LYRICS by TIM RICE
\nMUSIC by ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
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Cf<\/em>.\u00a0 The Music of Jesus Christ Superstar (video)<\/p>\n _____________________<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1) OVERTURE (3:59) HOSNNA (2:07) I) THE LAST SUPPER (7:10) 1) JUDAS\u2019 DEATH (4:17) OVERTURE<\/p>\n HEAVEN ON THEIR MINDS<\/p>\n JUDAS Listen Jesus I don\u2019t like what I see I remember when this old thing began Nazareth your famous son should have stayed a great unknown Listen Jesus do you care for your race? Listen Jesus to the warning I give JESUS APOSTLES JESUS APOSTLES JESUS APOSTLES MARY MAGDALENE JESUS APOSTLES WHAT\u2019S THE BUZZ \/ STRANGE THING MYSTIFYING<\/p>\n JUDAS<\/p>\n It seems to me a strange thing mystifying ALL (Save Judas) JESUS EVERYTHING\u2019 S ALRIGHT<\/p>\n MARY MAGDALENE APOSTLES WOMEN MARY MAGDALENE APOSTLES WOMEN JUDAS APOSTLES WOMEN JESUS MARY MAGDALENE ALL THIS JESUS MUST DIE<\/p>\n Jerusalem, Sunday<\/p>\n PRIEST I CAIAPHAS MOB outside ANNAS MOB outside ALL PRIEST 2 PRIEST 3 ALL MOB outside ALL PRIEST 2 PRIEST 3 CAIAPHAS ANNAS CATAPHAS ANNAS PRIEST 3 CAIAPHAS CAIPHAS ALL PRIEST 3 ANNAS PRIEST 5 CAIAPHAS ALL CAIAPHAS ALL CROWD CAIAPHAS CROWD JESUS CROWD (with JESUS) SIMON ZEALOTES SIMON ZEALOTES SIMON ZEALOTES POOR JERUSALEM<\/p>\n JESUS PILATE\u2019S DREAM<\/p>\n Pontius Pilate\u2019s house, Monday<\/p>\n PIIATE The Temple<\/p>\n MONEYLENDERS AND MERCHANTS JESUS CROWD JESUS <\/p>\n EVERYTHING\u2019 S ALRIGHT<\/p>\n MARY MAGDALENE JESUS I DON\u2019T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM<\/p>\n MARY MAGDALENE <\/p>\n DAMNED FOR ALL TIME<\/p>\n Tuesday<\/p>\n JUDAS ANNAS CAIAPHAS ANNAS CAIAPHAS ANNAS CAIAPHAS <\/p>\n BLOOD MONEY<\/p>\n JUDAS CAIAPHA S JUDAS ANNAS CAIAPHAS JUDAS THE LAST SUPPER<\/p>\n Thursday night. The Last Supper<\/p>\n APOSTLES JESUS APOSTLES JUDAS J ESUS JUDAS JE SUS JUDAS JESUS JUDAS JESUS JUDAS JESUS APOSTLES JUDAS JESUS JUDAS JESUS GETHSEMANE (I only want to say)<\/p>\n In the garden of Gethsemane<\/p>\n JESUS <\/p>\n THE ARREST<\/p>\n JUDAS JESUS PETER PETER AND APOSTLES JESUS CROWD Now we have him! Now we have got him!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n CAIAPHAS JESUS<\/p>\n That\u2019s what you say — say that I am<\/p>\n ANNAS CROWD MAID BY THE FIRE PETER\u2019S DENIAL<\/p>\n PETER SOLDIER PETER OLD MAN PETER MARY MAGDALENE PETER PILATE AND CHRIST<\/p>\n Friday<\/p>\n PILATE SOLDIER PILATE JESUS How can someone in your state be so cool about your fate? KING HEROD\u2019S SONG (Try it end see)<\/p>\n HEROD So if you are the Christ yes the great Jesus Christ Hey! Aren\u2019t you scared of me Christ? Mr Wonderful Christ! <\/p>\n JUDA\u2019S DEATH<\/p>\n JUDAS PRIEST 3 CAIAPHAS JUDAS My mind is darkness now — My God. I am sick I’ve been used CHOIR TRIAL BEFORE PILATE (Including the 39 lashes)<\/p>\n PILATE CAIAPHAS PILATE MOB JESUS PILATE JESUS PILATE MOB PILATE MOB PILATE MOB PILATE MOB PILATE MOB (Thirty fine lashes)<\/p>\n PILATE You have nothing in your hands PILATE MOB PILATE SUPERSTAR<\/p>\n VOICE OF JUDAS CHOIR VOICE 0F JUDAS CHOIR <\/p>\n THE CRUCIFIXION<\/p>\n <\/p>\n JESUS
\n2) HEAVEN OI THEIR MINDS (4:23)
\n3) WHAT\u2019S THE BUZZ \/ STRANGE THING MYSTIFYING (4:13)
\n4) EVERYTHING\u2019S ALRIGHT (5:15)
\n5) THIS JESUS MUST DIE (3:36)<\/p>\n
\n2) SIMON ZEALOTES \/ POOR JERUSALEM (4:49)
\n3)PILATE\u2019S DREAM (1:28)
\n4) THE TEMPLE (4:43)
\n5) EVERYTHING\u2019S ALRIGHT (0:34)
\n6) I DON4T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM (3:36)
\n7) DAMNED FOR ALL TIME \/ BLOOD MONEY (5:11)<\/p>\n
\n2) GETHSEMANE (I only want to say) (5:33)
