Dean Martin - Gentle on My Mind lyrics

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 up on 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 binds 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 by
The rivers of my memory
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind

Well I dip my cup of soup back from
The gurgling crackling caldron in
Some train yard
My beard a roughening coal pile and a
Dirty hat pulled low across my face

Cupped hands 'round a tin can
I pretend I hold you to my
Breast and find that you're
Waving from the back roads by
The river of my memory
Ever smiling ever gentle on my mind