\nGod’s Comic
\n————–<\/b><\/p>\n
I wish you’d known me when I was alive
\nI was a funny feller
\nThe crowd would hoot and holler for more
\nI wore a drunk’s red nose for applause
\nOh yes, I was a comical priest
\n"With a joke for the flock and a hand up your fleece"
\nDrooling the drink and the lipstick and greasepaint
\nDown the cardboard front of my dirty dog-collar <\/p>\n
CHORUS:<\/b>
\nNow I’m dead, now I’m dead, now I’m dead, now I’m dead
\nAnd I’m going on to meet my reward
\nI was scared, I was scared, I was scared, I was scared
\nHe might of never heard God’s Comic <\/p>\n
So there he was on a water-bed
\nDrinking a cola of a mystery brand
\nReading an airport novelette
\nListening to Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s "Requiem"
\nHe said, before it had really begun
\n"I prefer the one about my son"
\n"I’ve been wading through all this unbelievable junk and"
\n"Wondering if I should have given the world to the monkeys"<\/p>\n
CHORUS:<\/b>
\nNow I’m dead, now I’m dead, now I’m dead, now I’m dead
\nAnd I’m going on to meet my reward
\nI was scared, I was scared, I was scared, I was scared
\nHe might of never heard God’s Comic <\/p>\n
I’m going to take a little trip
\nDown Paradise’s endless shores
\nThey say that travel broadens the mind
\n‘Til you can’t get your head out of doors <\/p>\n
I’m sitting here on the top of the world,
\nI hang around in the longest night
\nUntil each beast has gone to bed
\nAnd then I say "God bless" and put out the light…<\/p>\n
…While you lie in the dark, afraid to breathe
\nAnd you beg and you promise and you bargain and you plead
\nSometimes you confuse me with Santa Claus
\nIt’s the big white beard I suppose
\nI’m going up to the pole, where you folks die of cold
\nI might be gone for a while if you need me <\/p>\n
CHORUS:<\/b>
\nNow I’m dead, now I’m dead, now I’m dead, now I’m dead
\nAnd you’re all going on to meet your reward
\nAre you scared, are you scared, are you scared, are you scared?
\nYou might have never heard, but God’s comic\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Get, or "get" the album and give the rest a listen. I know there are at least a handful of you who will really enjoy it as much as I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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