Gentle On My Mind - Dean Martin
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It's knowing that your door is always open
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and your path is free to walk
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that makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up
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and stashed behind your couch
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And it's knowing I'm not shackled by forgotten words and bonds
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and the ink stains that have dried upon some line
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That keeps you in the backroads by the rivers of my memory
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that 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
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Or something that somebody said because they think we fit together walkin'.
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It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgivin
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when I walk along some railroad track and find
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That you're moving on the backroads by the rivers of my memory
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and for hours you're just gentle on my mind
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Though the wheat fields & the clothes lines and junkyards & the highways come between us,
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And some other woman's crying to her mother, 'cause she turned and I was gone.
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I still might run in silence, tears of joy might stain my face
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and the summer sun might burn me 'till I'm blind
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But not to where I cannot see you walkin on the backroads
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by the rivers flowing gentle on my mind
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I dip my cup of soup back from the gurglin' cracklin' cauldron in some trainyard;
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My beard a roughning coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low across my face.
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Through cupped hands 'round a tin can I pretend I hold you to my breast and find
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That you're waving from the backroads by the rivers of my memory
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ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind.
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