[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