《The Randall Knife(LP版)》歌词

[00:00:00] The Randall Knife (兰德尔刀) (LP版) - Guy Clark

[00:00:15] My father had a randall knife

[00:00:18] My mother gave it to him

[00:00:21] When he went off to WWII

[00:00:25] To save us all from ruin

[00:00:28] If you've ever held a Randall knife

[00:00:32] Then you know my father well

[00:00:35] If a better blade was ever made

[00:00:38] It was probably forged in hell

[00:00:44] My father was a good man

[00:00:47] He was a lawyer by his trade

[00:00:50] And only once did I ever see

[00:00:54] Him misuse the blade

[00:00:57] Well it almost cut his thumb off

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

[00:01:04] The knife was made for darker things

[00:01:07] And you could not bend the rules

[00:01:12] He let me take it camping once

[00:01:16] On a Boy Scout jamboree

[00:01:19] And I broke a half an inch off

[00:01:22] Trying to stick it in a tree

[00:01:26] I hid it from him for a while

[00:01:30] But the knife and he were one

[00:01:33] He put it in his bottom drawer

[00:01:36] Without a hard word one

[00:01:42] There it slept and there it stayed

[00:01:45] For twenty some odd years

[00:01:49] Sort of like Excalibur

[00:01:51] Except waiting for a tear

[00:02:09] My father died when I was forty

[00:02:12] And I couldn't find a way to cry

[00:02:16] Not because I didn't love him

[00:02:19] Not because he didn't try

[00:02:22] I'd cried for every lesser thing

[00:02:26] Whiskey pain and beauty

[00:02:30] But he deserved a better tear

[00:02:33] And I was not quite ready

[00:02:38] So we took his ashed out to sea

[00:02:42] And poured them off the stern

[00:02:45] And threw the roses in the wake

[00:02:48] Of everything we'd learned

[00:02:52] When we got back to the house

[00:02:55] They asked me what I wanted

[00:02:59] Not the lawbooks not the watch

[00:03:01] I need the things he's haunted

[00:03:06] My hand burned for the Randall knife

[00:03:11] There in the bottom drawer

[00:03:14] And I found a tear for my father's life

[00:03:18] All that it stood for