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 more 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.