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 shacked by forgotten words and bons

And the ink stains that have dried upon some line

That keeps you in 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 binds me

Or somethin` 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 walk along some railroad track and find

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

And 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 cryin` to her mother cause she turned and I was gone

I still run in silence 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 walkin` on the back roads

By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

I dipped my cup of soap back from a gurglin` cracklin` caltron in some train yard

My beard a roughen coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low across my face

Through cupped hands round a tin can I pretend I hold you to my breast and find

That you`re wavin` from the back roads by the rivers of my mem`ry

Ever smilin` ever gentle on my mind