Elvis Costello God’s Comic song lyrics

I wish you'd known me when I was alive, I was a funny fellow

The crowd would hoot and holler for more

I wore a drunks red nose for applause, oh yes I was a comical priest

With a joke for the flock and a hand up your fleece

Drooling the drink and the lipstick and greasepaint

Down the cardboard front of my dirty dog collar

Now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead

And I'm goin' on to meet my reward

I was scared, I was scared, I was scared, I was scared

He might have never heard God's comic

So there he was on a water-bed, drinking a cola of a mystery brand

Readin' an airport novelette

Listening to Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Requiem"

He said, before it had really begun, "I prefer the one about my son

I've been wading through all this unbelievable junk

And wondering if I should have given the world to the monkeys"

Now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead

And I'm goin' on to meet my reward

I was scared, I was scared, I was scared, I was scared

He might have never heard God's comic

I'm goin' to take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores

They say that travel broadens the mind

Till you can't get your head out of doors

I'm sittin' here on the top of the world, I hang around in the longest night

Until each beast has gone to bed

And then I say, "God bless" and put out the light

While you lie in the dark, afraid to breathe

And you beg and you promise, you bargain and you plead

Sometimes you confuse me with Santa Claus

It's the big white beard I suppose

I'm going up to the pole, where you folks die of cold

I might be gone for a while if you need me

Now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead

You're all going on to meet your reward

Are you scared? Are you scared? Are you scared? Are you scared?

You might have never heard, but God's comic