Gentle On My Mind Lyrics - Jan Howard

It's knowing you don't try to bind my freedom with some promise made of gold 

That for you my door stays open and our love becomes a simple to A street 

And it's knowing we're not shacked by forgotten words and bons 

And the ink stains that have dried upon some line 

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

That keeps you ever gentle on my mind 

It's not clinging to the rocks and I'd be planted on some column now that binds us 

Or something that somebody said because they thought we fit together walking 

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

When I'm drifting through the market place and find 

That you're movin' on the back roads 

By the rivers of my memory for hours you're just gentle on my mind 

Though the wheet fields and the clothes lines 

And the junk yards and the highways come between us 

And some other woman crying to her mother cause she turned and you were gone 

I still might walk for hours tears of joy might stain my face 

And a summer sun might burn me till I'm blind 

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

By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind 

The shadows freek in the autumn winds that make me draw inside myself in silence 

Cross legged now I sit and watch the endless chase of leaves across my yard 

And layin' down my hair brush I lean back within my window seat and find 

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

Evrer smiling ever gentle on my mind