[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:08.46]It's knowin' that your door is always open [00:11.73]And your path is free to walk [00:17.52]That makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag [00:20.17]Rolled up and stashed behind your couch [00:26.13]And it's knowin' I'm not shackled [00:28.26]By forgotten words and bonds [00:30.68]And the ink stains that have dried upon some line [00:37.37]That keeps you in the back roads [00:39.53]By the rivers of my memory [00:41.99]That keeps you ever gentle on my mind [00:48.45]It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy [00:51.03]Planted on their columns now that bind me [00:57.21]Or something that somebody said because [01:00.13]They thought we fit together walkin' [01:05.92]It's just knowing that the world [01:07.88]Will not be cursing or forgiving [01:10.68]When I walk along some railroad track and find [01:17.01]That you're movin' on the back roads [01:19.50]By the rivers of my memory [01:21.45]And for hours you're just gentle on my mind [01:28.15]Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines [01:30.53]And the junkyards and the highways come between us [01:36.72]And some other woman's cryin' to her mother [01:40.02]'Cause she turned and I was gone [01:45.70]I still might run in silence [01:47.94]Tears of joy might stain my face [01:50.32]And the summer sun might burn me [01:52.21]'Till I'm blind [01:56.74]But not to where I cannot see [01:59.13]You walkin' on the back roads [02:01.37]By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind [02:08.06]I dip my cup of soup back [02:09.85]From a gurglin' cracklin' cauldron [02:11.94]In some train yard [02:16.54]My beard a rustlin' coal pile [02:18.86]And a dirty hat pulled low across my face [02:25.32]Through cupped hands 'round a tin can [02:27.42]I pretend to hold you to my breast and find [02:33.59]That you're waitin' from the back roads [02:36.17]By the rivers of my memory [02:38.31]Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind