"Gentle On My Mind"
[00:05.74] It's knowing that your door is always open
[00:08.99] And your path is free to walk
[00:12.11] .
[00:14.89] That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
[00:17.51] Rolled up and stashed behind your couch
[00:21.84] .
[00:23.70] And it's knowing I'm not shackled
[00:25.66] By forgotten words and bonds
[00:28.42] And the ink stains that are dried upon some line
[00:32.60] .
[00:35.03] That keeps you on the backroads
[00:37.17] By the rivers of my memory
[00:39.78] That keeps you ever gentle on my mind
[00:43.89] .
[00:45.90] It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy
[00:48.81] Planted on their columns now that bind me
[00:53.17] .
[00:55.30] Or something that somebody said
[00:57.69] Because they thought we fit together walking
[01:01.06] .
[01:03.81] It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing
[01:07.44] Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find
[01:13.06] .
[01:15.19] That you're moving on the backroads
[01:17.69] By the rivers of my memory
[01:19.80] And for hours you're just gentle on my mind
[01:24.16] .
[01:26.32] Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines
[01:28.66] And the junkyards and the highways come between us
[01:33.27] .
[01:35.27] And some other woman's cryin' to her mother
[01:38.77] 'Cause she turned and I was gone
[01:42.65] .
[01:44.62] I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face
[01:49.12] And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind
[01:53.24] .
[01:55.74] But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads
[02:00.25] By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind
[02:04.62] .
[02:06.87] I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin'
[02:10.12] Cracklin' caldron in some train yard
[02:13.46] .
[02:15.85] My beard a rustling, cold towel, and
[02:18.72] A dirty hat pulled low across my face
[02:22.21] .
[02:24.86] Through cupped hands 'round the tin can
[02:26.98] I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
[02:31.34] .
[02:33.56] That you're waiting from the backroads
[02:36.19] By the rivers of my memories
[02:38.30] Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind
[02:44.29] Gentle on my mind
[02:48.14] You are gentle on my mind
