Gentle On My Mind-Carlinhos Borba Gato

[ti:Gentle On My Mind] [ar:Carlinhos Borba Gato] [al:Banda Sao Paulo Country] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Gentle On My Mind - Carlinhos Borba Gato [00:10.06]It's knowing that your door is always open [00:13.08]And your path is free to walk [00:15.89] [00:19.04]That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag [00:22.02]Rolled up and stashed behind your couch [00:25.34] [00:28.39]And it's knowing I'm not shackled [00:30.44]By forgotten words and bonds [00:33.02]And the ink stains that are dried upon some line [00:37.11] [00:40.08]That keeps you in the backroads [00:41.84]By the rivers of my memory [00:44.76]That keeps you ever gentle on my mind [00:49.02] [00:51.26]It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy [00:54.00]Planted on their columns now that bind [00:58.00] [01:00.59]Or something that somebody said [01:02.86]Because they thought we fit together walking [01:07.24] [01:09.70]It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing [01:13.21]Or forgiving [01:14.40]When I walk along some road track and find [01:18.79] [01:21.24]That you're moving on the backroads [01:22.98] [01:23.61]By the rivers of my memory [01:25.87]And for hours you're just gentle on my mind [01:30.05] [01:32.87]Though the [01:33.51]Wheat fields and the clothes lines [01:35.17]And the junkyards and the highways come between us [01:38.88] [01:41.83]And some other woman's cryin' to her mother [01:45.31]'Cause she turned and I was gone [01:48.24] [01:51.30]I still might run in silence [01:53.51]Tears of joy might stay in my face [01:55.21] [01:55.88]And the summer sun might burn me 'Til I'm blind [02:00.51] [02:02.90]But not to where [02:04.09]I cannot see you walkin' on backroads [02:07.32]By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind [02:11.89] [02:14.21]I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin' [02:17.21] [02:17.72]Cracklin' caldron in some train yard [02:20.97] [02:23.56]My beard a rustling cold towel [02:25.69]And a dirty hat pulled low across my face [02:29.61] [02:32.76]Through cupped hands 'Round the tin can [02:35.24]I pretend to hold you to my breast and find [02:40.27] [02:41.80]That you're waiting from the backroads [02:44.02]By the rivers of my memories [02:45.92] [02:46.43]Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind