Gentle On My Mind

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[Verse 1]
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It's knowing that your door is 
always open
                         Em
and your path is free to walk,
     A
That makes me tends to leave my 
sleeping bag rolled up
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and stashed behind your couch.

[Verse 2]
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It's knowing I'm not shackled by 
forgotten words and bars
and the ink stains that have dried 
          Em
upon some lines,
     A
that keeps you on the back roads by 
the rivers of my memory
and keeps you ever gentle on my 
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mind.

[Verse 3]
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It's not clinging to the rocks and 
ivy, planted on the columns,
         Em
now that binds me;
   A
or something that somebody said
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because they thought we fit together
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 walkin'.

[Verse 4]
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It's just knowing that the world 
will not be cursed or forgiven
when I walk along some railway track
     Em
 and find
            A
that you're waiting on the back 
roads by the rivers of my memory
for hours, you're just gentle on my 
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mind.

[Verse 5]
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Though the wheat fields and the 
clothes lines and the junkyards
                        Em
and the highways come between us
         A
and some other woman's crying to her
 mother 'cause she turned
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and I was gone.

[Verse 6]
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Well, I still might run in silence 
tears of joy might stain my face
and the summer sun might burn me 
         Em
till I'm blind.
    A
But not to where I cannot see you 
walkin' on the back roads
by the rivers flowing gentle on my 
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mind.

[Verse 7]
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Well, I dip my cup of soup back from
 a gurgling bubbling cauldron
        Em
in some train yard;
   A
my beard rough and the coal pile and
 a dirty hat pulled low
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'cross my face.

[Verse 8]
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Through cupped hand, drivin' tin 
can,
I pretend to hold you to my breast 
    Em
and find
            A
that you're waiving on the back 
roads by the rivers of my memory,
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ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind.