歌曲名 Gentle On My Mind

歌手名 The Band Perry

作词：John Hartford

作曲：John Hartford

It's knowing that your door is always open

And your path is free to walk

That makes me tend to leave

my sleeping bag

Rolled up and stashed behind your couch

And it's knowing I'm not shackled

By forgotten words and bonds

And the ink stains

that are dried upon some line

That keeps you on the backroads

By the rivers of my memory

That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

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 fit together walking

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 moving on the backroads

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 'til I'm blind

But not to where I cannot see you

walkin' on the backroads

By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin'

Cracklin' caldron in some train yard

My beard a rustling cold towel and

A dirty hat pulled low across my face

Through cupped hands 'round the tin can

I pretend to hold you to my breast and find

That you're waiting from the backroads

By the rivers of my memories

Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind

Gentle on my mind

You're gentle on my mind