Luka Bloom - Gentle on My Mind lyrics

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It'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

It's knowing I'm not shackled

By forgotten words and bonds

And the ink stains that have dried upon some line

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

Keeps you ever gentle on my mind

It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy

Planted in a row that bind me

Or something that somebody said

Because they thought we fit together walking

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

When I walk along some railroad track and find

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

For hours you're just gentle on my mind

Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines

And the junkyards and the highways come between us

And some other woman’s crying to her mother

She turned and love was gone

I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face

The summer sun might burn me till I'm blind

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

By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

I dip my cup of soup back from the gurgling

Crackling cauldron in some train yard

My beard a rustling coal pile

A dirty hat pulled low across my face

Through cupped hands 'round a tin can

I pretend to hold you to my breast and find

You're waving from the back roads by the rivers of my memory

Ever smiling, ever gentle on my mind