The Randall Knife (LP版)-Guy Clark

[ti:The Randall Knife] [ar:Guy Clark] [al:Dublin Blues] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Randall Knife (兰德尔刀) (LP版) - Guy Clark [00:30.08]My father had a Randall knife [00:31.95] [00:33.53]My mother gave it to him [00:35.13] [00:37.12]When he went off to WWII [00:39.37] [00:40.50]To save us all from ruin [00:42.53] [00:46.31]If you've ever held a Randall knife [00:48.44] [00:49.75]Then you know my father well [00:51.21] [00:53.52]If a better blade was ever made [00:55.41] [00:56.19]It was probably forged in hell [00:57.99] [01:03.29]My father was a good man [01:04.79] [01:06.71]A lawyer by his trade [01:08.68] [01:10.41]And only once did I ever see [01:12.82]Him misuse the blade [01:14.59] [01:18.73]It almost cut his thumb off [01:21.45] [01:23.45]When he took it for a tool [01:25.25] [01:27.36]The knife was made for darker things [01:29.93] [01:31.15]And you could not bend the rules [01:33.24] [01:36.91]He let me take it camping once [01:38.87] [01:40.56]On a Boy Scout jamboree [01:42.62] [01:44.41]And I broke a half an inch off [01:47.07]Trying to stick it in a tree [01:48.77] [01:53.51]I hid it from him for a while [01:55.37] [01:57.22]But the knife and he were one [01:58.93] [02:01.37]He put it in his bottom drawer [02:03.34] [02:04.11]Without a hard word one [02:06.37] [02:10.56]There it slept and there it stayed [02:12.94] [02:14.10]For twenty some odd years [02:16.15] [02:18.43]Sort of like Excalibur [02:19.93] [02:21.72]Except waiting for a tear [02:23.52] [02:57.46]My father died when I was forty [02:59.58] [03:00.88]And I couldn't find a way to cry [03:02.89] [03:04.97]Not because I didn't love him [03:06.69] [03:08.08]Not because he didn't try [03:09.63] [03:13.16]I'd cried for every lesser thing [03:15.36] [03:17.57]Whiskey pain and beauty [03:19.94] [03:22.06]But he deserved a better tear [03:24.04] [03:24.64]And I was not quite ready [03:27.40] [03:31.79]So we took his ashed out to sea [03:33.75] [03:35.60]And poured 'em off the stern [03:37.17] [03:39.44]And threw the roses in the wake [03:41.56] [03:42.20]Of everything we'd learned [03:44.03] [03:48.86]When we got back to the house [03:50.60] [03:52.39]They asked me what I wanted [03:53.96] [03:56.54]Not the lawbooks not the watch [03:58.83] [03:59.63]I need the things he's haunted [04:01.44] [04:04.50]My hand burned for the Randall knife [04:07.90] [04:09.24]There in the bottom drawer [04:11.16] [04:13.45]And I found a tear for my father's life [04:15.89] [04:16.88]And all that it stood for