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[ti:The Randall Knife (LP Version)]
[ar:Guy Clark]
[al:Better Days]
[00:00.00]The Randall Knife (LP版) - Guy Clark
[00:15.29]My father had a randall knife
[00:18.83]My mother gave it to him
[00:21.74]When he went off to WWII
[00:25.19]To save us all from ruin
[00:28.77]If you've ever held a Randall knife
[00:32.14]Then you know my father well
[00:35.41]If a better blade was ever made
[00:38.59]It was probably forged in hell
[00:44.06]My father was a good man
[00:47.17]He was a lawyer by his trade
[00:50.91]And only once did I ever see
[00:54.01]Him misuse the blade
[00:57.49]Well it almost cut his thumb off
[01:01.02]When he took it for a tool
[01:04.48]The knife was made for darker things
[01:07.47]And you could not bend the rules
[01:12.97]He let me take it camping once
[01:16.56]On a Boy Scout jamboree
[01:19.67]And I broke a half an inch off
[01:22.49]Trying to stick it in a tree
[01:26.58]I hid it from him for a while
[01:30.14]But the knife and he were one
[01:33.78]He put it in his bottom drawer
[01:36.91]Without a hard word one
[01:42.09]There it slept and there it stayed
[01:45.29]For twenty some odd years
[01:49.09]Sort of like Excalibur
[01:51.74]Except waiting for a tear
[02:09.72]My father died when I was forty
[02:12.99]And I couldn't find a way to cry
[02:16.50]Not because I didn't love him
[02:19.72]Not because he didn't try
[02:22.80]I'd cried for every lesser thing
[02:26.62]Whiskey  pain and beauty
[02:30.11]But he deserved a better tear
[02:33.23]And I was not quite ready
[02:38.59]So we took his ashed out to sea
[02:42.16]And poured them off the stern
[02:45.42]And threw the roses in the wake
[02:48.83]Of everything we'd learned
[02:52.47]When we got back to the house
[02:55.68]They asked me what I wanted
[02:59.15]Not the lawbooks not the watch
[03:01.91]I need the things he's haunted
[03:06.90]My hand burned for the Randall knife
[03:11.39]There in the bottom drawer
[03:14.88]And I found a tear for my father's life
[03:18.51]All that it stood for