Karaoké Gentle On My Mind (live) The Mavericks

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 lines

That keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of my memory and keeps you ever gentle on my mind

It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy planted on their columns now that binds me

Or somethin' that somebody said because they thought we fit together walkin'

It's just knowin' that the world will not be cursin' or forgivin' when I walk along some railroad track and find

That you're wavin' from 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 curled twines and the junkyards and the highways come between us

And some other woman cryin' to her mother 'cos 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 the gurglin' cracklin' cauldron in some train yard

My beard a roughenin' 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

That you're wavin' from the back roads by the rivers of my memory

Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind