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 mem`ry

That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

It`s not clinging to the rocks and I`d be planted on their columns now that bind us

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

It`s just knowin` that the world will not be cursin` or forgivin`

When I`m driftin` through the market place and find

That you`re moving on the back roads by the rivers of my mem`ry

And for hours you`re just gentle on my mind

[ ac.guitar ]

Though the wheet fields and the clothes lines

And the junk yards and the highways come between us

And some other woman cryin` 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 movin` 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 movin` on the back roads by the rivers of my mem`ry

Evrer smiling ever gentle on my mind

[ ac.guitar ]