Howard Christman Is Older - The Collectors

作词：Lawrence/vickers

作曲：Lawrence/vickers

Once in every hundred years

They appear

Why they come

And where they're

From isn't clear

But they're here

For our world

He was reading and writing

Before he was three

By the time he was nine

He'd earned a degree

And at the age of thirteen

He discovered a way

He could change the molecular

Structure of clay

He could change it

From clay into silver or gold

Don't forget he was yet

Only thirteen years old

On the day

Of his seventeenth birthday

He made

A machine that would show

Every film of that day

Then he worked night

And day on a process that led

To a way of reviving

A man who was dead

He couldn't understand

All the people making such a fuzz

About what he considered

Such a useless thing

Everyone says he's a genius now

What I'm going to say

Should stay between us

Thus Howard Christman's older

And lately I've noticed

That he's starting to slow down

He was nineteen

When he said that he would create

A machine that would mean

There would be no more hate

It would take him a week

Or a month maybe before

But he promised

That he thought

There'll be no more war

So they waited a week

Then a month then a year

They were anxiously waiting

For him to appear

Everyone says he's a genius now

What I'm going to say

Should stay between us

Thus Howard Christman's older

And nobody knows it

But Howard Christman's gone