\n3) TEE ARREST (3:24)
\n4) PETER\u2019S DENIAL (1:27)
\n5) PILATE AND CHRIST ( 2:46)
\n6) KNG HEROD\u2019S SONG (3:02)<\/p>\n
\n2) TRIAL BEFORE PILATE (Including the 39 LASHES) (5:15)
\n3) SUPERSTAR (4:16)
\n4) CRUCIFIXION (4:04)
\n5) JOHN NINETEEN FORTY-ONE (2:10)
\n<\/p>\n
\nMy mind is clearer now — at last all too well
\nI can see where we all soon will be
\nIf you strip the myth away from the man
\nYou will see where we ail soon will be
\nJesus! You\u2019ve started to believe
\nThe things they say of you
\nYou really do believe
\nThis talk of God is true
\nAnd all the good you\u2019ve done
\nWill soon get swept away
\nYou\u2019ve begun to matter more
\nThan the things you say<\/p>\n
\nAil I ask is that you listen to me
\nAnd remember — I\u2019ve been your right hand man all along
\nYou have set them all on fire
\nThey think they\u2019ve found the new Messiah
\nAnd they\u2019ll hurt you when they find they\u2019re wrong<\/p>\n
\nNo talk of God then–we called you a man
\nAnd believe me — my admiration for you hasn\u2019t died
\nBut every word. you say today
\nGets twisted round some other way
\nAnd they\u2019ll hurt you if they think you\u2019ve lied<\/p>\n
\nLike his father carving wood–he\u2019d have made good
\nTables chairs and oaken chests would have suited Jesus best
\nHe\u2019d have caused nobody harm–no-one alarm<\/p>\n
\nDon\u2019t you see we must keep in our place?
\nWe are occupied — have you forgotten how put down we are?
\nI am frightened by the crowd
\nFor we are getting much too loud
\nAnd they\u2019ll crush us if we go too far<\/p>\n
\nPlease remember that I want us to live
\nBut it\u2019s sad to see our chances weaking with every hour
\nAll your followers are blind
\nToo much heaven on their minds
\nIt was nice but now it\u2019s sour
\nYes it\u2019s all gone sour
\nBethany, Friday night<\/p>\n
\nAPOSTLES
\nWhat\u2019s the buzz? Tell me what\u2019s happening<\/p>\n
\nWhy should you want to know?
\nDon\u2019t you mind about the future, don\u2019t you try to think ahead
\nSave tomorrow for tomorrow, think about today instead<\/p>\n
\nWhat\u2019s the buzz? Tell me what\u2019s happening<\/p>\n
\nI could give you facts and figures — I could give you plans and forecasts
\nEven tell you where I\u2019m going \u2013<\/p>\n
\nWhen do we ride into Jerusalem?<\/p>\n
\nWhy should you want to know?
\nWhy are you obsessed with fighting times and fates you can\u2019t defy?
\nIf you knew the path we\u2019re riding you\u2019d understand it less than I less than I<\/p>\n
\nWhat\u2019s the buzz? Tell me what\u2019s happening<\/p>\n
\nLet me try to cool down your face a bit<\/p>\n
\nThat feels so nice, so nice…
\nMary that is good —
\nWhile you prattle through your supper — where and when and who and how
\nShe alone has tried to give me what I need right here and now<\/p>\n
\nWhat\u2019s the buzz? Tell me what\u2019s happening<\/p>\n
\nThat a man like you can waste his time on women of her kind
\nYes I can understand that she amuses
\nBut to let stroke you kiss your hair is hardly in your line
\nIt\u2019s not that I object to her profession
\nBut she doesn\u2019t fit in well with you teach and say
\nIt doesn\u2019t help us if you are inconsistent
\nThey only need a small excuse to put us all away
\n
\nJESUS
\nWho are you to criticise her? Who are you to despise her?
\nLeave her leave her let her be now
\nLeave her leave her she\u2019s with me now
\nIf your slate is clean then you can throw stones
\nIf your slate is not then leave her alone
\nI\u2019m amazed that men like you can be so shallow thick and slow
\nThere is net a man among you who knows or cares if I come or go<\/p>\n
\nNo you\u2019re wrong! You\u2019re very wrong!
