IntroVerse 1It's Knowing That Your Door Is Always OpenAnd Your Path Is Free To WalkThat Makes Me Tend To Leave My Sleeping BagRolled Up And Stashed Behind Your CouchAnd It's Knowing I'm Not ShackledBy Forgotten Words And Bonds And The Ink StainsThat Are Dried Upon Some LineThat Keeps You In The BackroadsBy The Rivers Of My MemoryThat Keeps You Ever Gentle On My MindVerse 2It's Not Clinging To The Rocks And IvyPlanted On Their Columns Now That Binds MeOr Something That Somebody SaidBecause They Thought We Fit Together WalkingIt's Just Knowing That The World Will Not Be CursingOr Forgiving When I Walk Along Some Railroad TrackAnd FindThat You're Moving On The BackroadsBy The Rivers Of My MemoryAnd For Hours, You’re Just Gentle On My MindVerse 3Though The Wheat Fields And The Clothes Lines And TheJunkyards And The Highways Come Between UsAnd Some Other Woman's Cryin' To Her Mother'Cause She Turned And I Was GoneI Still Might Run In SilenceTears Of Joy Might Stain My FaceAnd The Summer Sun Might Burn Me'Til I'm BlindBut Not To Where I Cannot See YouWalkin' On The Backroads By The RiverFlowing Gentle On My MindOutroI Dip My Cup Of Soup Back From A Gurglin', Cracklin'Cauldron In Some Train YardMy Beard A Roughenin' Coal Pile And A Dirty HatPulled Low Across My FaceThrough Cupped Hands 'Round A Tin Can I PretendTo Hold You To My Breast And FindThat You're Waving From The BackroadsBy The Rivers Of My Memory EverSmilin' Ever Gentle On My Mind
