Gentle on My Mind Songtext

von Ray Conniff

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Der Songtext "Gentle on My Mind" von Ray Conniff handelt von der Liebe und dem Gefühl der Verbundenheit zu jemandem, auc...

It's knowin' that your door is always open
And your path is free to walk.
That makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch.
And it's knowin' 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 mem'ry
It keeps you ever gentle on my mind.
It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy
Planted on some columns now that bind us.
Or something that somebody said because
They thought we fit together walkin'.
It's just knowing that the world
Will not be cursing or forgiving
When I drift in through the marketplace and find
That you're movin' on the back roads
By the rivers of my mem'ry
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 cryin' to her mother
'cause she turned and love 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 walkin' on the back roads
By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind.
The shutters creak and autumn winds
That make me draw inside myself in silence.
Cross-legged now I sit and watch
The endless chase of leaves across the ground.
I close my eyes and see you there
And then to hold you to my breast and find
That you're movin' on the back roads
By the rivers of my mem'ry
Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind.
That you're movin' on the back roads
By the rivers of my mem'ry
Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind.