所属专辑:Better Days
歌手: Guy Clark
时长: 04:14
The Randall Knife (兰德尔刀) (LP版) - Guy Clark[00:00:00]
My father had a randall knife[00:00:15]
My mother gave it to him[00:00:18]
When he went off to WWII[00:00:21]
To save us all from ruin[00:00:25]
If you've ever held a Randall knife[00:00:28]
Then you know my father well[00:00:32]
If a better blade was ever made[00:00:35]
It was probably forged in hell[00:00:38]
My father was a good man[00:00:44]
He was a lawyer by his trade[00:00:47]
And only once did I ever see[00:00:50]
Him misuse the blade[00:00:54]
Well it almost cut his thumb off[00:00:57]
When he took it for a tool[00:01:01]
The knife was made for darker things[00:01:04]
And you could not bend the rules[00:01:07]
He let me take it camping once[00:01:12]
On a Boy Scout jamboree[00:01:16]
And I broke a half an inch off[00:01:19]
Trying to stick it in a tree[00:01:22]
I hid it from him for a while[00:01:26]
But the knife and he were one[00:01:30]
He put it in his bottom drawer[00:01:33]
Without a hard word one[00:01:36]
There it slept and there it stayed[00:01:42]
For twenty some odd years[00:01:45]
Sort of like Excalibur[00:01:49]
Except waiting for a tear[00:01:51]
My father died when I was forty[00:02:09]
And I couldn't find a way to cry[00:02:12]
Not because I didn't love him[00:02:16]
Not because he didn't try[00:02:19]
I'd cried for every lesser thing[00:02:22]
Whiskey pain and beauty[00:02:26]
But he deserved a better tear[00:02:30]
And I was not quite ready[00:02:33]
So we took his ashed out to sea[00:02:38]
And poured them off the stern[00:02:42]
And threw the roses in the wake[00:02:45]
Of everything we'd learned[00:02:48]
When we got back to the house[00:02:52]
They asked me what I wanted[00:02:55]
Not the lawbooks not the watch[00:02:59]
I need the things he's haunted[00:03:01]
My hand burned for the Randall knife[00:03:06]
There in the bottom drawer[00:03:11]
And I found a tear for my father's life[00:03:14]
All that it stood for[00:03:18]