letra de the randall knife - steve earle
[verse 1]
my father had a randall knife
my mother gave it to him
when he went off to world war ii
to save us all from ruin
if you’ve ever held a randall knife
you know my father well
if a better blade was ever made
it was probably forged in h-ll
[verse 2]
my father was a good man
a lawyer by his trade
only once did i ever see him
misuse the blade
it almost cut his thumb off
when he took it for a tool
ah, the knife was made for darker things
you could not bend the rules
[verse 3]
he let me take it camping once
on a boy scout jamboree
and i broke a half-an-inch off
tryin’ to stick it in a tree
i hid it from him for a while
but the knife and he were one
and he just put it in his bottom drawer
without a hard word one
there it slept and there it stayed
for twenty some-odd years
sort of like excalibur
except waiting for a tear
[verse 4]
now my father died when i was forty
and i couldn’t find a way to cry
not because i didn’t love him
not because i didn’t try
i’d cried for every lesser thing:
whiskey, pain, and beauty
but he deserved a better tear
i was not quite ready
[verse 5]
so we took his ashes out to sea
and poured ’em off the stern
and then threw the roses in the wave
of everything we’d learned
and when we got back to the house
and they asked me what i wanted
not the law books, not the watch
i need the things he’s haunted
aw, my hand burned for the randall knife
there in the bottom drawer
and i found a tear for my father’s life
and everything he stood for
letras aleatórias
- атрава atrava › letra de атрава - без тебя (without you) - атрава (atrava)
- roy kim › letra de 결국엔 (at last) - roy kim
- 清野由美 yumi seino › letra de you & i - 清野由美 (yumi seino)
- nathanael hoyt › letra de strawberry skies - nathanael hoyt
- nudda › letra de farfalla - nudda
- daisy the great › letra de routine - daisy the great
- michael warren › letra de what's country to you - michael warren
- goddess fiji › letra de goddess : is it okay if i pick up hoes in a dungeon? - goddess fiji
- bente › letra de als ik met de wind kon dansen - bente
- drowning in goldfish › letra de no fun ln, tx - drowning in goldfish