Song: Gentle On My Mind
Singer: Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell

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 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 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 back roads
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
crying 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 walking on the back roads
By the rivers flowing gentle
on my mind
I dip my cup of soup back from
a gurgling crackling cauldron
In some train yard
My beard a rustling 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 waiting from the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
Ever smiling ever gentle on my mind