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Jesus Christ Superstar

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by Andrew Lloyd Webber


  You've got the wrong man lady

  I don't know him

  And I wasn't where he was tonight -

  Never near the place

  SOLDIER

  That's strange for I am sure I saw you with him

  You were right by his side and yet you denied -

  PETER

  I tell you I was never with him

  OLD MAN

  But I saw you too – it looked just like you

  PETER

  I don't know him!

  MARY MAGDALENE

  Peter – don't you know what you have said

  You've gone and cut him dead

  PETER

  I had to do it don't you see?

  Or else they'd go for me

  MARY MAGDALENE

  It's what he told us you would do -

  I wonder how he knew ...

  Pilate and Christ.

  Friday

  PILATE

  Who is this broken man cluttering up my hallway?

  Who is this unfortunate?

  SOLDIER

  Someone Christ – King of the Jews

  PILATE

  Oh so this is Jesus Christ, I am really quite surprised

  You look so small – not a king at all

  We all know that you are news – but are you king?

  King of the Jews?

  JESUS

  That's what you say

  PILATE

  What do you mean by that?

  That is not an answer

  You're deep in trouble friend -

  Someone Christ – King of the Jews

  How can someone in your state be so cool about your fate?

  An amazing thing – this silent king

  Since you come from Galilee then you need not come to me

  You're Herod's race! You're Herod's case!

  MOB

  Ho-ho Sanna Hey Sanna Sanna Sanna Ho

  Sanna Hey Sanna Ho and how

  Hey JC, JC please explain to me

  You had everything where is it now?

  King Herod's song (Try It And See).

  HEROD

  Jesus I am overjoyed to meet you face to face

  You've been getting quite a name all around the place

  Healing cripples, raising from the dead

  And now I understand you're God at least that's what you've said

  So you are the Christ you're the great Jesus Christ

  Prove to me that you're divine – change my water into wine

  That's all you need do end I'll know it's all true

  C'mon King of the Jews

  Jesus you just won't believe the hit you've made round here

  You are all we talk about the wonder of the year

  Oh what a pity if it's all a lie

  Still I'm sure that you can rock the cynics if you try

  So you are the Christ you're the great Jesus Christ

  Prove to me that you're no fool walk across my swimming pool

  If you do that for me then I'll let you go free

  C'man King of the Jews

  I only ask things I'd ask any superstar

  What is it that you have got that puts you where you are?

  I am waiting yes I'm a captive fan

  I am dying to be shown that you are not just any man

  So if you are the Christ yes the great Jesus Christ

  Feed my household with this bread – you can do it on your head

  Or has something gone wrong? Why do you take so long?

  C'mon King of the Jews

  Hey! Aren't you scared of me Christ? Mr. Wonderful Christ!

  You're a joke you're not the Lord – you're nothing but a fraud

  Take him away – he's got nothing to say!

  Get out you King of the Jews! Get out of my life!

  Judas' death.

  JUDAS

  My God! I saw him – he looked three-quarters dead!

  And he was so bad I had to turn my head

  You beat him so hard that he was bent and lame

  And I know who everybody's gonna blame

  I don't believe he knows I acted for our good

  I'd save him all this suffering if I could

  Don't believe ... our good ... save him ... if I could

  PRIEST 3

  Cut the confessions forget the excuses

  I don't understand why you're filled with remorse

  All that you've said has come true with a vengeance

  The mob turned against him – you backed the right horse

  CAIAPHAS

  What you have done will be the saving of Israel

  You'll be remembered forever for this

  And not only that you've been paid for your efforts

  Pretty good wages for one little kiss

  JUDAS

  Christ! I know you can't hear me

  But I only did what you wanted me to

  Christ! I'd sell out the nation

  For I have been saddled with the murder of you

  I have been spattered with innocent blood

  I shall be dragged through the slime and the mud

  I have been spattered with innocent blood

  I shall be dragged through the slime and the mud!

  I don't know how to love him.

  I don't know why he moves me

  He's a man – he's just a man

  He's not a king – he's just the same

  As anyone I know

  He scares me so

  When he's cold and dead will he let me be?

  Does he love me too? Does he care for me?

  My mind is darkness now – My God I am sick I've been used

  And you knew all the time

  God! I'll never ever know why you chose me for your crime

  For your foul bloody crime

  You have murdered me! You have murdered me!

  CHOIR

  Poor old Judas

  So long Judas

  Trial before Pilate.

  PILATE

  And so the king is once again my guest

  And why is this? Was Herod unimpressed?

  CAIAPHAS

  We turn to Rome to sentence Nazareth

  We have no law to put a man to death

  We need him crucified – it's all you have to do

  We need him crucified – it's all you have to do

  PILATE

  Talk to me Jesus Christ

  You have been brought here – manacled, beaten

  By your own people – do you have the first idea

  why you deserve it?

  Listen, King of the Jews

  Where is your kingdom?

  Look at me – am I a Jew?

  JESUS

  I have got no kingdom in this world -

  I'm through, through, through

  MOB

  Talk to me Jesus Christ

  JESUS

  There may be a kingdom for me somewhere – if I only knew

  PILATE

  Then you're a king?

  JESUS

  It's you that say I am

  I look for truth and find that I get damned

  PILATE

  But what is truth? Is truth unchanging law?

  We both have truths – are mine the same as yours?

  MOB

  Crucify him!

  PILATE

  What do you mean? You'd crucify your king?

  MOB

  We have no king but Caesar!

  PILATE

  He's done no wrong – no not the slightest thing

  MOB

  We have no king but Caesar! Crucify him!

  PILATE

  He's done no wrong – no not the slightest thing

  MOB

  We have no king but Caesar! Crucify him!

  PILATE

  I see no reason – I find no evil

  This man is harmless so why does he upset you?

  He's just misguided – thinks he's important

  But to keep you
vultures happy I shall flog him

  MOB

  Crucify him!

  (Thirty nine lashes)

  PILATE

  Where are you from Jesus?

  What do you want Jesus? Tell me

  You've got to be careful –

  You could be dead soon – could well be

  Why do you not speak when I have your life in my hands?

  How can you stay quiet? I don't believe you understand

  JESUS

  You have nothing in your hands

  Any power you have comes to you from far beyond

  Everything is fixed and you can't change it

  PILATE

  You're a fool Jesus Christ – how can I help you?

  MOB

  Pilate? Crucify him!

  Remember Caesar – you have a duty

  To keep the peace so crucify him!

  Remember Caesar – you'll be demoted, you'll be deported

  Crucify him!

  PILATE

  Don't let me stop your great self-destruction

  Die if you want to you misguided martyr

  I wash my hands of your demolition

  Die if you want to you innocent puppet!

  Superstar.

  VOICE OF 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

  Why'd you choose such a backward time and such a strange land?

  If you'd come today you would have reached a whole nation

  Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication

  Don't you get me wrong – I only want to know

  CHOIR

  Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ

  Who are you? What have you sacrificed?

  Jesus Christ Superstar

  Do you think you're what they say you are?

  VOICE OF JUDAS

  Tell me what you think about your friends at the top

  Who d'you think besides yourself's the pick of the crop?

  Buddah was he where it's at? Is he where you are?

  Could Mahomet move a mountain or was that just PR?

  Did you mean to die like that? Was that a mistake or

  Did you know your messy death would be a record-breaker?

  Don't you get me wrong – I only want to know

  CHOIR

  Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ

  Who are you? What have you sacrificed?

  Jesus Christ Superstar

  Do you think you're what they say you are?

  Crucifixion.

  JESUS

  God forgive them – they don't know what they're doing

  Who is my mother? Where is my mother?

  My God My Cod why have you forgotten me?

  I am thirsty

  It is finished

  Father into your hands I commend my spirit

  John Nineteen Forty-One.

  (Instrumental)

  [Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.]

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