Gentle On My Mind Lyrics & Chords By Luka Bloom

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 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 back roads by the rivers of my memory Keeps you ever gentle on my mind It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy Planted in a row that bind me Or something that somebody said Because they thought we fit together walking It's knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving When I walk along some railroad track and find You're moving on the back roads by the rivers of my memory For hours you're just gentle on my mind Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines And the junkyards and the highways come between us And some other woman's crying to her mother She turned and love was gone I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face The summer sun might burn me till I'm blind But not to where I cannot see you walking on the back roads By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind I dip my cup of soup back from the gurgling Crackling cauldron in some train yard My beard a rustling coal pile A dirty hat pulled low across my face Through cupped hands 'round a tin can I pretend to hold you to my breast and find You're waving from the back roads by the rivers of my memory Ever smiling, ever gentle on my mind