Randall Knife-Steve Earle & Townes Van Zandt & Guy Clark

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以下歌词翻译由微信翻译提供 [00:26.47]My father had a Randall knife
我父亲有一把兰道尔的匕首 [00:28.20] [00:29.70]My mother gave it to him
我妈妈给他的 [00:30.99] [00:32.68]When he went off to World War II
当他去参加第二次世界大战时 [00:34.61] [00:35.53]To save us all from ruin
把我们从废墟中拯救出来 [00:37.24] [00:40.91]Now if you've ever held a Randall knife
如果你拿过一把兰道尔的匕首 [00:42.73] [00:44.18]You know my father well
你很了解我的父亲 [00:45.36] [00:47.48]And if a better blade was ever made
如果世上有更好的刀刃 [00:49.40] [00:50.35]It was probably forged in hell
可能是在地狱里铸造的 [00:51.94] [00:56.23]My father was a good man
我的父亲是个好人 [00:57.72] [00:59.18]He was a lawyer by his trade
他的职业是律师 [01:00.95] [01:02.54]And only once did I ever see
我只见过一次 [01:04.74]Him misuse the blade
他滥用利刃 [01:05.76] [01:10.21]Well it almost cut his thumb off
差点砍掉他的拇指 [01:11.90] [01:13.58]When he took it for a tool
当他把它当做工具 [01:15.13] [01:16.61]Now the knife was made for darker things
如今这把刀是为黑暗而生的 [01:18.70] [01:20.25]And you could not bend the rules
你不能违背规则 [01:21.80] [01:27.21]Well he let me take it camping once
他让我带着它去露营一次 [01:29.22] [01:30.20]On a Boy Scout jamboree
参加一场童子军狂欢 [01:31.84] [01:33.60]And I broke a half an inch off
我稍微松了一口气 [01:35.39] [01:36.16]Trying to stick it in a tree
想要把它挂在树上 [01:37.77] [01:41.79]Well I hid it from him for a while
我对他隐瞒了一段时间 [01:43.60] [01:44.82]But the knife and he were one
但这把刀和他是一体的 [01:46.51] [01:48.17]And he put it in his bottom drawer
他把它放在最下面的抽屉里 [01:50.06] [01:51.10]Without a hard word one
没有一句硬话 [01:53.02] [01:56.76]There it slept and there it stayed
在那里酣然入睡在那里停留 [01:59.12] [01:59.93]For twenty some odd years
二十几年 [02:01.24] [02:03.26]Sort of like Excalibur
就像王者之剑 [02:04.58] [02:05.91]Except waiting for a tear
除了等待一滴泪 [02:07.41] [02:38.12]My father died when I was forty
我四十岁的时候父亲去世了 [02:40.14] [02:40.94]And I couldn't find a way to cry
我找不到哭泣的办法 [02:42.68] [02:44.53]Not because I didn't love him
不是因为我不爱他 [02:46.20] [02:47.28]Not because he didn't try
不是因为他没有尝试过 [02:48.67] [02:52.68]Well I'd cried for every lesser thing
我为微不足道的事情伤心落泪 [02:54.57] [02:55.99]Whiskey pain and beauty
威士忌带来痛苦与美丽 [02:58.06] [02:59.58]But he deserved a better tear
但他值得拥有更好的泪水 [03:01.13] [03:02.12]And I was not quite ready
我还没有准备好 [03:04.29] [03:10.03]So we took his ashes out to sea
所以我们把他的骨灰撒向大海 [03:11.88] [03:13.06]And poured `em off the stern
把它们从船上倒下来 [03:14.58] [03:16.19]And then threw the roses in the wake
然后把玫瑰扔在身后 [03:18.13] [03:19.06]Of everything we'd learned
我们学到的一切 [03:20.45] [03:24.77]And when we got back to the house
当我们回到家 [03:26.51] [03:27.81]Well they asked me what I wanted
他们问我想要什么 [03:29.34] [03:31.29]Not the law books not the watch
不是法律书籍不是手表 [03:33.79] [03:34.34]Oh I need the things he's haunted
我需要他念念不忘的东西 [03:35.81] [03:38.62]Oh my hand burned for the Randall knife
为了那把兰道尔的匕首我付出了惨痛的代价 [03:41.37] [03:42.44]There in the bottom drawer
在最底下的抽屉里 [03:43.97] [03:46.11]And I found a tear for my father's life
我为我父亲的生命流下了眼泪 [03:48.33] [03:49.75]And all that it stood for
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