Key: D
Introduction:
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Primeira Parte: Parte 1 de 7
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It's knowing that your door
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Is always open and your path
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Is free to walk
That makes me tend
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To leave my sleeping bag rolled up
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And stashed behind your couch
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And it's knowing
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I'm not shackled by
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Forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that
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Have dried upon some line
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That keeps you on the back roads
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By the rivers of my memory
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That keeps you ever gentle on my mind
Segunda Parte: Parte 1 de 2
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It's not clinging to the rocks
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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
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Together walkin'
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It's just knowing
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That the world will not be
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Cursing or forgiving
When I walk along
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Some railroad track and find
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That you're moving on the back roads
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By the rivers of my memory
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And for hours you're just
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Gentle on my mind
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Though the wheat fields
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And the clothes lines
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And the junkyards
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And the highways come between us
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And some other woman's crying
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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 summer sun might burn me
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Till I'm blind
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But not to where I cannot see
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You walkin' on the back roads
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By the rivers
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Flowing gentle on my mind
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I dip my cup of soup
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Back from the gurglin'
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Crackling cauldron
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In some train yard
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My beard, a rustling cold towel
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And a dirty hat pulled low
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Across my face
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Through cupped hands
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'round a tin can
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I pretend I hold you
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To my breast and find
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That you're wavin' from the back roads
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By the rivers of my memories
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Ever smilin'
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Ever gentle on my mind
Gentle on my mind