Gentle on My Mind Lyrics

It′s knowing that your door is always open
And your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch
And it's knowing I′m not shackled
By forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line
That keeps you on the backroads
By the rivers of my memory
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

Gentle on my mind

Not clinging to the rocks and ivy
Planted on some columns now that bind me

Or something that somebody said
Because they thought we fit together walking
Just a-walking
It's just knowing that the world
Will not be cursing or forgiving
When I walk along some railroad track and find
That you're moving on the backroads
By the rivers of my memory

And for hours you′re just gentle on my mind

Gentle on my mind

Though the wheat fields and the clotheslines
And the junkyards and the highways come between us
And some other woman crying to her mother
′Cause she turned and I was gone
I was gone on
I still run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face
And summer sun might burn me 'til I′m blind
But not to where I cannot see
You walking on the backroads
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

Gentle on my mind
Gentle on my mind

Flowing gentle on my mind
Flowing gentle on my mind
Flowing gentle on my mind
Flowing gentle on my mind