It's knowin' that your door is always open 它深深地知道 ，你的大门始终是敞开

And you path is free to walk 而你的路径是自由漫步

That makes me tend to keep my sleeping bag rolled up 这使我倾向于保持我的睡袋卷起

And stashed behind your couch 和藏你的沙发背后

   

It's knowin' I'm not shackled 它深深地知道我不是束缚

By forgotten words and bonds 由被遗忘的单词和债券

And the heat stains that have dried up on some lovin' 而这已经干涸了一些心爱的热量污渍“

That keeps you in the back roads 这让你在后面的道路

By the rivers of my memory 在我记忆的河流

It keeps you ever gentle on my mind 它让你永远在我心中的温柔

   

It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy 这不是紧紧地抱住了岩石和常春藤

Planted on their columns mellowed by me 种植由我婉转的列

Or something that somebody said 什么的，有人说：

Because they thought we'd fit together walking 因为他们认为我们会结合在一起行走

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

Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find 或宽容，当我沿着走一些铁轨，并找到

That you're moving on the back roads 那你要在后面的道路

By the rivers of my memory and for hours 我的记忆和时间的河流

You're just gentle on my mind 你在我心中只是温柔

   

Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines 尽管麦田和衣服行

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 和其他一些女人的哭泣，她的母亲

'Cause she turned and I was gone 因为她转过身来，我走了

I still might run in silence 我还是会在沉默中运行

Till' the join might stain my face 至的加入​​可能会弄脏我的脸

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 但不要在那里我看不到你

Walking in the back roads 走在后面的道路

By the rivers flowing gently on my mind 通过在我心中轻轻流淌的河流

   

I dip my cup of soup from a gurgling, í沾我的一杯羹从潺潺，

cracking cauldron in some train yard 在某些机厂开裂的大锅

I'm barely runnin' cold how 我勉强天边冷如何

Have a dirty hat pulled low across my face 有一个肮脏的帽子拉低划过我的脸

Who cupped hands around the tin cans 谁身边锡罐捧着手中

I pretend to hold you to my breast and find 我假装抱着你到我的乳房，并找到

That you're wavin' from the back roads 你是从后方路况威文“

By the rivers of my memory 在我记忆的河流

Ever smiling never changes on my mind 永远的微笑永远不会改变我的主意