Randall Knife - Guy Clark

Randall Knife - Guy Clark
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My father had a randall knife
父亲有把兰德尔刀
My mother gave it to him
是母亲赠予的信物
When he went off to wwii
当他远赴二战沙场
To save us all from ruin
为守护我们而战
If you've ever held a randall knife
若你曾握过兰德尔刀
Then you know my father well
便懂我父亲的品格
If a better blade was ever made
若世间还有更锋利的刃
It was probably forged in hell
定是地狱熔炉所铸
My father was a good man
我的父亲是个好人
A lawyer by his trade
以律师为职业
And only once did I ever see
我只见过一次
Him misuse the blade
他失手用错了刀刃
It almost cut his thumb off
差点削去他的拇指
When he took it for a tool
当他把它当作工具
The knife was made for darker things
这把刀本为黑暗而生
Could not bend the rules
不容违背它的法则
He let me take it camping once
他曾让我带着它去露营
On a boy scout jamboree
在那次童子军大会上
I broke a half an inch off
我不慎折断了半寸刀锋
Trying to stick it in a tree
当试图将它钉入树干
I hid it from him for a while
我隐瞒了这件事许久
But the knife and he were one
但刀与他早已灵魂相融
He put it in his bottom drawer
他将它收进底层抽屉
Without a hard word one
未说一句责备的话
There it slept and there it stayed
它静静沉睡 安放多年
For twenty some odd years
历经二十余载光阴
Sort of like excalibur
宛若传说中的王者之剑
Except waiting for a tear
却只为等待一滴泪痕
My father died when I was forty
父亲离世时我年届不惑
And I couldn't find a way to cry
却寻不到泪水的踪迹
Not because I didn't love him
并非因我不曾敬爱他
Not because he didn't try
也非他未尽父职深情
I'd cried for every lesser thing
我曾为琐事轻易落泪
Whiskey pain and beauty
威士忌的灼烧 浮华的美丽
But he deserved a better tear
但他值得更深刻的泪水
And I was not quite ready
而我当时还未准备好告别
So we took his ashed out to sea
我们将他的骨灰撒向大海
Poured 'em off the stern
从船尾缓缓倾泻
And threw the roses in the wake
把玫瑰抛入航迹
Of everything we'd learned
连同所有他教会我们的道理
When we got back to the house
当我们回到家中
They asked me what I wanted
他们问我想要什么
Not the lawbooks not the watch
不是法律书籍 也不是怀表
I need the things he's haunted
我要那些承载他灵魂的物件
My hand burned for the randall knife
我的手渴望触碰那把兰德尔刀
There in the bottom drawer
它就躺在抽屉最底层
And I found a tear for my father's life
我为我父亲的一生落泪
All that it stood for
为这把刀所象征的一切