《The Randall Knife (Live)》歌词

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

[00:00:28] 以下歌词翻译由微信翻译提供

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

[00:00:31] 我父亲有一把兰道尔的匕首

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

[00:00:34] 我妈妈给他的

[00:00:34] When he went off to wowo to

[00:00:37] 当他走向远方

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

[00:00:43] 把我们从废墟中拯救出来

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

[00:00:46] 如果你拿过一把兰道尔的匕首

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

[00:00:49] 那你很了解我的父亲

[00:00:49] If a better blade was ever made

[00:00:52] 如果世上还有更好的刀刃

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

[00:00:59] 可能是在地狱里铸造的

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

[00:01:01] 我的父亲是个好人

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

[00:01:05] 律师的职业

[00:01:05] Only once did I ever see

[00:01:07] 我只见过一次

[00:01:07] Him misuse the blade

[00:01:14] 他滥用利刃

[00:01:14] It almost cut his thumb off

[00:01:17] 差点把他的拇指砍下来

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

[00:01:21] 当他把它当做工具

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

[00:01:23] 这把刀是为黑暗而生的

[00:01:23] And you could not bend the rules

[00:01:30] 你不能违背规则

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

[00:01:33] 他让我带着它去野营一次

[00:01:33] On a boy scout jamboree

[00:01:37] 参加童子军狂欢盛会

[00:01:37] And I broke a half an inch off

[00:01:39] 我稍微松了一口气

[00:01:39] Trying to stick it in a tree

[00:01:45] 想要把它挂在树上

[00:01:45] I hid it from him for a while

[00:01:48] 我对他隐瞒了一段时间

[00:01:48] But the knife and he were one

[00:01:52] 但这把刀和他是一体的

[00:01:52] He put it in his bottom drawer

[00:01:54] 他把它放在最下面的抽屉里

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

[00:02:01] 没有一句硬话

[00:02:01] There it slept and there it stayed

[00:02:04] 在那里酣然入睡在那里停留

[00:02:04] For twenty some odd years

[00:02:08] 二十几年

[00:02:08] Sort of like Excalibur

[00:02:11] 就像王者之剑

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

[00:02:46] 除了等待一滴泪

[00:02:46] My father died when I was forty

[00:02:49] 我四十岁的时候父亲去世了

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

[00:02:52] 我找不到哭泣的办法

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

[00:02:56] 不是因为我不爱他

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

[00:03:02] 不是因为他没有尝试过

[00:03:02] I'd cried for every lesser thing

[00:03:05] 我为微不足道的事情伤心落泪

[00:03:05] Whiskey pain and beauty

[00:03:09] 威士忌带来痛苦与美丽

[00:03:09] But he deserved a better tear

[00:03:12] 但他值得拥有更好的泪水

[00:03:12] And I was not quite ready

[00:03:20] 我还没有准备好

[00:03:20] So we took his ashed out to sea

[00:03:23] 所以我们带着他的骨灰出海

[00:03:23] And poured em off the stern

[00:03:27] 把它们从船梢倾倒下来

[00:03:27] And threw the roses in the wake

[00:03:30] 将玫瑰撒在身后

[00:03:30] Of everything we'd learned

[00:03:36] 我们学到的一切

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

[00:03:39] 当我们回到家

[00:03:39] They asked me what I wanted

[00:03:43] 他们问我想要什么

[00:03:43] Not the law books not the watch

[00:03:47] 不是法律书籍不是手表

[00:03:47] I need the things he's haunted

[00:03:51] 我需要他念念不忘的东西

[00:03:51] My hand burned for the Randall knife

[00:03:55] 我的手为那把兰道尔的匕首而燃烧

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

[00:03:59] 在最底下的抽屉里

[00:03:59] And I found a tear for my father's life

[00:04:02] 我为我父亲的生命流下了眼泪

[00:04:02] All that it stood for

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