《The Randall Knife(LP版)》歌词

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:01:12] Him misuse the blade

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:02:18] Sort of like Excalibur

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:03:17] Whiskey pain and beauty

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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