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 upon some line That keeps you in the
back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry 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
and find That you're moving on the back roads by
the rivers of my mem'ry For hours you're just
gentle on my mind Though the wheat fields and the
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come between us And some other woman crying to her
mother cause she turned and I was gone I still
might run in silence tears of joy might stain my
face And a summer sun might burn me till I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you walking on the
back roads By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind
I dip my cup of soup back from a gurgling
crackling cauldron in some train yard My beard a
roughening coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low
across my face Through cupped hands around a tin
can I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
That you're waving from the back roads by the
rivers of my mem'ry Ever smiling ever gentle on my
mind