[ti:Gentle On My Mind]
[ar:elvis presley]
[00:06.93]It's  knowin'that  your  door  is  always  open
[00:09.707]And  you  path  is  free  to  walk
[00:16.405]That  makes  me  tend  to  keep  my  sleeping  bag  rolled  up
[00:20.962]And  stashed  behind  your  couch
[00:24.71]
[00:27.92]It's  knowin'I'm  not  shackled
[00:29.152]By  forgotten  words  and  bonds
[00:31.663]And  the  heat  stains  that  have  dried  up  on  some  lovin'
[00:40.432]That  keeps  you  in  the  back  roads
[00:42.985]By  the  rivers  of  my  memory
[00:46.03]It  keeps  you  ever  gentle  on  my  mind
[00:53.273]
[00:53.773]It's  not  clinging  to  the  rocks  and  ivy
[00:56.336]Planted  on  their  columns  mellowed  by  me
[01:03.961]Or  something  that  somebody  said
[01:06.489]Because  they  thought  we'd  fit  together  walking
[01:14.204]It's  just  knowing  that  the  world  will  not  be  cursin'
[01:18.211]Or  forgiving  when  I  walk  along  some  railroad  track  and  find
[01:26.976]That  you're  moving  on  the  back  roads
[01:29.531]By  the  rivers  of  my  memory  and  for  hours
[01:32.538]You're  just  gentle  on  my  mind
[01:34.639]
[01:39.762]Though  the  wheat  fields  and  the  clothes  lines
[01:41.817]And  the  junk  yards  and  the  highways  come  between  us
[01:50.35]And  some  other  woman's  cryin'to  her  mother
[01:53.197]'Cause  she  turned  and  I  was  gone
[02:00.267]I  still  might  run  in  silence
[02:01.825]Till'the  join  might  stain  my  face
[02:04.977]And  the  summer  sun  might  burn  me 'till  I'm  blind
[02:12.606]But  not  to  where  I  cannot  see  you
[02:15.666]Walking  in  the  back  roads
[02:18.178]By  the  rivers  flowing  gently  on  my  mind
[02:21.237]
[02:25.892]I  dip  my  cup  of  soup  from  a  gurgling,
[02:28.958]cracking  cauldron  in  some  train  yard
[02:35.674]I'm  barely  runnin'cold  how
[02:37.731]Have  a  dirty  hat  pulled  low  across  my  face
[02:45.497]Who  cupped  hands  around  the  tin  cans
[02:48.559]I  pretend  to  hold  you  to  my  breast  and  find
[02:55.676]That  you're  wavin'from  the  back  roads
[02:58.192]By  the  rivers  of  my  memory
[03:00.198]Ever  smiling  never  changes  on  my  mind