Gentle On My Mind-King of the Road

[ti:Gentle On My Mind] [ar:King of the Road] [al:Piece of Work: Country Kings] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Gentle On My Mind - King of the Road [00:09.25]It's knowing that your door is always open [00:12.30]And your path is free to walk [00:14.42] [00:18.18]That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up [00:21.44]And stashed behind your couch [00:23.40] [00:26.90]And it's knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten [00:29.72]Words and bonds [00:31.30]And the ink stains that have dried up on some line [00:35.28] [00:38.25]That keeps you in the back roads [00:40.28]By the rivers of my memory [00:42.47]That keeps you ever gentle on my mind [00:46.35] [00:49.12]It's not clinging to the rocks [00:50.97]And ivy planted on their columns now that binds me [00:54.85] [00:58.12]Or something that somebody said [01:00.20]Because they thought we fit together walking [01:03.74] [01:06.79]It's just knowing that the world [01:08.73]Will not be cursing or forgiving when I walk along [01:12.40]Some railroad tracking fine [01:15.24] [01:17.96]That you're waving from the back roads [01:20.45]By the river of my memory [01:22.66]And for hours you're just gentle on my mind [01:26.60] [01:29.36]Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines [01:31.30]And the junkyards and the highways come between us [01:34.62] [01:37.98]And some other woman's cryin' to her mother [01:41.18]'Cause she turned and I was gone [01:43.77] [01:47.17]I still might run in silence [01:48.66]Tears of joy might stain my face [01:51.35]And the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind [01:55.62] [01:58.27]But not to where [01:59.25]I cannot see you walkin' on the back roads [02:02.62]By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind [02:06.36] [02:09.34]I dip my cup of soup back [02:11.16]From a gurglin' cracklin' cauldron [02:13.45]In some train yard [02:15.78] [02:18.10]My beard a rustlin' coal pile [02:20.05]And a dirty hat pulled low across my face [02:23.50] [02:27.15]Through cupped hands 'round a tin can [02:29.20]I pretend to hold you to my breast and find [02:32.78] [02:35.82]That you're waitin' from the back roads [02:38.23]By the rivers of my memory ever smilin' [02:41.65]Ever gentle on my mind