Gentle On My Mind-Madeleine Peyroux

[00:07.79]. [00:19.18]It's knowing that your door is always open [00:25.54]And your path is free to walk [00:37.52]That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag [00:42.70]Rolled up and stashed behind your couch [00:51.13]And it's knowing I'm not shackled [00:59.49]By forgotten words and bonds [01:03.92]And the ink stains that are dried upon some line [01:17.77]That keeps you in the backroads [01:21.70]By the rivers of my memory [01:26.39]That keeps you ever gentle on my mind [01:34.13]. [01:48.29]It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy [01:54.65]Planted on their columns now that bind us [02:06.51]Or something that somebody said [02:11.75]Because they thought we fit together walking [02:24.23]It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing [02:31.03]Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find [02:46.13]That you're moving on the backroads [02:51.38]By the rivers of my memory [02:56.12]And for hours you're just gentle on my mind [03:02.92]. [03:18.02]Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines [03:22.52]And the junkyards and the highways come between us [03:30.93]And some other man's cryin' to his mother [03:42.75]'Cause he turned and I was gone [03:54.42]I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face [04:02.40]And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind [04:16.79]But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads [04:26.43]By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind [04:32.79]. [04:40.47]I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin' [04:44.28]Cracklin' caldron in some train yard [04:51.14]My beard a rustling, cold towel, and [05:02.38]A dirty hat pulled low across my face [05:14.85]Through cupped hands 'round the tin can [05:19.03]I pretend to hold you to my breast and find [05:36.57]That you're waiting from the backroads [05:42.43]By the rivers of my memories [05:46.13]Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind [05:55.36]. [05:56.43]