Jan Howard Gentle On My Mind Lyrics

Gentle On My Mind Lyrics

It's knowing you don't try to bind my freedom with some promise made of gold

That for you my door stays open and our love becomes a simple to A street

And it's knowing we're not shacked by forgotten words and bons

And the ink stains that have dried upon some line

That keeps you on the back roads by the rivers of my memory

That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

It's not clinging to the rocks and I'd be planted on some column now that binds
us

Or something that somebody said because they thought we fit together
walking

It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving

When I'm drifting through the market place and find

That you're movin' on the back roads 

By the rivers of my memory for hours you're just gentle on my mind

Though the wheet fields and the clothes lines

And the junk yards and the highways come between us

And some other woman crying to her mother cause she turned and you were
gone

I still might walk for hours tears of joy might stain my face

And a summer sun might burn me till I'm blind

But not to where I cannot see you moving on the back roads

By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind

The shadows freek in the autumn winds that make me draw inside myself in
silence

Cross legged now I sit and watch the endless chase of leaves across my yard

And layin' down my hair brush I lean back within my window seat and find

That you're moving on the back roads by the rivers of my memory

Evrer smiling ever gentle on my mind