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Lyrics for Gentle On My Mind by JOHNNY CASH:
| | | Artist: | JOHNNY CASH |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Gentle On My Mind | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 73 | | | | Lyrics: | (J. Hartford)
It's knowin' that your door is always open
And your path is free to
walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag
Rolled up and stashed behind your
couch
And it's knowin' I'm not shackled
By forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains
that have dried upon 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 clingin' to the rocks and
ivy
Planted on their columns now that bind me
Or something that somebody said
because
They thought we fit together walkin'
It's just knowing that the world
Will not
be cursing or forgiving
When I walk along some railroad track and find
That you're movin' 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 junkyards 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 walkin' on the back
roads
By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind
I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin'
cracklin' cauldron
In some train yard
My beard a rustlin' coal pile
And 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
That you're waitin' from the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
Ever
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