Gentle On My Mind Lyrics

Gentle On My Mind lyrics

It's knowin' that your door is always open
And your path is free to
walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag
Rolled up and stashed
behind your couch
And it's knowin' I'm not shackled
By forgotten words
and bonds
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line
That keeps
you in the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
That keeps you ever
gentle on my mind

It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy
Planted on
their columns now that bind me
Or something that somebody said
because
They thought we fit together walkin'
It's just knowing that the
world
Will not be cursing or forgiving
When I walk along some railroad
track and find
That you're movin' on the back roads
By the rivers of my
memory
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind

Though the wheat
fields and the clothes lines
And the junkyards and the highways come between
us
And some other woman's cryin' to her mother
'cause she turned and I was
gone
I still might run in silence
Tears of joy might stain my face
And
the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind
But not to where I cannot
see
You walkin' on the back roads
By the rivers flowin' gentle on my
mind

I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin' cracklin' cauldron
In
some train yard
My beard a rustlin' coal pile
And a dirty hat pulled low
across my face
Through cupped hands 'round a tin can
I pretend to hold
you to my breast and find
That you're waitin' from the back roads
By the
rivers of my memory
Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind