I'm just a sucker for punishment...Elvis Costello recorded The Comedians on his 1984 album "Goodbye Cruel World". Several years later, when he was asked to contribute a song for Roy Orbison's "Mystery Girl" album, he rewrote it - kept the chorus, wrote a completely new set of verses, and changed the arrangement to something like "It's Over" or "In Dreams". It became a simple story of someone stuck on a ferris wheel, watching his girl run off with the fairground operator. What a heartbreaker.
Once again, I can't hope to emulate the Big O's amazing range. Having already gone up, up, and up, he puts in a sort of upward key change for the last chorus, but no, I'll stay just where I am, thanks very much.