\nHow can you say that?<\/p>\n
\nNot one — not one of you!<\/p>\n
\nTry not to get worried try not to turn on to
\nProblems that upset you oh don\u2019t you know
\nEverything\u2019s alright yes everything\u2019s fine
\nAnd we want you to sleep well tonight
\nLet the world turn without you tonight
\nIf we try we\u2019ll get by so forget all about us tonight<\/p>\n
\nEverything\u2019s alright yes everything\u2019s alright yes<\/p>\n
\nSleep and I shall soothe you calm you and anoint you
\nMyrrh for your hot forehead oh then you\u2019ll feel
\nEverything\u2019s alright yes everything\u2019s fine
\nAnd it\u2019s cool and the ointment\u2019s sweet
\nFor the fire in your head and feet
\nClose your eyes close your eyes
\nAnd relax think of nothing tonight<\/p>\n
\nEverything\u2019s alright yes everything\u2019s alright yes<\/p>\n
\nWoman your fine ointment — brand new and expensive
\nCould have been saved for the poor
\nWhy has it been wasted? We could have raised maybe
\nThree hundred silver pieces or more
\nPeople who are hungry, people who are starving
\nMatter more than your feet and hair
\n
\nMARY MAGDALENE
\nTry not to get worried try not to turn on to
\nProblems that upset you oh don\u2019t you know
\nEverything\u2019s alright yes everything\u2019s fine
\nAnd we want you to sleep well tonight
\nLet the world turn without you tonight
\nIf we try we\u2019ll get by so forget all about us tonight<\/p>\n
\nEverything\u2019s alright yes everything\u2019s alright yes<\/p>\n
\nSurely you are saying we have the resources
\nTo save the poor from their lot
\nThere will be poor always, pathetically strugglin
\nLook at the good things you\u2019ve got!
\nThink! while you still have me
\nMove while you still see me
\nYou\u2019ll be lost and you\u2019ll be so sorry when I\u2019m gone<\/p>\n
\nSleep and I shall soothe you, calm and I shall anoint you
\nMyrrh for your hot forehead oh then you\u2019ll feel
\nEverything\u2019s alright yes everything\u2019s fine
\nAnd it\u2019s cool and the ointment\u2019s sweet
\nFor the fire in your head and feet
\nClose your eyes close your eyes
\nAnd relax think of nothing tonight
\nClose your eyes close your eyes and relax<\/p>\n
\nEverything\u2019s alright yes everything\u2019s alright yes<\/p>\n
\nGood Caiaphas the council waits for you
\nThe Pharisees and priests are here for you<\/p>\n
\nAh gentlemen—you know why we are here
\nWe\u2019ve not much time and quite a problem here<\/p>\n
\nHosanna! Superstar!<\/p>\n
\nListen to that howling mob of blockheads in the street
\nA trick or two with lepers and the whole town\u2019s on it\u2019s feet<\/p>\n
\nALL
\nHe\u2019s dangerous<\/p>\n
\nJesus Christ Superstar–tell us that you\u2019re who they say you are<\/p>\n
\nHe is dangerous<\/p>\n
\nThe man is in town right now to whip up some support<\/p>\n
\nA rabble rousing mission that I think we must abort<\/p>\n
\nHe is dangerous!<\/p>\n
\nJesus Christ Superstar<\/p>\n
\nHe is dangerous!<\/p>\n
\nLook Caiaphas–they’re right outside our yard<\/p>\n
\nQuick Caiaphas- -go call the Roman guard<\/p>\n
\nNo wait — we need a more permanent solution to our problem.<\/p>\n
\nWhat then to do about Jesus of Nazareth
\nMiracle wonderman — hero of fools?<\/p>\n
\nOne thing I\u2019ll say for him — Jesus is cool<\/p>\n
\nWe dare not to leave him to his own devices
\nHis half-witted fans will get out of control<\/p>\n
\nBut how can we stop him? His glamour increases
\nBy leaps every minute — he\u2019s top of the poll<\/p>\n
\nI see bad things arising — the crowd crown him king
\nWhich the Romans would ban
\nI see blood and destruction, our elimination
\nBecause of one man
\nBlood and destruction because of one man
\n
\nALL
\nBecause, because, because of one man<\/p>\n
\nOur elimination because of one man<\/p>\n
\nBecause, because, because of one, \u2018cause of one \u2018cause of one man<\/p>\n
\nWhat then to do about this Jesusmania?<\/p>\n
\nHow do we deal with the carpenter king?<\/p>\n
\nWhere do we start with a man who is bigger
\nThan John was when John did his Baptism thing<\/p>\n
\nFools! You have no perception!
\nThe stakes we are gambling are frightenly high!
\nWe must crush him completely —
\nSo like John before him, this Jesus must die
\nFor the sake of the nation this Jesus must die<\/p>\n
\nMust die, must die, this Jesus must die<\/p>\n
\nSo like John before him, this Jesus must die<\/p>\n
\nMust die, must die, this Jesus must, Jesus must, Jesus must die<\/p>\n
\nHOSANNA<\/p>\n
\nHosanna Heysanna Sanna Sanna Ho
\nSanna Hey Sanna Ho Sanna
\nHey JC, JC won\u2019t you smile at me?
\nSanna Ho Sanna Hey Superstar<\/p>\n
\nTell the rabble to be quiet we anticipate a riot
\nThis common crowd is much too loud
\nTell the mob who sing your song that they are fools and they are wrong
\nThey are a curse, they should disperse<\/p>\n
\nHosanna Heysanna Sanna Sanna Ho
\nSanna Hey Sanna Ho Sanna
\nHey JC, JC you\u2019re alright by me
\nSanna Ho Sanna Hey Superstar<\/p>\n
\nWhy waste your breath moaning at the crowd?
\nNothing can be done to stop the shouting
\nIf every tongue was still the noise would still continue
\nThe rocks and stones themselves would start to sing:<\/p>\n
\nHosanna Heysanna Sanna Sanna Ho
\nSanna Hey Sanna Ho Sanna
\nHey JC, JC won\u2019t you fight for me?
\nSanna Ho Sanna Hey Superstar<\/p>\n
\nChrist you know I love you
\nDid you see I waved?
\nI believe in you and God
\nSo tell me that I\u2019m saved
\nChrist you know I love you
\nDid you see I waved?
\nI believe in you and God
\nSe tell me that I\u2019m saved
\nJesus I am with you
\nTouch me touch me Jesus
\nJesus I\u2019m on your side
\nKiss me kiss me Jesus<\/p>\n
\nChrist, what more do you need to convince you
\nThat you\u2019ve made it and you\u2019re easily as strong
\nAs the filth from Rome who rape our country
\nAnd who\u2019ve terrorized our people for so long?
\n
\nCROWD
\nChrist you know I love you
\nDid you see I waved?
\nI believe in you and God
\nSo tell me that I\u2019m saved
\nChrist you know I love you
\nDid you see I waved?
\nI believe in you and God
\nSo tell me that I\u2019m saved
\nJesus I\u2019m on your side
\nTouch me touch me Jesus
\nJesus I am with you
\nKiss me kiss me Jesus<\/p>\n
\nThere must be over fifty thousand
\nScreaming love and more for you
\nEveryone of fifty thousand
\nWould do whatever you ask him to
\nKeep them yelling their devotion
\nBut add a touch of hate at Rome
\nYou will rise to a greater power
\nWe will win ourselves a home
\nYou\u2019ll get the power and the glory
\nFor ever and ever and ever
\nAmen !Amen!<\/p>\n
\nNeither you Simon, nor the fifty thousand
\nNor the Romans, nor the Jews, nor Judas, nor the Twelve
\nNor the priests, nor the Scribes, nor doomed Jerusalem itself
\nUnderstand what power is
\nUnderstand what glory is
\nUnderstand at all… understand at all
\nIf you knew all that I knew, my poor Jerusalem
\nYou\u2019d see the truth but you close your eyes
\nBut you close your eyes
\nWhile you live your troubles are many, poor Jerusalem
\nTo conquer death you only have to die
\nYou only have to die<\/p>\n
\nI dreamed I met a Galilean
\nA most amazing man
\nHe had that look you very rarely find
\nThe haunting hunted kind
\nI asked him to say what had happened
\nHow it all began
\nI asked again he never said a word
\nAs if he hadn\u2019t heard
\nAnd next the room was full of wild and angry men
\nThey seemed to hate this man — they fell on him and then
\nThey disappeared again
\nThen I saw thousands of millions
\nCrying for this man
\nAnd then I heard them mentioning my name
\nAnd leaving me the blame
\n
\nTHE TEMPLE<\/p>\n
\nRoll on up–for my price is down
\nCome on in–for the best in town
\nTake your pick of the finest wine
\nLay your bets on this bird of mine
\nRoll on up–for my price is down
\nCome on in–for the best in town
\nTake your pick of the finest wine
\nLay your bets on this bird of mine
\nName your price I got everything
\nCome and buy it\u2019s all going fast
\nBorrow cash on the finest terms
\nHurry now while the stocks still last<\/p>\n
\nMy temple should be a house of prayer
\nBut you have made it a den of thieves
\nGet out! Get out!
\nMy time is almost through
\nLittle left to do
\nAfter all I\u2019ve tried for three years, seems like thirty
\nSeems like thirty<\/p>\n
\nSee my eyes I can hardly see
\nSee me stand I can hardly walk
\nI believe you can make me whole
\nSee my tongue I can hardly talk
\nSee my skin I\u2019m a mass of blood
\nSee my legs I can hardly stand
\nI believe you can make me well
\nSee my purse I\u2019m a poor poor man
\nWill you touch will you mend me Christ
\nWon\u2019t you touch will you heal me Christ
\nWill you kiss you can cure me Christ
\nWon\u2019t you kiss won\u2019t you pay me Christ<\/p>\n
\nThere\u2019s too many of you–don\u2019t push me
\nThere\u2019s too little of me–don\u2019t crowd me
\nHeal yourselves!<\/p>\n
\nTry not to get worried try not to turn on to
\nProblems that upset you oh don\u2019t you know
\nEverything\u2019s alright yes everything\u2019s fine<\/p>\n
\nAnd I think I shall sleep well tonight
\nLet the world turn without me tonight<\/p>\n
\nClose your eyes close your eyes
\nAnd relax think of nothing tonight
\nI don\u2019t know how to love him
\nWhat to do how to move him
\nI\u2019ve been changed yes really changed
\nIn these past few days when I\u2019ve seen myself
\nI seem like someone else
\nI don\u2019t know how to take this
\nI don\u2019t see why he moves me
\nHe\u2019s a man he\u2019s just a man
\nAnd I\u2019ve had so many men before
\nIn very many ways
\nHe\u2019s just one more
\nShould I bring him down should I scream and shout
\nShould I speak of love let my feelings out
\nI never thought I\u2019d come to this — what\u2019s it all about
\nDon\u2019t you think it\u2019s rather funny
\nI should be in this position
\nI\u2019m the one who\u2019s always been
\nSo calm so cool, no lover\u2019s fool
\nRunning every show
\nHe scares me so
\nI never thought I\u2019d come to this — what\u2019s it all about
\nYet if he said he loved me
\nI\u2019d be lost I\u2019d be frightened
\nI couldn\u2019t cope, just couldn\u2019t cope
\nI\u2019d turn my head I\u2019d back away
\nI wouldn\u2019t want to know
\nHe scares me so
\nI want him so
\nI love him so<\/p>\n
\nNow if I help you it matters that you see
\nThese sordid kind of thing are coming hard to me
\nIt\u2019s taken me some time to work out what to do
\nI weighed the whole thing up before I came to you
\nI have no thought at all about my own reward
\nI really didn\u2019t come here of my own accord
\nJust don\u2019t say I\u2019m
\nDammed for all time
\nI came because I had to I\u2019m the one who saw
\nJesus can\u2019t control it like he did before
\nAnd furthermore I know that Jesus thinks so too
\nJesus wouldn\u2019t mind that I was here with you
\nI have no thought at all about my own reward
\nI really didn\u2019t come here of my own accord
\nJust don\u2019t say I\u2019m
\nDamned for ail time
\nAnnas you\u2019re a friend a wordly man and wise
\nCaiaphas my friend I know you sympathise
\nWhy are we the prophets? Why are we the ones
\nWho see the sad solution — know what must be done?
\nI have no thought at all about my own reward
\nI really didn\u2019t come here of my own accord
\nJust don\u2019t say I\u2019m
\nDamned for all time<\/p>\n
\nCut the protesting forget the excuses
\nWe want information get up off the floor<\/p>\n
\nWe have the papers we need to arrest him
\nYou know his movements–we know the law<\/p>\n
\nYour help in this matter won\u2019t go unrewarded<\/p>\n
\nWe\u2019ll pay you in silver–cash on the nail
\nWe just need. to know where the soldiers can find him<\/p>\n
\nWith no crowd around him<\/p>\n
\nThen we can\u2019t fail<\/p>\n
\nI don\u2019t need your blood money!<\/p>\n
\nOh that doesn\u2019t matter our expenses are good<\/p>\n
\nI don\u2019t want your blood money!<\/p>\n
\nBut you might as well take it — we think that you should<\/p>\n
\nThink of the thinks you can do with that money
\nChoose and charity — give to the poor
\nWe\u2019ve noted your motives — we\u2019ve noted your feelings
\nThis isn\u2019t blood money — it\u2019s a fee nothing
\nFee nothing, fee nothing more<\/p>\n
\nOn Thursday night you\u2019ll find him where you want
\nFar from the crowds in the garden of Gethsemane
\nCHOIR
\nWell done Judas
\nGood old Judas<\/p>\n
\nLook at all my trials and tribulations
\nSinking in a gentle pool of wine
\nDon\u2019t disturb me now I can see the answers
\nTill this evening is this morning life is fine
\nAlways hoped that I\u2019d be an apostle
\nKnew that I would make it if I tried
\nThen when we retire we can write the gospels
\nSo they\u2019ll still talk about us when we\u2019ve died.<\/p>\n
\nThe end…
\nIs just a little harder when brought about by friends
\nFor all you care this wine could be my blood.
\nFor all you care this bread could be my body
\nThe end!
\nThis is my blood you drink
\nThis is my body you eat
\nIf you would remember me when you eat and drink…
\nI must be mad thinking I\u2019ll be remembered — yes
\nI must be out of my head!
\nLook at your blank faces! My name will mean nothing
\nTen minutes after I\u2019m dead!
\nOne of you denies me
\nOne of you betrays me<\/p>\n
\nNot I! Who would! Impossible!
\n
\nJESUS
\nPeter will deny me in just a few hours
\nThree times will deny me — and that\u2019s not all I see
\nOne of you denying– one of my twelve chosen
\nWill leave to betray me \u2013<\/p>\n
\nCut out the dramatics! You know very well who\u2014<\/p>\n
\nWhy don\u2019t you go do it?<\/p>\n
\nYou want me to do it!<\/p>\n
\nHurry, they are waiting<\/p>\n
\nIf you knew why I do it…<\/p>\n
\nI don\u2019t care why you do it!<\/p>\n
\nTo think I admired you
\nFor now I despise you<\/p>\n
\nYou liar — you Judas<\/p>\n
\nYou want me to do it!
