Gods Comic Elvis Costello (D.MacManus) If this song is about a known comedian please drop me a line with if possible any reference.. (a wager is afoot U C) 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 you fleece Drooling the drink and the lipstick and grease paint Down the cardboard front of my dirty dog collar chorus: now im dead now im dead now im dead now im dead And im going on to meet my reward I was scared I was scared I was scared I was scared (*2nd time bridge*) He might never heard Gods Comic So there he was on a water bed drinking a cola of a mystery brand reading an airport novellette listeing to andrew loydd webbers requiem He said before it had really begun I prefer the one about my son ive been wading through all this unbielevable junk and wondering if i should have given it all to the monkeys. Oops bridge Im goind to take a little trip down paradises endless shores the say that travel braodens the mind till you cant get you head out of doors * Im sitting here on the top of the world I hang around in the longest night Until each beast has gone to bead and then i say god bless and turn out the light While you lie in the dark afraid to breathe and you beg and you promise and you bargain and you plead sometimes you confuse me with santa claus its the big white beard i suppose im going up to the pole where you folks die of cold i might be gone for a while if you need me