Gentle on my mind

[00:08.92] It's knowing that your door is always open

[00:12.11] And your path is free to walk

[00:17.69] That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag

[00:20.34] Rolled up and stashed behind your couch

[00:26.72] And it's knowing I'm not shackled

[00:28.58] By forgotten words and bonds

[00:30.97] And the ink stains that are dried upon some line

[00:37.61] That keeps you in the back roads

[00:39.73] By the rivers of my memory

[00:42.12] That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

[00:48.50] It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy

[00:51.42] Planted on their columns now that bind me

[00:57.53] Or something that somebody said

[00:59.92] Because they thought we fit together walking

[01:06.30] It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving

[01:10.81] When I walk along some railroad track and find

[01:17.19] That you're moving on the back roads

[01:19.84] By the rivers of my memory

[01:21.97] And for hours you're just gentle on my mind

[01:28.34] Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines

[01:30.73] And the junkyards and the highways come between us

[01:37.37] And some other woman's cryin' to her mother

[01:39.76] 'Cause she turned and I was gone

[01:45.87] I still might run in silence

[01:48.26] Tears of joy might stain my face

[01:50.65] And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind

[01:57.29] But not to where I cannot see you

[01:59.69] Walkin' on the back roads

[02:01.54] By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

[02:08.19] I dip my cup of soup back

[02:10.31] From a gurglin' cracklin' Calderon in some train yard

[02:16.95] My beard, a roughening' coal pile

[02:19.08] And a dirty hat pulled low across my face

[02:25.45] Through cupped hands ‘round the tin can

[02:27.84] I pretend to hold you to my breast and find

[02:33.95] That you're waiting from the back roads

[02:36.34] By the rivers of my memories

[02:38.73] Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind