It's knowing that your door is always open and your path is free to walk 它知道你的门始终是敞开的，你的道路是自由漫步

That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch 这使我倾向于离开我的睡袋卷起来藏你的沙发背后

And it's knowing I'm not shacked by forgotten words and bons 而且它知道我不会被遗忘的单词和丝宝浮游

And the ink stains that have dried upon some line 并且在某些行已经干涸的墨渍

That keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry 这让你在后面的道路我的memry的河流

Keeps you ever gentle on my mind 让你在我心中永远的温柔

It's not clinging to the rocks and I'd be planted on their columns now that binds me 这不是紧紧地抱住了岩石和我会在他们的列植，现在结合我

Or something that somebody said because they thought we fit together walkin' 什么的，有人说是因为他们认为我们结合在一起走着

It's just knowing that the world will not be cursin' or forgivin' 它只是知道这个世界不会cursin “或forgivin ”

When I walk along some railroad track and find 当我沿着走一些铁轨，找到

That you're movin' on the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry 那你就回来的道路往前我的memry的河流

And for hours you're just gentle on my mind 而几个小时你在我心中只是温柔

Though the wheet fields and the clothes lines 虽然wheet领域和衣服行

And the junk yards and the highways come between us 而垃圾场和高速公路来我们之间

And some other woman 's cryin' to her mother cause she turned and I was gone 和其他一些女人的哭泣，她的母亲，因为她转过身来，我走了

I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face 我仍然会在这欢乐的泪水默默地会弄脏我的脸跑

And the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind 和夏天的阳光会烧我，直到我瞎了

But not to where I cannot see you walking on the back roads 但不要在那里我看不到你走在后面的道路

By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind 通过流动的温柔在我心中的河

I dipped my cup of soap back from a gurglin' cracklin' caltron in some train yard í沾我的杯子肥皂回来的部分列车院子里gurglin “ cracklin ” caltron

My beard a roughen coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low across my face 我胡子粗化煤堆和肮脏的帽子拉低划过我的脸

Through cupped hands round a tin can I pretend to hold you to my breast and find 通过双手捧着圆形锡我可以假装抱着你到我的乳房，并找到

That you're waving from the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry 你是从后面的道路我的memry的河流挥手

Ever you're just gentle on my mind 自从你在我心中只是温柔