Lyrics of Leonard Nimoy's songs

~ Gentle On My Mind

Well, 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 line
That keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of my memory
That 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 something that somebody said because they thought we fit together walkin'
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing and forgiving as I walk along some railroad track and find
That you're movin' on the back roads by the rivers of my memory
Ever smilin', ever 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 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 a gurglin' cracklin' cauldron in some train yard
My beard a rustlin' coal pile and 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 waitin' from the back roads by the rivers of my memory
Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind

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