Gentle On My Mind-Smokestack Lightnin'

[00:31.18]it's knowin' that your door is always open [00:31.69]and your path is free to walk [00:38.14]that makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag [00:40.65]rolled up and stashed behind your couch [00:47.61]and it's knowin' i'm not shackled [00:49.67]by forgotten words and bonds [00:52.08]and the ink stains that have dried upon some line [00:59.90]that keeps you in the back roads [01:01.66]by the rivers of my memory [01:04.30]that keeps you ever gentle on my mind [01:15.99]it's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy [01:18.61]and for hours you're just gentle on my mind [01:25.82]or something that somebody said [01:28.36]because they thought we fit together walkin' [01:35.06]it's just knowing that the world [01:37.20]will not be cursing or forgiving [01:39.92]when i walk along some railroad track and find [01:46.92]that you're movin' on the back roads [01:49.29]by the rivers of my memory [01:51.57]planted on their columns now that bind me [02:36.86]though the wheat fields and the clothes lines [02:40.74]and the junkyards and the highways come between us [02:46.10]and some other woman's cryin' to her mother [02:50.08]'cause she turned and i was gone [02:56.10]i still might run in silence [02:58.67]tears of joy might stain my face [03:07.97]but not to where i cannot see you [03:10.56]walkin' on the back roads [03:12.47]by the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind [03:24.81]by dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin' cracklin' cauldron [03:28.59]and the summer sun might burn me till i'm blind [03:29.19]in some train yard [03:33.93]my beard a rustlin' coal pile [03:36.67]and a dirty hat pulled low across my face [03:43.16]through cupped hands 'round a tin can [03:46.12]i pretend to hold you to my breast and find [03:52.71]that you're waitin' from the back roads [03:55.18]by the rivers of my memory [03:57.44]ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind