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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 drunks red nose for applause

Oh yes I was a comical priest With a

joke for the flock and a hand up you fleece

Drooling the drink and the lipstick and grease paint

Down the cardboard front of my dirty dog collar

Chorus

now im dead now im dead now im dead now im dead

And im going on to meet my reward

I was scared I was scared I was scared I was scared

He might never heard Gods Comic

So there he was on a water bed

drinking a cola of a mystery brand

reading an airport novellette

listeing to andrew loydd webbers requiem

He said before it had really begun

I prefer the one about my son

ive been wading through all this unbielevable junk

and wondering if i should have given it all to the monkeys.

Oops bridge

Im goind to take a little trip

down paradises endless shores

the say that travel braodens the mind

till you cant get you head out of doors

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 turn 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

its 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