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 shacked by
forgotten words and bons And the ink stains that
have dried upon some line That keeps you on 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 I'd be planted
on their columns now that binds me Or somethin'
that somebody said because they thought we fit
together walking It's just knowing that the world
will not be cursin' or forgivin' When I walk along
some railroad track 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 wheet fields and the clothes lines And
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And some other woman's cryin' 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 walkin' on the back roads
By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind

The shadows freek in the autumn winds that make me
draw inside myself in silence Cross legged now I
sit and watch the endless chase of leaves across
my yard And laying down my hair brush I lean back
within my window seat and find That you're moving
on the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry Evrer
smiling ever gentle on my mind

That you're waving from the back roads by the
rivers of my mem'ry Ever smiling ever gentle on my
mind