Tom: D
Introdução: D
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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 are dried upon some line
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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
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Planted 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 that the world will not be cursing
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Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find
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That you' re 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 clothes lines
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And the junkyards and the highways come between us
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And some other woman' s cryin' to her mother
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' Cause she turned and I was 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 ' til I' m blind
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But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads
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By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind
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I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin'
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Cracklin' cauldron in some train yard
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My beard a roughenin' coal pile, and
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A dirty hat pulled low across my face
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Through cupped hands ' round the tin can
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I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
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That you' re waiting from the backroads
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By the rivers of my memories
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Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind