《The Randall Knife》歌词

歌曲： The Randall Knife

所属专辑：Songs And Stories

歌手： Guy Clark

时长： 04:34

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My father had a Randall knife[00:00:28]

My mother gave it to him[00:00:31]

When he went off to WWII[00:00:35]

To save us all from ruin[00:00:37]

If you've ever held a Randall knife[00:00:43]

Then you know my father well[00:00:46]

If a better blade was ever made[00:00:50]

It was probably forged in hell[00:00:52]

My father was a good man[00:00:59]

A lawyer by his trade[00:01:02]

And only once did I ever see[00:01:06]

Him misuse the blade[00:01:08]

It almost cut his thumb off[00:01:15]

When he took it for a tool[00:01:17]

The knife was made for darker things[00:01:21]

And you could not bend the rules[00:01:24]

He let me take it camping once[00:01:30]

On a Boy Scout jamboree[00:01:33]

And I broke a half an inch off[00:01:34]

Trying to stick it in a tree[00:01:40]

I hid it from him for a while[00:01:47]

But the knife and he were one[00:01:49]

He put it in his bottom drawer[00:01:53]

Without a hard word one[00:01:54]

There it slept and there it stayed[00:01:58]

For twenty some odd years[00:02:05]

Sort of like Excalibur[00:02:09]

Except waiting for a tear[00:02:11]

My father died when I was forty[00:02:48]

And I couldn't find a way to cry[00:02:49]

Not because I didn't love him[00:02:52]

Not because he didn't try[00:02:56]

I'd cried for every lesser thing[00:03:00]

Whiskey pain and beauty[00:03:05]

But he deserved a better tear[00:03:07]

And I was not quite ready[00:03:13]

So we took his ashed out to sea[00:03:23]

And poured 'em off the stern[00:03:24]

And threw the roses in the wake[00:03:26]

Of everything we'd learned[00:03:31]

When we got back to the house[00:03:36]

They asked me what I wanted[00:03:40]

Not the lawbooks not the watch[00:03:43]

I need the things he's haunted[00:03:45]

My hand burned for the Randall knife[00:03:53]

There in the bottom drawer[00:03:55]

And I found a tear for my father's life[00:04:01]

And all that it stood for[00:04:02]