[ti:Gentle On My Mind] [ar:Elvis Presley] [al:From Nashville to Memphis: The] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Gentle On My Mind - Elvis Presley (猫王) [00:06.79]It's knowin' that your door is always open [00:10.66]And your path is free to walk [00:17.40]That makes me tend to keep my sleeping bag rolled up [00:22.95]And stashed behind your couch [00:27.83]It's knowin' I'm not shackled [00:30.45]By forgotten words and bonds [00:33.07]And the ink stains that have dried upon some line [00:41.06]That keeps you in the back roads [00:43.57]By the rivers of my memory [00:46.52]And keeps you ever gentle on my mind [00:53.98]It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy [00:57.18]Planted on their columns now that binds me [01:04.59]Or something that somebody said [01:07.28]Because they thought we fit together walking [01:14.84]It's just knowing that the world will not be cursin' [01:18.96]Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find [01:27.60]That you're moving on the back roads [01:30.42]By the rivers of my memory and for hours [01:34.31]You're just gentle on my mind [01:40.67]Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines [01:43.42]And the junk yards and the highways come between us [01:48.60]And some other woman's cryin' to her mother [01:54.34]'Cause she turned and I was gone [02:00.14] [02:01.08]I still might run in silence [02:03.57]Tears of joy might stain my face [02:06.20]And the summer sun might burn me 'till I'm blind [02:13.76]But not to where I cannot see you [02:16.44]Walking in the back roads [02:19.12]By the rivers flowing gently on my mind [02:26.51]I dip my cup of soup back from a gurgling [02:29.81]Crackling cauldron in some train yard [02:36.69]My beard a roughening coal pile [02:39.12]And a dirty hat pulled low across my face [02:46.67]With cupped hands around a tine can [02:49.17]I pretend to hold you to my breast and find [02:56.47]That you're wavin' from the back roads [02:59.03]By the rivers of my memory [03:01.71]Ever smiling ever gentle on my mind