JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Penyanyi dan penulis lagu asal Inggris, Elvis Costello merilis lagu berjudul “God’s Comic” pada tahun 1989.
Lagu tersebut diciptakan sendiri olehnya dan merupakan album studio ke-12 yang diberi nama Spike.
Album yang dirilis melalui label Warner Bros Records tersebut berhasil menduduki posisi kelima di UK Albums Chart.
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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “God’s Comic” dari Elvis Costello.
[Intro]
Em B7 Em B7 Em F# G A Bb B
[Verse 1]
Em B7 Em B7
I wish you'd known me when I was alive
G C D
I was a funny fellow
Am7 B7 C B7
The crowd would hoot and holler for more
Am7 B7 C B7
I wore a drunk's red nose for applause
G C D
Oh yes I was a comical priest with a
G C D
joke for the flock and a hand up your fleece
Em B7 Em D
Drooling the drink and the lipstick and grease paint
G C D C
Down the cardboard front of my dirty dog collar
[Chorus 1]
G B7 Em B7 Em D
Now I'm dead now I'm dead now I'm dead now I'm dead
G C D
And I'm going on to meet my reward
Em B7 Em D
I was scared I was scared I was scared I was scared
G C D C G B7
He might have never heard of God's Comic
[Verse 2]
Em B7 Em B7
So there he was on a water bed
G C D
drinking a cola of a mystery brand
Am7 B7 C B7
reading an airport novelette
Am7 B7 C B7 Em
listening to Andrew Lloyd Webber's requiem
G C D
He said before it had really begun
G C D
I prefer the one about my son
Em B7 Em D
I've been wading through all this unbelievable junk
G C D C
and wondering if i should have given the world to the monkeys.
[Ulangi Chorus 1]
[Bridge 1]
C D
I'm gonna take a little trip
C D
down paradise's endless shores
G
they say that travel broadens the mind
B7 E
till you can't get you head out of doors
[Intro 1]
Em B7 Em B7 Em F# G A Bb B
[Verse 3]
Em B7 Em B7
Im sitting here on the top of the world
G C D
I hang around in the longest night
Am7 B7 C B7
Until each beast has gone to bead
Am7 B7 C B7 Em
and then i say god bless and put out the light
(rest 6 beats (snare))
G C D
While you lie in the dark afraid to breathe
G C D
and you beg and you promise and you bargain and you plead
G C D
sometimes you confuse me with Santa Claus
G C D
it's the big white beard i suppose
Em B7 Em D
im going up to the pole where you folks die of cold
G C D C
i might be gone for a while if you need me
[Ulangi Chorus 1]
[Outro]
(repeat 6x)
Em B7 Em B7 Em B7 Em C