《The Randall Knife(LP版)》歌词

歌曲： The Randall Knife(LP版)

所属专辑：Better Days

歌手： Guy Clark

时长： 04:14

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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]