《The Randall Knife(LP版)》歌词

歌曲： The Randall Knife(LP版)

所属专辑：Dublin Blues

歌手： Guy Clark

时长： 05:32

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The Randall Knife - Guy Clark[00:00:00]

My father had a Randall knife[00:00:30]

My mother gave it to him[00:00:33]

When he went off to WWII[00:00:37]

To save us all from ruin[00:00:40]

If you've ever held a Randall knife[00:00:46]

Then you know my father well[00:00:49]

If a better blade was ever made[00:00:53]

It was probably forged in hell[00:00:56]

My father was a good man[00:01:03]

A lawyer by his trade[00:01:06]

And only once did I ever see[00:01:10]

Him misuse the blade[00:01:12]

It almost cut his thumb off[00:01:18]

When he took it for a tool[00:01:23]

The knife was made for darker things[00:01:27]

And you could not bend the rules[00:01:31]

He let me take it camping once[00:01:36]

On a Boy Scout jamboree[00:01:40]

And I broke a half an inch off[00:01:44]

Trying to stick it in a tree[00:01:47]

I hid it from him for a while[00:01:53]

But the knife and he were one[00:01:57]

He put it in his bottom drawer[00:02:01]

Without a hard word one[00:02:04]

There it slept and there it stayed[00:02:10]

For twenty some odd years[00:02:14]

Sort of like Excalibur[00:02:18]

Except waiting for a tear[00:02:21]

My father died when I was forty[00:02:57]

And I couldn't find a way to cry[00:03:00]

Not because I didn't love him[00:03:04]

Not because he didn't try[00:03:08]

I'd cried for every lesser thing[00:03:13]

Whiskey pain and beauty[00:03:17]

But he deserved a better tear[00:03:22]

And I was not quite ready[00:03:24]

So we took his ashed out to sea[00:03:31]

And poured 'em off the stern[00:03:35]

And threw the roses in the wake[00:03:39]

Of everything we'd learned[00:03:42]

When we got back to the house[00:03:48]

They asked me what I wanted[00:03:52]

Not the lawbooks not the watch[00:03:56]

I need the things he's haunted[00:03:59]

My hand burned for the Randall knife[00:04:04]

There in the bottom drawer[00:04:09]

And I found a tear for my father's life[00:04:13]

And all that it stood for[00:04:16]