[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:09.97]It's knowing that your door is always open [00:12.78]And your path is free to walk [00:18.62]That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag [00:21.20]Rolled up and stashed behind your couch [00:27.00]And it's knowing I'm not shackled [00:29.11]By forgotten words and bonds [00:31.18]And the ink stains that are dried upon some line [00:37.62]That keeps you in the backroads [00:39.82]By the rivers of my memory [00:41.90]That keeps you ever gentle on my mind [00:48.10]It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy [00:50.56]Planted on their columns now that bind me [00:56.75]Or something that somebody said [00:59.15]Because they thought we fit together walking [01:05.14]It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing [01:08.30]Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find [01:15.79]That you're moving on the backroads [01:17.97]By the rivers of my memory [01:20.24]And for hours you're just gentle on my mind [01:26.61]Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines [01:28.77]And the junkyards and the highways come between us [01:34.92]And some other woman's cryin' to her mother [01:38.01]'Cause she turned and I was gone [01:43.57]I still might run in silence tears [01:45.92]Of joy might stain my face [01:47.87]And the summer sun might burn me [01:49.95]'Til I'm blind [01:54.28]But not to where I cannot see [01:56.52]You walkin' on the backroads [01:58.68]By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind [02:05.13]The shutters creak and autumn winds [02:07.21]That make me draw inside myself in silence [02:13.50]Cross legged now I sit and watch [02:15.70]The endless chase of leaves across my yard [02:21.84]And laying down my hairbrush [02:24.12]I lean back within my window seat and find [02:30.39]That you're moving on the backroads [02:32.56]By the rivers of my memory [02:34.76]Ever smiling ever gentle on my mind [02:41.23]Through cupped hands 'round a tin can [02:43.41]I pretend I hold you to my breast and find [02:49.46]That you're waving from the backroads [02:51.73]By the rivers of my memory [02:53.87]Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind