Gentle On My Mind Lyrics - Alison Krauss

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 are dried up on some line 

That keeps you in the backroads 

By the rivers of my memory 

And keeps you ever gentle on my mind 

It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy 

Planted on their columns now that bind me 

Or something that somebody said 

Because they thought we fit, together walking 

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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 

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 

'Cause she turned and you were gone 

I still might run in silence 

Tears of joy might stain my face 

And the 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 

You dip your cup of soup, back from a gurgling 

Crackling caldron, in some train yard 

Your beard a roughening coal pile 

And a dirty hat pulled low across your face 

Through cupped hands 'round the tin can 

I pretend to hold you to my breast and find 

That you're waiting from the backroads 

By the rivers of my memories 

Ever smiling, ever gentle on my mind