The Collector
I was going to tell the story of love, gathered ideas of what it was. For some it's a feeling, for
others it's a plan. What kind of love do you think I am? Collecting love stories like a
musical scholar "“ W. McNeil or A.P. Carter "“ in the mountains, in the plains, there is
romance, there is pain"¦ some of us find they are one and the same. A song has its roots,
and a love does too "“ where it comes from and what it goes through "“ when the language
changes and the melody holds, what will it sound like when we're old? The heart has its
ways of telling the truth "“ sometimes it has a wall to get through "“ not every love is meant to
hold on; I've seen it come, I've felt it gone. In any one life, there is more than one love "“ a
friend, a partner, or the ties of blood "“ if anyone asks you who wrote this song, tell 'em it
was I and it's almost done.