Intro
Verse 1
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 Are Dried Upon Some Line
That Keeps You In The Backroads
By The Rivers Of My Memory
That Keeps You Ever Gentle On My Mind
Verse 2
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 Backroads
By The Rivers Of My Memory
And For Hours, You’re Just Gentle On My Mind
Verse 3
Though The Wheat Fields And The Clothes Lines And The
Junkyards And The Highways Come Between Us
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 The Summer Sun Might Burn Me
'Til I'm Blind
But Not To Where I Cannot See You
Walkin' On The Backroads By The River
Flowing Gentle On My Mind
Outro
I Dip My Cup Of Soup Back From A Gurglin', Cracklin'
Cauldron In Some Train Yard
My Beard A Roughenin' Coal Pile And A Dirty Hat
Pulled Low Across My Face
Through Cupped Hands 'Round A Tin Can I Pretend
To Hold You To My Breast And Find
That You're Waving From The Backroads
By The Rivers Of My Memory Ever
Smilin' Ever Gentle On My Mind
