[ti:Gentle On My Mind] [ar:The Band Perry] [al:2015 GRAMMY Nominees] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Gentle On My Mind - The Band Perry [00:06.34]It's knowing that your door is always open [00:09.35]And your path is free to walk [00:15.23]That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag [00:18.30]Rolled up and stashed behind your couch [00:24.26]And it's knowing I'm not shackled [00:26.19]By forgotten words and bonds [00:28.80]And the ink stains that are dried upon some line [00:35.51]That keeps you on the backroads [00:37.77]By the rivers of my memory [00:40.17]That keeps you ever gentle on my mind [00:46.43]It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy [00:49.09]Planted on their columns now that bind me [00:55.79]Or something that somebody said [00:58.12]Because they thought we fit together walking [01:04.29]It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing [01:07.53]Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find [01:15.65]That you're moving on the backroads [01:18.13]By the rivers of my memory [01:20.31]And for hours you're just gentle on my mind [01:26.83]Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines [01:29.07]And the junkyards and the highways come between us [01:35.83]And some other woman's cryin' to her mother [01:39.11]'Cause she turned and I was gone [01:45.61]I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face [01:49.47]And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind [01:55.99]But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads [02:00.83]By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind [02:07.46]I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin' [02:10.65]Cracklin' caldron in some train yard [02:16.42]My beard a rustling cold towel and [02:19.15]A dirty hat pulled low across my face [02:25.49]Through cupped hands 'round the tin can [02:27.52]I pretend to hold you to my breast and find [02:34.28]That you're waiting from the backroads [02:36.56]By the rivers of my memories [02:38.90]Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind [02:44.78]Gentle on my mind [02:48.75]You're gentle on my mind