Howard Christman's Older-Collectors

[ti:Howard Christman's Older (LP版)] [ar:the collectors] [al:The Collectors] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Howard Christman's Older (LP版) - Collectors [00:02.86]Once in every hundred years [00:05.52]They appear [00:07.82] [00:09.07]Why they come [00:10.40]And where they're [00:12.22]From isn't clear [00:16.22] [00:17.34]But they're here [00:19.75]For our world [00:24.17] [00:40.68]He was reading and writing [00:43.83]Before he was three [00:46.54]By the time he was nine [00:49.60]He'd earned a degree [00:52.39] [00:56.89]And at the age of thirteen [00:59.58]He discovered a way [01:02.79]He could change the molecular [01:06.58]Structure of clay [01:09.25] [01:14.00]He could change it [01:15.54]From clay into silver or gold [01:19.84]Don't forget he was yet [01:22.61]Only thirteen years old [01:26.38] [01:28.76]On the day [01:29.67]Of his seventeenth birthday [01:33.15]He made [01:34.30]A machine that would show [01:37.26]Every film of that day [01:40.90] [01:43.18]Then he worked night [01:44.86]And day on a process that led [01:48.88]To a way of reviving [01:52.13]A man who was dead [01:57.16] [01:59.32]He couldn't understand [02:03.32] [02:03.92]All the people making such a fuzz [02:06.87]About what he considered [02:09.18]Such a useless thing [02:13.64] [02:15.47]Everyone says he's a genius now [02:21.97]What I'm going to say [02:26.05]Should stay between us [02:29.44] [02:30.50]Thus Howard Christman's older [02:36.26]And lately I've noticed [02:38.80]That he's starting to slow down [02:47.01] [02:49.47]He was nineteen [02:51.63]When he said that he would create [02:55.62]A machine that would mean [02:58.55]There would be no more hate [03:02.24] [03:04.75]It would take him a week [03:07.29]Or a month maybe before [03:10.30]But he promised [03:11.97]That he thought [03:13.60]There'll be no more war [03:18.52] [03:53.88]So they waited a week [03:57.03]Then a month then a year [04:00.04]They were anxiously waiting [04:03.44]For him to appear [04:08.46] [04:12.18]Everyone says he's a genius now [04:18.47]What I'm going to say [04:22.49]Should stay between us [04:26.85]Thus Howard Christman's older [04:32.78]And nobody knows it [04:34.88]But Howard Christman's gone