Jesus Christ Superstar
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Take your pick of the finest wine
Lay your bets on this bird of mine
Roll on up – for my price is down
Come on in – for the best in town
Take pour pick of the finest wine
Lay your bets on this bird of mine
Name your price I got everything
Came and buy it's all going fast
Borrow cash on the finest terms
Hurry now while stocks still last
Roll on up – for my price is down
Come on in – for the best in town
Take your pick of the finest wine
Lay your bets on this bird of mine
Roll on up – for my price is down
Come on in – for the best in town
Take pour pick of the finest wine
Lay your bets on this bird of mine
Name your price I got everything
Came and buy it's all going fast
Borrow cash on the finest terms
Hurry now while stocks still last
Roll on up – for my price is down
Come on in – for the best in town
Take your pick of the finest wine
Lay your bets on this bird of mine
Roll on up – for my price is down
Come on in – for the best in town
JESUS
My temple should be a house of prayer
But you have made it a den of thieves
Got out! Get out!
My time is almost through
Little left to do
After all I've tried for three years,
Seems like thirty
Seems like thirty!
CROWD
See my eyes I can hardly see
See me stand I can hardly walk
I believe you can make me whole
See my tongue I can hardly talk
See my skin I'm a mass of blood
See my legs I can hardly stand
I believe you can make me well
See my purse I'm a poor poor man
Will you touch will you mend me Christ
Won't you touch will you heal me Christ
Will you kiss you can cure me Christ
Won't you kiss won't you pay me Christ
See my eyes I can hardly see
See me stand I can hardly walk
I believe you can make me whole
See my tongue I can hardly talk
See my skin I'm a mass of blood
See my legs I can hardly stand
I believe you can make me well
See my purse I'm a poor poor man
Will you touch will you mend me Christ
Won't you touch will you heal me Christ
Will you kiss you can cure me Christ
Won't you kiss won't you pay me Christ
See my eyes I can hardly see
See me stand I can hardly walk
I believe you can make me whole
See my tongue I can hardly talk
See my skin I'm a mass of blood
See my legs I can hardly stand
I believe you can make me well
See my purse I'm a poor poor man
Will you touch will you mend me Christ
Won't you touch will you heal me Christ
Will you kiss you can cure me Christ
Won't you kiss won't you pay me Christ
JESUS
There's too many of you – don't push me
There's too little of me – don't crowd me
Heal yourselves!
Everything's alright.
MARY MAGDALENE
Try not to get worried try no to turn on to
Problems that upset you oh don't you know
Everything's alright yes everything's fine
JESUS
And I think I shall sleep well tonight
Let the world turn without me tonight
MARY MAGDALENE
Close your eyes close year eyes
And forget all about us tonight
I don't know how to love him?
MARY MAGDALENE
I don't know how to love him
What to do how to move him
I've been changed yes really changed
In these past few days when I've seen myself
I seem like someone else
I don't know how to take this
I don't see why he moves me
He's a man he's just a man
And I've had so many men before
In very many ways
He's just one more
Should I bring him down
Should I scream and shout
Should I speak of love
Let my feelings out
I never thought I'd come to this -
What's it all about
Don't you think it's rather funny
I should be in this position
I'm the one who's always been
So calm so cool, no lover's fool
Running every show
He scares me so
I never thought I'd come to this -
What's it all about
Yet if he said he loved me
I'd be lost I'd be frightened
I couldn't cope just couldn't cope
I'd turn my head I'd back away
I wouldn't want to know
He scares me so
I want him so
I love him so
Damned for all time. / Blood money.
Jerusalem, Tuesday
JUDAS
Now if I help you it matters that you see
These sordid kind of things are coming hard to me
It's taken me some time to work out what to do
I weighed the whole thing up before I came to you
I have no thought at all about my own reward
I really didn't come here of my own accord
Just don't say I'm
Damned for all time
I came because I had to I'm the one who saw
Jesus can't control it like he did before
And furthermore I know that Jesus thinks so too
Jesus wouldn't mind that I was here with you
I have no thought at all about my own reward
I really didn't come here of my own accord
Just don't say I'm
Damned for all time
Annas you're a friend a wordly man and wise
Caiaphas my friend I know you sympathise
Why are we the prophets? Why are we the ones?
Who see the sad solution – know what must be done
I have no thought at all about my own reward
I really didn't come here of my own accord
Just don't say I'm
Damned for all time
ANNAS
Cut the protesting forget the excuses
We want information get up off the floor
CAIAPHAS
We have the papers we need to arrest him
You know his movements – we know the law
ANNAS
Your help in this matter won't go unrewarded
CAIAPHAS
We'll pay you in silver – cash on the nail
We just need to know where the soldiers can find him
ANNAS
With no crowd around him
CAIAPHAS
Then we can't fail
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JUDAS
I don't need your blood money!
CAIAPHAS
Oh that doesn't matter our expenses are good
JUDAS
I don't want your blood money!
ANNAS
But you might as well take it – we think that you should
CAIAPHAS
Think of the things you can do with that money
Choose any charity – give to the poor
We've noted your motives we've noted your feelings
This isn't blood money – it's a fee nothing
Fee nothing, fee
nothing more.
JUDAS
On Thursday night you'll find him where you want him
Far from the crowds in the Garden of Gethsemane
CHOIR
Well done Judas
Good old Judas
ACT-II
The last supper.
Thursday Night
APOSTLES
Look at all my trials and tribulations
Sinking in a gentle pool of wine
Don't disturb me now I can see the answers
Till this evening is this morning life is fine
Always hoped that I'd be an apostle
Knew that I would make it if I tried
Then when we retire we can write the gospels
So they'll still talk about us when we've died
JESUS
The end ...
