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 your path is free to walk 和你的道路是自由漫步

That makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag 这使我倾向于离开我睡袋

Rolled up and stashed behind your couch 卷起来藏你的沙发背后

And it's knowin' I'm not shackled 而且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 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 这让你在后面的道路

By the rivers of my memory 在我记忆的河流

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

   

It's not clingin' to the rocks and ivy 这不是clingin 的岩石和常春藤

Planted on their columns now that bind me 种植在他们的列，现在结合我

Or something that somebody said because 什么的，有人说是因为

They thought we fit together walkin' 他们以为我们结合在一起走着

It's just knowing that the world 它只是知道这个世界

Will not be cursing or forgiving 会不会骂或宽容

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 那你就回来的道路往前

   

By the rivers of my memory 在我记忆的河流

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

And the junkyards and the highways come between us 而废品站和公路来我们之间

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

Tears of joy might stain my face 喜悦的泪水会弄脏我的脸

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 但不要在那里我看不到

You walkin' on the back roads 你走着在后面的道路

By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind 通过流温柔在我心中的河

   

I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin' cracklin' cauldron í蘸汤我的杯子从gurglin回 cracklin 大锅

In some train yard 在某些机厂

My beard a rustlin' coal pile 我的胡子rustlin “煤堆

And a dirty hat pulled low across my face 和一个肮脏的帽子拉低划过我的脸

Through cupped hands 'round a tin can 通过双手捧着“圆铁罐

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 waitin' from the back roads 那你从后面的道路是等着

By the rivers of my memory 在我记忆的河流

Ever smilin', ever gentle on my mind 永远微笑 ，在我心中永远的温柔