\nWhat if I just stayed here
\nAnd ruined your ambition?
\nChrist you deserve it!<\/p>\n
\nHurry you fool, hurry and go,
\nSave me your speeches, I don\u2019t want to know — Go!<\/p>\n
\nLook t all my trials and tribulations
\nSinking in a gentle pool of wine
\nWhat\u2019s that in the bread it\u2019s gone to my head
\nTill this morning is this evening life is fine
\nAlways hoped that I\u2019d be an apostle
\nKnew that I would make it if I tried
\nThen when we retire we can write the gospels
\nSo they\u2019ll all talk about us when we\u2019ve died<\/p>\n
\nYou sad pathetic man — see where you\u2019ve brought us to
\nOur ideals die around us all because of you
\nAnd now the saddest cut of all —
\nSomeone has to turn you in
\nLike a common criminal, like a wounded animal
\nA jaded mandarin
\nA jaded mandarin
\nA faded jaded mandarin<\/p>\n
\nGet out! They\u2019re waiting! They\u2019re waiting for you!<\/p>\n
\nEvery time I look at you I don\u2019t understand
\nWhy you let the things you did get so out of hand
\nYou\u2019d have managed better if you had it planned
\n
\nAPOSTLES
\nLook at all my trials and tribulations
\nSinking in a gentle pool of wine
\nDon\u2019t disturb me now I can see the answers
\nTill this evening is this morning life is fine
\nAlways hoped that I\u2019d be an apostle
\nKnew that I would make it if I tried
\nThen when we retire we can write the gospels
\nSo they\u2019ll still talk about us when we\u2019ve died<\/p>\n
\nWill no-one of you stay awake with me?
\nPeter? John? James?
\nWill none of you wait with me?
\nPeter? John? James?<\/p>\n
\nI only went to say
\nIf there is a way
\nTake this cup away from me for I don\u2019t want to taste its poison
\nFeel it burn me, I have changed, I\u2019m not as sure
\nAs when we started
\nThen I was inspired
\nNow I\u2019m sad and tired
\nListen surely I\u2019ve exceeded expectations
\nTried for three years seems like thirty
\nCould you ask as much from any other man?
\nBut f I die
\nSee the saga through and do the things you ask of me
\nLet them hate me hit me hurt me nail me to their tree
\nI\u2019d wanna know I\u2019d wanna know my God
\nI\u2019d wanna see I\u2019d wanna see my God
\nWhy I should die
\nWould I be more noticed than I ever was before?
\nWould the things I\u2019ve said and done matter any more?
\nI\u2019d have to know I\u2019d have to know my Lord
\nI\u2019d have to see I\u2019d have to see my Lord
\nIf I die what will be my reward?
\nI\u2019d have to know I\u2019d have to know my Lord
\nWhy should I die?
\nCan you show me that I would not he killed in vain?
\nShow me just a little of your omnipresent brain
\nShow me there\u2019s a reason for you wanting me to die
\nYou\u2019re far too keen on where and how and not so hot on why
\nAll right I\u2019ll die!
\nJust watch me die!
\nSee how I die!
\nThen I was inspired
\nNow I\u2019m sad and tired
\nAfter all I\u2019ve tried for three years seems like ninety
\nWhy then am I scared to finish what I started
\nWhat you started — I didn\u2019t start it
\nGod thy will is hard
\nBut you hold every card
\nI will drink your cup of poison, nail me to your cross and break me
\nBleed me beat me kill me take me now — before I change my mind<\/p>\n
\nThere he is! They\u2019re ail asleep–the fools!<\/p>\n
\nJudas — must you betray me with a kiss?<\/p>\n
\nWhat\u2019s the buzz? Tell me what\u2019s happening<\/p>\n
\nWhat\u2019s the buzz? Tell me what\u2019s happening
\nHang on Lord we\u2019re gonna fight for you<\/p>\n
\nPut away your sword
\nDon\u2019t you know that\u2019s it\u2019s all over?
\nIt was nice but now it\u2019s gone
\nWhy are you obsessed with fighting?
\nStick to fishing from now on<\/p>\n
\nTell me Christ how you feel tonight
\nDo you plan to put up a fight?
\nDo you feel that you\u2019ve had the breaks?
\nWhat would you say with your big mistakes?
\nDo you think that you may retire?
\nDid you think you would get much higher?
\nHow do you view your oncoming trial?
\nHave your men proved at all worthwhile?
\nCome with us to see Caiaphas
\nYou\u2019ll just love the High Priest house
\nYou\u2019ll just love seeing Caiaphas
\nYou\u2019ll just die in the High Priest house
\nCome on God this is not like you
\nLet us now what you\u2019re gonna do
\nDo you know what your supporters feel?
