《The Randall Knife》歌词

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

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

[00:00:35] When he went off to WWII

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

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

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

[00:00:50] If a better blade was ever made

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

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

[00:01:02] A lawyer by his trade

[00:01:06] And only once did I ever see

[00:01:08] Him misuse the blade

[00:01:15] It almost cut his thumb off

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

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

[00:01:24] And you could not bend the rules

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

[00:01:33] On a Boy Scout jamboree

[00:01:34] And I broke a half an inch off

[00:01:40] Trying to stick it in a tree

[00:01:47] I hid it from him for a while

[00:01:49] But the knife and he were one

[00:01:53] He put it in his bottom drawer

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

[00:01:58] There it slept and there it stayed

[00:02:05] For twenty some odd years

[00:02:09] Sort of like Excalibur

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

[00:02:48] My father died when I was forty

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

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

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

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

[00:03:05] Whiskey pain and beauty

[00:03:07] But he deserved a better tear

[00:03:13] And I was not quite ready

[00:03:23] So we took his ashed out to sea

[00:03:24] And poured 'em off the stern

[00:03:26] And threw the roses in the wake

[00:03:31] Of everything we'd learned

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

[00:03:40] They asked me what I wanted

[00:03:43] Not the lawbooks not the watch

[00:03:45] I need the things he's haunted

[00:03:53] My hand burned for the Randall knife

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

[00:04:01] And I found a tear for my father's life

[00:04:02] And all that it stood for