Intro
Verse
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
Verse 2
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 Backroads
By The Rivers Of My Mem'ry
That Keeps You Ever Gentle On My Mind
Verse 3
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
Verse 4
It's Just Knowing That The World Will Not Be Cursing Or Forgiving When I Walk Along Some
Railroad Track And Find That You Are Moving On The
Backroads
By The Rivers Of My
Mem'ry And For Hours You're Just Gentle On My Mind
Verse 5
Though The Wheat Fields And The
Clothes Lines
And The Junkyards And The
Highways
Come Between Us
Verse 6
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 The Summer Sun Might
Burn Me 'Til I'm Blind But Not To Where I Cannot See You Walkin' On The Backroads By The
Rivers Flowing Gentle On My Mind
Outro
I Dip My Cup Of Soup Back From The Gurglin' Cracklin' Caldron In Some Train Yard
My Beard A Roughning Coal Pile And A Dirty Hat Pulled Low Across My Face
