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 have dried up on some line
That keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of my memory
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind
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 by the rivers of my
memory
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind
Well I dip my cup of soup back from the gurgling crackling
caldron in some train yard
My beard a roughening coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low across
my face
Cupped hands 'round a tin can
I pretend I hold you to my breast and find that you're waving
from the back roads by the river of my memory
Ever smiling ever gentle on my mind
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