The Collector by Steve Kilbey Lyrics
(So divine, so divine)
I take the things from their leather cases
And I arrange them in their special places
I collected people like you might collect flowers
But they only lived for a couple of hours
The famous flickered in these flames
And hear the waiting and played their games
Only a mad dog would turn on the world
Only a mad dog would turn on the world
I watched the morning in the evening
I saw the clouds as thеy were leaving
Collеcted people as you might collect stamps
Princes, killers, heroes, tramps
The lonely locked here in this room
With scant regard and no perfume
Only a mad dog would turn on the world
Only a mad dog would turn on the world (left for you)
I help the poor to find the boats
In avenues and garden groves
I collected people like you might collect coins
I quenched their hearts and burned their loins
This is where the general slept
Near the place their soldiers wept
Only a mad dog would turn on the world
Only a mad dog would turn on the world
Only a mad dog would turn on the world
Only a mad dog would turn on the world
Only a mad dog would turn on the world
Only a mad dog would turn on the world
Only a mad dog would turn on the world
Only a mad...
[Part of another old Kilbey song, possibly recorded over on the original tape, plays at the end]
It's so, so far fetched
It's just a fading dream I kept
It's just a song I thought I heard
But when I listen very hard
I must've been asleep or somewhere else
The slippery fish that swims away
Nibble corners of my mind...
I take the things from their leather cases
And I arrange them in their special places
I collected people like you might collect flowers
But they only lived for a couple of hours
The famous flickered in these flames
And hear the waiting and played their games
Only a mad dog would turn on the world
Only a mad dog would turn on the world
I watched the morning in the evening
I saw the clouds as thеy were leaving
Collеcted people as you might collect stamps
Princes, killers, heroes, tramps
The lonely locked here in this room
With scant regard and no perfume
Only a mad dog would turn on the world
Only a mad dog would turn on the world (left for you)
I help the poor to find the boats
In avenues and garden groves
I collected people like you might collect coins
I quenched their hearts and burned their loins
This is where the general slept
Near the place their soldiers wept
Only a mad dog would turn on the world
Only a mad dog would turn on the world
Only a mad dog would turn on the world
Only a mad dog would turn on the world
Only a mad dog would turn on the world
Only a mad dog would turn on the world
Only a mad dog would turn on the world
Only a mad...
[Part of another old Kilbey song, possibly recorded over on the original tape, plays at the end]
It's so, so far fetched
It's just a fading dream I kept
It's just a song I thought I heard
But when I listen very hard
I must've been asleep or somewhere else
The slippery fish that swims away
Nibble corners of my mind...