\nYou\u2019ll escape in the final reel
\nTell me Christ how you feel tonight
\nDo you plan to put up a fight?
\nDo you feel that you\u2019ve had the breaks?
\nWhat would you say with your big mistakes?
\nCome with us to feel Caiaphas
\nYou\u2019ll just love the High Priest house
\nYou\u2019ll just love seeing Caiaphas
\nYou\u2019ll just die in the High Priest\u2019s house<\/p>\n
\nJesus you must realise the serious charges facing you
\nYou say you\u2019re the son of God in all your handouts — well is it true?<\/p>\n
\nThere you have it gentlemen —
\nWhat more evidence do we need?
\nJudas thank you for the victim —
\nStay a while and you\u2019ll see it bleed!<\/p>\n
\nNow we have him! Now we\u2019ve got him!
\nTake him to Pilate!<\/p>\n
\nI think I\u2019ve seen you somewhere — I remember
\nYou were with that man they took away
\nI recognize your face<\/p>\n
\nYou\u2019ve got the wrong man lady I don\u2019t know him
\nAnd I wasn\u2019t where he was tonight — never near the place<\/p>\n
\nThat\u2019s strange for I am sure I saw you with him
\nYou were right by his side and yet you denied.<\/p>\n
\nI tell you I never ever was with him<\/p>\n
\nBut I saw you too — it looked just like you<\/p>\n
\nI don\u2019t know him!<\/p>\n
\nPeter — don\u2019t you know what you have said
\nYou\u2019ve gone and cut him dead<\/p>\n
\nI had to do it don\u2019t you see?
\nOr else they\u2019d go for me<\/p>\n
\nMARY MAGDALENE
\nIt\u2019s what he told us you would do
\nI wonder how he knew.<\/p>\n
\nWho is this broken man cluttering up my hallway?
\nWho is this unfortunate?<\/p>\n
\nSomeone Christ — King of the Jews<\/p>\n
\nOh so this is Jesus Christ, I am really quite surprised
\nYou look so small — not a king at all
\nWe all know that you are news — but are you king
\nKing of the Jews?<\/p>\n
\nThat\u2019s what you say
\nPILATE
\nWhat do you mean by that?
\nThat is not an answer
\nYou\u2019re deep in trouble friend —
\nSomeone Christ — King of the Jews<\/p>\n
\nAn amazing thing — this silent king
\nSince you come from Galilee then you need not come to me
\nYou\u2019re Herod\u2019s race! You\u2019re Herod\u2019s case!
\nHo-ho Sanna Hey Sanna Sanna Sanna Ho
\nSanna Hey Sanna Ho and how
\nHey JC, JC please explain to me
\nYou had everything where is it now?<\/p>\n
\nJesus I am overjoyed to meet you face to face
\nYou\u2019ve been getting quite a name all around the place
\nHealing cripples raising from the dead
\nAnd now I understand that you\u2019re God at least that\u2019s what you\u2019ve said
\nSo you are the Christ you\u2019re the great Jesus Christ
\nProve me that you\u2019re divine — change my water into wine
\nThat\u2019s all you need do and I\u2019ll know it\u2019s all true
\nC\u2019mon King of the Jews
\nJesus you won\u2019t just believe the hit you\u2019ve made round here
\nYou are all we talk about the wonder of the year
\nOh what a pity if it\u2019s all a lie
\nStill I\u2019m sure that you can rock the cynics if you try
\nSo you are the Christ you\u2019re the great Jesus Christ
\nProve to me that you\u2019re no fool–walk across my swimming pool
\nIf you do that for me then I let you go free
\nC\u2019mon King of the Jews
\nI only ask things I\u2019d ask any superstar
\nWhat is it that you have got that puts you where you are?
\nI\u2019m waiting yes I\u2019m a captive fan
\nI\u2019m dying to be shown that you are not just any man<\/p>\n
\nFeed my household with this bread–you can do it on your head
\nOr has something gone wrong? Why do you take so long?
\nC\u2019mon King of the Jews<\/p>\n
\nYou\u2019re a joke you\u2019re not a Lord–you are nothing but a fraud
\nTake him away — he\u2019s got nothing to say!
\nGet out you King of the Jews! Get out of my life!<\/p>\n
\nMy God I saw him — he looked three quarters dead
\nAnd he was so bad I had to turn my head
\nYou beat him so hard that he was bent and lame
\nAnd I know who everybody\u2019s gonna blame
\nI don\u2019t believe he knows I acted for our good
\nI\u2019d save him all this suffering if I could
\nDon\u2019t believe….our good…save him…if I could<\/p>\n
\nCut the confession forget the excuses
\nI don\u2019t understand why you\u2019re filled with remorse
\nAll that you\u2019ve said has come true with a vengeance
\nThe mob turned against him — you backed the right horse<\/p>\n
\nWhat you have done will be the saving of Israel
\nYou\u2019ll be remembered forever for this
\nAnd not only that you\u2019ve been paid for your efforts
\nPretty good wages for one little kiss<\/p>\n
\nChrist! I know you can\u2019t hear me
\nBut I only did what you wanted me to
\nChrist! I\u2019d sell out the nation
\nFor I have been saddled with the murder of you
\nI have been spattered with innocent blood
\nI shall be dragged through the slime and the mud
\nI have been spattered with innocent blood
\nI shall be dragged through the slime and the mud!
