Gentle On My Mind Lyrics - Leonard Nimoy

It's knowin' that your door is always open 

And your path is free to walk 

That makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag 

Rolled up and stashed behind your couch 

And it's knowin' I'm not shackled 

By forgotten words and bonds 

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 clingin' to the rocks and ivy 

Planted on their columns now that bind me 

Or something that somebody said because 

They thought we fit together walkin' 

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 movin' on the back roads 

By the rivers of my memory 

Ever smilin', ever 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 cryin' to her mother 

'cause she turned and I was gone 

I still might run in silence 

Tears of joy might stain my face 

And the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind 

But not to where I cannot see 

You walkin' on the back roads 

By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind 

I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin' cracklin' 

Cauldron 

In some train yard 

My beard a rustlin' coal pile 

And 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 

That you're waitin' from the back roads 

By the rivers of my memory 

Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind