Gentle On My Mind

It's knowing you don't try to bind my freedom with some promise made of gold



That for you my door stays open and our love becomes a simple to A street



And it's knowing we're not shacked by forgotten words and bons



And the ink stains that have dried upon some line



That keeps you on the back roads by the rivers of my memory



That keeps you ever gentle on my mind



It's not clinging to the rocks and I'd be planted on some column now that binds us



Or something that somebody said because they thought we fit together walking



It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving



When I'm drifting through the market place and find



That you're movin' on the back roads



By the rivers of my memory for hours you're just gentle on my mind



Though the wheet fields and the clothes lines



And the junk yards and the highways come between us



And some other woman crying to her mother cause she turned and you were gone



I still might walk for hours tears of joy might stain my face



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



But not to where I cannot see you moving on the back roads



By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind



The shadows freek in the autumn winds that make me draw inside myself in silence



Cross legged now I sit and watch the endless chase of leaves across my yard



And layin' down my hair brush I lean back within my window seat and find



That you're moving on the back roads by the rivers of my memory



Evrer smiling ever gentle on my mind