My father had a Randall knife 我的父亲有兰德尔刀

My mother gave it to him 我的母亲给了他

When he went off to WWII 当他去了二战

To save us all from ruin 为了节省大家从废墟中

If you've ever held a Randall knife 如果你曾经举行了兰德尔刀

Then you know my father well 那么你知道我的父亲以及

If a better blade was ever made 如果有更好的刀片是有史以来

It was probably forged in hell 它可能是伪造的在地狱

   

My father was a good man 我的父亲是个好人

A lawyer by his trade 律师通过他的贸易

And only once did I ever see 只有一次我有没有看到

Him misuse the blade 他误用刀片

It almost cut his thumb off 这几乎断绝了他的拇指断

When he took it for a tool 当他把它的工具

The knife was made for darker things 刀是为较深的事情

And you could not bend the rules 而且你不能通融

   

He let me take it camping once 他让我把它一次露营

On a Boy Scout jamboree 在童子军大露营

And I broke a half an inch off 而我打破了一个半英寸关闭

Trying to stick it in a tree 试图把它贴在树上

I hid it from him for a while 我躲在这从他那里一段时间

But the knife and he were one 不过，刀，他是1

He put it in his bottom drawer 他把它放在自己的抽屉底板

Without a hard word one 如果没有一个硬字1

   

There it slept and there it stayed 在那里，它睡觉，那里住

For twenty some odd years 二十一些多年

Sort of like Excalibur 有点像神剑

Except waiting for a tear 除了等待泪

   

My father died when I was forty 我的父亲去世时，我40

And I couldn't find a way to cry 我无法找到一个方法来哭

Not because I didn't love him 不是因为我不爱他

Not because he didn't try 不是因为他没有尝试

I'd cried for every lesser thing 我哭了，每小东西

Whiskey, pain and beauty 威士忌，痛并美丽

But he deserved a better tear 但他应得一个更好的泪

And I was not quite ready 我还没准备好

   

So we took his ashed out to sea 因此，我们把他的灰化出海

And poured 'em off the stern 而倒时间过船尾

And threw the roses in the wake 撒玫瑰在后

Of everything we'd learned 一切我们已经学会

When we got back to the house 当我们回到家里

They asked me what I wanted 他们问我我想要的东西

Not the lawbooks not the watch 不是法典，没有手表

I need the things he's haunted 我需要他困扰的事情

   

My hand burned for the Randall knife 我的手烧的兰德尔刀

There in the bottom drawer 有在底部的抽屉

And I found a tear for my father's life 而且我发现一滴眼泪我父亲的一生

And all that it stood for 和所有它主张