Gentle On My Mind Lyrics - Elvis Presley

It's knowin' that your door is always open 

And you path is free to walk 

That makes me tend to keep my sleeping bag rolled up 

And stashed behind your couch 

It's knowin' I'm not shackled 

By forgotten words and bonds 

And the ink stains that have dried up on some lovin' 

That keeps you in the back roads 

By the rivers of my memory 

It keeps you ever gentle on my mind 

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It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy 

Planted on their columns now that bind me 

Or something that somebody said 

Because they thought we'd fit together walkin' 

It's just knowing that the world will not be cursin' 

Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find 

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 

Photos 

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