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作曲 : John Hartford |
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It's knowing that your door is always open |
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And your path is free to walk |
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That 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 bonds |
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And the ink stains that have dried upon some line |
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That keeps you on the back roads by the rivers of my memory |
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That keeps you ever gentle on my mind |
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And it's not clinging to the rocks and ivy planted on their columns |
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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 that the world will not be cursing or forgiving |
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When I walk along some railroad track and find |
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That you're moving on the back roads 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 clothes lines |
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And the junkyards and the highways flow between us |
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And some other woman's cryin' to her mother |
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'Cause she turned and you were gone |
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I still might run in silence, 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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Walkin' on the back roads |
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By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind |
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You dip your cup of soup back |
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From a gurglin', cracklin' caldron in some train yard |
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Your beard a rustling coal pile |
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And a dirty hat pulled low across your face |
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Through cupped hands 'round a tin can, |
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I pretend to hold you to myself and find |
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That you're waiting from the back roads by the rivers of my memories |
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Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind |
