《Randall Knife》歌词

歌曲： Randall Knife

所属专辑：Live From Austin TX

歌手： Guy Clark

时长： 04:28

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Randall Knife (Live) - Guy Clark[00:00:01]

My father had a randall knife[00:00:26]

My mother gave it to him[00:00:29]

When he went off to wwii[00:00:32]

To save us all from ruin[00:00:34]

If you've ever held a randall knife[00:00:39]

Then you know my father well[00:00:43]

If a better blade was ever made[00:00:46]

It was probably forged in hell[00:00:49]

My father was a good man[00:00:54]

A lawyer by his trade[00:00:57]

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

Him misuse the blade[00:01:03]

It almost cut his thumb off[00:01:07]

When he took it for a tool[00:01:11]

The knife was made for darker things[00:01:14]

Could not bend the rules[00:01:17]

He let me take it camping once[00:01:23]

On a boy scout jamboree[00:01:25]

I broke a half an inch off[00:01:29]

Trying to stick it in a tree[00:01:31]

I hid it from him for a while[00:01:37]

But the knife and he were one[00:01:40]

He put it in his bottom drawer[00:01:43]

Without a hard word one[00:01:46]

There it slept and there it stayed[00:01:51]

For twenty some odd years[00:01:54]

Sort of like excalibur[00:01:57]

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

My father died when I was forty[00:02:32]

And I couldn't find a way to cry[00:02:35]

Not because I didn't love him[00:02:39]

Not because he didn't try[00:02:42]

I'd cried for every lesser thing[00:02:46]

Whiskey pain and beauty[00:02:50]

But he deserved a better tear[00:02:53]

And I was not quite ready[00:02:56]

So we took his ashed out to sea[00:03:02]

Poured 'em off the stern[00:03:05]

And threw the roses in the wake[00:03:08]

Of everything we'd learned[00:03:11]

When we got back to the house[00:03:16]

They asked me what I wanted[00:03:19]

Not the lawbooks not the watch[00:03:22]

I need the things he's haunted[00:03:25]

My hand burned for the randall knife[00:03:29]

There in the bottom drawer[00:03:34]

And I found a tear for my father's life[00:03:37]

All that it stood for[00:03:40]