Elvis Presley - Gentle On My Mind lyrics

It`s knowin` that your door is always open

And you path is free to walk

That makes me tend to keep my sleeping bag rolled up

And stashed behind your couch

It`s knowin` I`m not shackled

By forgotten words and bonds

And the heat stains that have

dried up on some lovin`

That keeps you in the back roads

By the rivers of my memory

It keeps you ever gentle on my mind

It`s not clinging to the rocks and ivy

Planted on their columns mellowed by me

Or something that somebody said

Because they thought we`d fit together walking

It`s just knowing that the world will not be cursin`

Or forgiving when I walk along

some railroad track and find

That you`re moving 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`s cryin` to her mother

`Cause she turned and I was gone

I still might run in silence

Till` the join might stain my face

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

But not to where I cannot see you

Walking in the back roads

By the rivers flowing gently on my mind

I dip my cup of soup from a gurgling,

cracking cauldron in some train yard

I`m barely runnin` cold how

Have a dirty hat pulled low across my face

Who cupped hands around the tin cans

I pretend to hold you to my breast and find

That you`re wavin` from the back roads

By the rivers of my memory

Ever smiling never changes on my mind