Gentle On My Mind Lyrics - Eddy Arnold

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 bons 

And the ink stains that have dried upon some line 

That keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of my memory 

That keeps you ever gentle on my mind 

It's not clinging to the rocks 

And I'd be planted on their columns now that bind me 

Or something that somebody said 

Because they thought we fit together walking 

It's knowin' that the world will not be cursin' or forgiving 

When I walk along some railroad track and find 

You're movin' on the back roads 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 junk yards and the highways come between us 

And some other woman crying to her mother 

'Cause she turned and I was gone 

I still run in silence, tears of joy stain my face 

And a 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