Is just a little harder when brought about by friends
For all you care this wine could be my blood
For all you care this bread could be my body
The end!
This is my blood you drink
This is my body you eat
If you would remember me when you eat and drink ...
I must be mad thinking I'll be remembered – yes
I must be out of my head!
Look at your blank faces! My name will mean nothing
Ten minutes after I'm dead!
One of you denies me
One of you betrays me -
APOSTLES
Not I! Who would? Impossible!
JESUS
Peter will deny me in just a few hours
Three time will deny me – and that's not all I see
One of you here dining, one of my twelve chosen
Will leave to betray me -
JUDAS
Cut out the dramatics! You know very well who -
JESUS
Why don't you go do it?
JUDAS
You want me to do it!
JESUS
Harry they are waiting
JUDAS
If you knew why I do it ...
JESUS
I don't care why you do it!
JUDAS
To think I admired you
For now I despise you
JESUS
You liar – you Judas
JUDAS
You want me to do it!
What if I just stayed here
And ruined your ambition?
Christ you deserve it!
JESUS
Hurry you fool, hurry and go,
Save me your speeches, I don't want to know – Go!
APOSTLES
Look at all my trials and tribulations
Sinking in a gentle pool of wine
What's that in the bread it's gone to my head
Till this morning is this evening life is fine
Always hoped that I'd be an apostle
Knew that I would make it if I tried
Then when we retire we can write the gospels
So they'll all talk about us when we've died
JUDAS
You sad pathetic man – see where you've brought us to
Our ideals die around us all because of you
And now the saddest cut of all -
Someone has to turn you in
Like a common criminal, like a wounded animal
A jaded mandarin
A jaded mandarin
A jaded faded mandarin
JESUS
Get out! They're waiting! They're waiting for you!
JUDAS
Everytime I look at you I don't understand
Why you let the things you did get so out of hand
You'd have managed better if you'd had it planned -
APOSTLES
Look at all my trials and tribulations
Sinking in a gentle peal of wine
Don't disturb me now I can see the answers
Till this evening is this morning life is fine
Always hoped that I'd be an apostle
Knew that I would make it if I tried
Then when we retire we can write the gospels
So they'll still talk about us when we've died
JESUS
Will no-one stay awake with me?
Peter? John? James?
Will none of you wait with me?
Peter? John? James?
Gethsemane (I Only Want To Say).
Garden of Gethsemane
JESUS
I only want to say
If there is away
Take this cup away
From me for I don't want to taste its poison
Feel it burn me,
I have changed I'm not as sure
As when we started
Then I was inspired
Now I'm sad and tired
Listen surely I've exceeded expectations
Tried for three years seems like thirty
Could you ask as much from any other man?
But if I die
See the saga through and do the things you ask of me
Let them hate me hit me hurt me nail me to their tree
I'd wanna know I'd wanna know my God
I'd wanna know I'd wanna know my God
I'd wanna see I'd wanna see my God
I'd wanna see I'd wanna see my God
Why I should die?
Would I be more noticed than I was ever before?
Would the things I've said and done matter any more?
I'd have to know I'd have to know my Lord
I'd have to know I'd have to know my Lord
I'd have to see I'd have to see my Lord
I'd have to see I'd have to see my Lord
If I die what will be my reward?
If I die what will be my reward?
I'd have to know I'd have to know my Lord
I'd have to know I'd have to know my Lord
Why should I die?
Why should I die?
Can you show me now that I would not be killed in vain?
Show me just a little of your omnipresent brain
Show me there's a reason for your wanting me to die
You're far too keen on where and how and not so hot on why
Alright I'll die!
Just watch me die!
See how I die!
Then I was inspired
Now I'm sad and tired
After all I've tried for three years seems like ninety
Why then am I scared to finish what I started
What you started – I didn't start it
God thy will is hard
But you hold every card
I will drink your cup of poison, nail me to the cross and break me
Bleed me beat me kill me take me now – before I change my mind
The arrest.
JUDAS
There he is! They're all a sleep – the fools!
JESUS
Judas – must you betray me with a kiss?
PETER
What's the buzz? Tell me what's happening
PETER AND APOSTLES
What's the buzz? Tell me what's happening
Hang on Lord we're gonna fight for you
JESUS
Put away your sword
Don't you know that it's all over?
It was nice but now it's gone
Why are you obsessed with fighting?
Stick to fishing from now on
CROWD
Tell me Christ how you feel tonight
Do you plan to put up a fight?
Do you feel that you've had the breaks?
What would you say were your big mistakes?
Do you think that you may retire?
Did you think you would get much higher?
How do you view your coming trial?
Have your men proved at all worthwhile?
Come with us to see Caiaphas
You'll just love the High Priest's house
You'll just love seeing Caiaphas
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You'll just die in the High Priest's house
Come on God this is not like you
Let us know what you're gonna do
You know what your supporters feel
You'll escape in the final reel
Tell me Christ how you feel tonight
Do you plan to put up a fight?
Do you feel that you've had the breaks?
What would you say were your big mistakes?
Come with us to age Caiaphas
You'll just love the High Priest's house
You'll just love seeing Caiaphas
You'll just die in High Priest's house
Now we have him! Now we have got him!
CAIAPHAS
Jesus you must realise the serious charges facing you
You say you're the Son of God in all your handouts – well is it true?
JESUS
That's what you say – you say that I am
ANNAS
There you have it gentlemen -
What more evidence do we need?
Judas thank you for the victim -
Stay a while and you'll see it bleed?
CROWD
Now we hare him! Now we have got him!
Take him to Pilate!
Peter's denial.
MAID BY THE FIRE
I think I've seen you somewhere -
I remember
You were with that man they took away
I recognise your face
PETER