Gods Comic

Elvis Costello

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[Intro 1]   1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + e|0-------2-------|0-------2-------|----------------|----------------| B|0-------0-------|0-------0-------|----------------|----------------| G|0-------2-------|0-------2-------|----------------|----------------| D|2-------1-------|2-------1-------|----------------|----------------| A|2-------2-------|2-------2-------|----------------|0-------1---2---| E|0---------------|----------------|0-----2-3-----4-|----------------| [Verses]   1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +   e|3---------------| B|0---------------| G|0---------------| D|0-----------0---| A|2---------------| E|3---2---0-------| (This run is played during most G chords) [Verse 2]   1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +   e|----------------| B|----------------| G|----------------| D|----------------| A|----------------| E|0-0-2---3---0---| (Run after the word "requiem") [Bridge]   1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +   e|----------------| B|----------------| G|----------------| D|----------------| A|------------0---| E|----------3---3-| (played before the C chord) [Outro]   1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +   e|----------------| B|1-------1-------| G|0-------2-------| D|2-------2-------| A|3---2---0-------| E|------------3---| (Played in the C chord measure) [Intro] [Verse 1] 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 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 grease paint Down the cardboard front of my dirty dog collar [Chorus 1]    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 of God’s Comic         [Verse 2] 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 this unbelievable junk and wondering if i should have given the world to the monkeys. [Chorus 2]    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 of God’s Comic       [Bridge 1] I’m gonna take a little trip down paradise’s endless shores they say that travel broadens the mind till you can’t get you head out of doors [Intro 1] [Verse 3]   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 put out the light (rest 6 beats (snare)) 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 im going up to the pole where you folks die of cold   i might be gone for a while if you need me [Chorus 3]    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 of God’s Comic [Outro] (repeat 6 times)

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La chanson évoque les réflexions d'un comédien décédé, qui se souvient de sa vie antérieure pleine d'humour et de plaisanteries destinées à son auditoire. Il aborde avec ironie la peur de la mort et l'incertitude concernant l'au-delà, tout en se demandant si son audience a véritablement entendu parler de lui après son départ. Rapidement, il compare les attentes de la vie après la mort à une sorte de voyage vers un paradis incertain, où il se trouve en haut du monde, loin des peurs terrestres. L'œuvre semble jouer sur le contraste entre la légèreté comique de sa vie de vivant et les questionnements plus profonds sur la spiritualité et l'existence après la mort. Ce mélange de gravité et d'humour met en lumière nos propres appréhensions face à l’inconnu divin.