Gentle On My Mind

　　Gentle On My Mind - The Band Perry

　　Let's knowing that your door is always open

　　and your path is free to walk

　　That makes me tend

　　to leave my sleeping bag rolled up

　　and stashed behind your couch

　　And it's knowing I'm not shackled

　　by forgotten words and bonds

　　And the ink stains

　　that have dried up on some line

　　That keeps you in 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 ivy planted on their columns now

　　that binds me

　　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 walk along

　　some railroad track fine

　　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

　　Tears of joy 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

　　My beard a roughening coal pile

　　And a dirty hat pulled low across my face

　　Through cupped hands around the tin can

　　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 ever gentle on my mind

　　gentle on my mind

　　you are gentle on my mind

　　woo woo woo yeah