it's knowing that your door is always open
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and your path is free to walk
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makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
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rolled up and stashed behind your couch
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and it's knowing i'm not shackled
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by forgotten words and bombs
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and the extains that are dried on sunlight
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that keeps you in the backroads
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by the rivers of my memory
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that keeps you ever gentle on my mind
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it's not clinging to the rocks and ivy plan
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on their columns now that bind me
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or something that somebody said
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because they thought we fit together walking
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it's just knowing
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that the world will not be mercy or forgiving
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when i walk along some railroad track and find
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that your moving on the backroads
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by the rivers of my memory
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and for hours you're just gentle on my mind
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though the wheat fields and the clotheslines
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and the junkyards and the highway come between us
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and some other woman's crying to her mother
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cause she turned and i was gone
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i still might run in silence
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tears of joy might stain my face
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and the summer sun might burn me till i'm blind
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but not to where i cannot see you
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walking on the backroads
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by the rivers flowing gentle on my mind
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my cup of suit back from the gurbling
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crackling cornered in some train yard
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my bear to rub in cold pile
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and a dirty hat full blown across my face
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through cup hands 'round a tin can
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i pretend to hold you to my breast
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and find
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that you're waving from the backroads
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by the rivers of my memories
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ever smiling ever
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on my mind
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