As I prepared for work this morning, Gordon Lightfoot's lyrics were flowing through my brain, seeming to resonate:

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 then:

When you reach the part where the heartaches start
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 was thinking about learning and singing this song.  It wasn't until I was getting in the car to go to work that I recalled the concluding lyric:

I don't know where we went wrong
But the feelin's gone
And I just can't get it back

Immediately - and gratefully - I realized that this song isn't really applicable to me at all. "The feeling" is by no means gone, and whatever the chains, ghost, and fallen hero represent in my story or song, they are  not the burden of being in a loveless relationship.