[00:01.53]
[00:06.21]Let's knowing that your door is always open
[00:09.14]and your path is free to walk
[00:11.18]
[00:15.13]That makes me tend
[00:16.47]to leave my sleeping bag rolled up
[00:18.70]and stashed behind your couch
[00:20.74]
[00:24.40]And it's knowing I'm not shackled
[00:26.73]by forgotten words and bonds
[00:28.11]
[00:28.71]And the ink stains
[00:30.11]that have dried up on some line
[00:31.98]
[00:35.45]That keeps you in the back roads
[00:37.71]by the rivers of my memory
[00:39.41]
[00:40.08]That keeps you ever gentle on my mind.
[00:43.09]
[00:46.31]It's not clinging to the rocks
[00:48.39]and ivy planted on their columns now
[00:51.14]that binds me
[00:52.13]
[00:55.86]Or something that somebody said
[00:57.92]because they thought we fit together walking
[01:00.64]
[01:04.17]It's just knowing that the world
[01:06.34]will not be cursing or forgiving
[01:08.13]
[01:09.02]when I walk along
[01:10.22]some railroad track fine
[01:11.84]
[01:15.52]That you're moving on the back roads
[01:18.01]By the rivers of my memory and for hours
[01:21.05]You're just gentle on my mind
[01:23.68]
[01:26.67]Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines
[01:29.06]And the junk yards and the highways come between us
[01:32.43]
[01:35.77]And some other woman's cryin' to her mother
[01:39.07]'Cause she turned and I was gone
[01:41.60]
[01:45.07]I still might run in silence
[01:46.79]Tears of joy might stain my face
[01:49.34]And the summer sun might burn me 'till I'm blind
[01:52.30]
[01:55.78]But not to where I cannot see you
[01:58.73]Walking in the back roads
[02:00.63]By the rivers flowing gently on my mind
[02:03.74]
[02:07.38]I dip my cup of soup from a gurgling,
[02:10.35]cracking cauldron in some train yard
[02:12.88]
[02:16.20]My beard a roughening coal pile
[02:18.57]
[02:19.08]And a dirty hat pulled low across my face
[02:21.75]
[02:25.37]Through cupped hands around the tin can
[02:27.41]I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
[02:30.53]
[02:34.21]That you're wavin' from the back roads
[02:36.64]By the rivers of my memory
[02:38.59]Ever smiling ever gentle on my mind
[02:41.73]
[02:44.68]gentle on my mind
[02:46.10]
[02:48.46]you are gentle on my mind
[02:51.11]
[02:54.67]woo woo woo yeah