\nI don\u2019t know how to love him
\nI don\u2019t know why he moves me
\nHe\u2019s a man–he\u2019s just a man
\nHe\u2019s not a king — he\u2019s just the same
\nAs anyone I know
\nHe scares me so
\nWhen he\u2019s cold and dead will he let me be?
\nDoes he love me too? Does he care for me?<\/p>\n
\nAnd you knew all the time
\nGod! I\u2019ll never ever know why you chose me for your crime
\nFor your foul bloody crime
\nYou have murdered me! You have murdered me!<\/p>\n
\nPoor old Judas
\nSo long Judas<\/p>\n
\nAnd so he king is once again my guest
\nAnd. why is this? Was Herod unimpressed?<\/p>\n
\nWe turn to Rome to sentence Nazareth
\nWe have no law to put a man to death
\nWe need him crucified — it\u2019s all you have to do
\nWe need him crucified — it\u2019s all you have to do<\/p>\n
\nTalk to me Jesus Christ
\nYou have been brought here–manacled, beaten
\nBy your own people — do you have the first idea why you deserve it?
\nListen King of the Jews
\nWhere is your kingdom?
\nLook at me — am I a Jew?
\n
\nJESUS
\nI have got no kingdom in this world — I\u2019m through, through, through<\/p>\n
\nTalk to me Jesus Christ<\/p>\n
\nThere may be a kingdom for me somewhere — if I only knew<\/p>\n
\nThen you\u2019re a king?<\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019s you that say I am
\nI look for truth and find that I get damned<\/p>\n
\nBut what is truth? Is truth unchanging law?
\nWe both have truths — are mine the same as yours?<\/p>\n
\nCrucify him!<\/p>\n
\nWhat do you mean? You\u2019d crucify your king?<\/p>\n
\nWe have no king but Cesar!<\/p>\n
\nHe\u2019s done no wrong — no not the slightest thing<\/p>\n
\nWe have no king but Cesar! Crucify him!<\/p>\n
\nHe\u2019s done no wrong—no not the slightest thing<\/p>\n
\nWe have no king but Cesar! Crucify him!<\/p>\n
\nI see no reason — I find no evil
\nThis man is harmless so why does he upset you?
\nHe\u2019s just misguided–thinks he\u2019s important
\nBut to keep your vultures happy I shall flog him<\/p>\n
\nCRUCIFY HIM!<\/p>\n
\nWhere are you from Jesus? What do you want Jesus?
\nTell me
\nYou\u2019ve got to be careful — you could be dead soon
\ncould well be
\nWhy do you not speak when I have your life in my hands?
\nHow can you stay quiet? I don\u2019t believe you understand
\n
\nJESUS<\/p>\n
\nAny power you have comes to you from far beyond
\nEverything is fixed and you can\u2019t change it<\/p>\n
\nYou\u2019re a fool Jesus Christ — how can I help you?<\/p>\n
\nPilate! Crucify him!
\nRemember Caesar\u2014-you have a duty!
\nTo keep the peace so crucify him!
\nRemember Caesar — you\u2019ll be demoted, you\u2019ll be deported
\nCrucify him!<\/p>\n
\nDon\u2019t let me stop your great self-destruction
\nDie if you want to you misguided martyr
\nI wash my hands of your demolition
\nDie if you want to you innocent puppet!<\/p>\n
\nEvery time I look at you I don\u2019t understand
\nWhy you let the things you did get so out of hand
\nYou\u2019d have managed better if you had it planned
\nWhy d\u2019you chose such a backward time
\nand such a strange land?
\nIf you\u2019d come today you would have reached a whole nation
\nIsrael in 4 BC had no mass communication
\nDon\u2019t get me wrong — I only want to know<\/p>\n
\nJesus Christ, Jesus Christ
\nWho are you what have you sacrificed?
\nJesus Christ Superstar
\nDo you think you\u2019re what they say you are?<\/p>\n
\nTell me what you think about your friends at the top
\nWho\u2019d you think besides yourself\u2019s the pick of the crop?
\nBuddha was he where it\u2019s at? Is he where you are?
\nCould Mahomet move as mountain or was that just PR?
\nDid you mean to die like that? Was it a mistake or
\nDid you know your Messy death would be a record breaker?
\nDon\u2019t get me wrong–I only want to know<\/p>\n
\nJesus Christ, Jesus Christ
\nWho are you what have you sacrificed?
\nJesus Christ Superstar
\nDo you think you\u2019re what they say you are?<\/p>\n
\nGod forgive them — they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing
\nWho is my mother? Where is my mother?
\nMy God My God why have you forgotten me?
\nI am thirsty
\nIt is finished
\nFather into your hands I commend my spirit<\/p>\n