Lirik dan Chord Lagu God’s Comic - Elvis Costello

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.

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