《Randall Knife》歌词

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:01:03] Him misuse the blade

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:01:57] Sort of like excalibur

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:02:50] Whiskey pain and beauty

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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