I wish you'd known me when I was alive
I was a funny feller
The crowd would hoot and holler for more
I wore a drunk's 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
And I'm going 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
Reading 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 of 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 going 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 gonna take a little trip
down paradise's endless shores
they say that travel broadens the mind
'til you can't get your head out of doors.
I'm sitting 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 
and 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
and 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 ...
--- God's comic.
