Gentle On My Mind

[00:06.03] It's knowin' that your door is always open
[00:09.79] And your path is free to walk
[00:16.44] That makes me tend to keep my sleeping bag rolled up
[00:20.52] And stashed behind your couch
[00:27.07] It's knowin' I'm not shackled
[00:29.80] By forgotten words and bonds
[00:32.41] And the ink stains that have dried up on some lovin'
[00:40.02] That keeps you in the back roads
[00:43.02] By the rivers of my memory
[00:45.53] It keeps you ever gentle on my mind
[00:53.20] It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy
[00:56.70] Planted on their columns now that bind me
[01:03.87] Or something that somebody said
[01:06.76] Because they thought we'd fit together walkin'
[01:14.15] It's just knowing that the world will not be cursin'
[01:18.41] Or forgivin' when I walk along some railroad track and find
[01:27.08] That you're moving on the back roads
[01:29.72] By the rivers of my memory and for hours
[01:33.63] You're just gentle on my mind
[01:39.95] Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines
[01:42.54] And the junk yards and the highways come between us
[01:50.01] And some other woman's cryin' to her mother
[01:53.86] 'Cause she turned and I was gone
[02:00.29] I still might run in silence
[02:02.93] Tears of joy might stain my face
[02:05.26] And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind
[02:12.75] But not to where I cannot see you
[02:15.99] Walking in the back roads
[02:18.23] By the rivers flowing gently on my mind
[02:25.67] I dip my cup of soup back from a gurgling
[02:29.38] Cracking cauldron in some train yard
[02:35.85] My beard a roughening coal pile
[02:38.46] And a dirty hat pulled low across my face
[02:45.91] Through cupped hands around the tin can
[02:48.78] I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
[02:56.03] That you're wavin' from the back roads
[02:58.80] By the rivers of my memory
[03:01.18] Ever smiling ever gentle on my mind
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