I'll be right back, okay?
00:16
All right.
00:18
Hey, I got . . .
00:55
I know.
01:12
It's knowing that your
door is always open
01:18
And your path is free to walk
01:21
That makes me tend to
leave my sleeping bag
01:27
Rolled up and stashed
behind your couch
01:30
And it's knowing
I'm not shackled
01:36
by forgotten words and bonds
01:37
And the ink stains that
are dried upon some line
01:41
That keeps you on the back roads
01:46
By the rivers of my memory
01:49
That keeps you ever
gentle on my mind
01:52
It's not clinging to
the rocks and ivy
01:58
Planted on their columns
now that bind me
02:00
Or something that somebody said
02:07
Because they thought we
fit together walking
02:09
It's just knowing that the world
will not be cursing or forgiving
02:17
When I walk along some
railroad track and find
02:21
That you're moving
on the back roads
02:27
By the rivers of my memory
02:29
And for hours you're
just gentle on my mind
02:33
Though the wheat fields
and the clothes lines
02:38
And the junkyards and the
highways come between us
02:40
And some other woman's
cryin' to her mother
02:47
'Cause she turned and I was gone
02:50
I still might run in silence
tears of joy might stain my face
02:56
And the summer sun might
burn me 'til I'm blind
03:01
Oh but not to where I cannot see
you walkin' on the back roads
03:08
By the rivers flowing
gentle on my mind.
03:13
I dip my cup of soup
back from a gurglin'
03:19
Cracklin' cauldron
in some train yard
03:22
My beard a rustling,
a cold towel,
03:28
A dirty hat pulled low across
my face (across my face)
03:31
Through cupped hands
'round the tin can
03:37
I pretend to hold you
to my breast and find
03:40
That you're waiting
from the back roads
03:45
By the rivers of my memories
03:48
Ever smilin' ever
gentle on my mind
03:50
Gentle on my mind
03:56
You are gentle on my mind
04:00
Oooo Oooo Oooo Yeah
04:06
