






                        Jesus CHRIST
                         Super STAR











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                          Overture
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                    Heaven On Their Mind
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 JUDAS
        My mind is clear now - at last all too well
        I can see where we all soon will be
        If you strip away the myth from the man
        You will see where we all soon will be
        Jesus! You've started to believe
        The things they say of you
        You really do believe
        This talk of God is true
        And all the good you've done
        Will soon get swept away
        You've begun to matter more
        Than the things you say
        Listen Jesus I don't like what I see
        All I ask is that you listen to me
        And remember - I've been your right hand man
                       all along
        You have set them all on fire
        They think they've found the new Messian
        And they'll hurt you when they find they're wrong.
        I remember when this whole thing began
        No talk of God then - we called you a man
        And believe me - my admiration for you hasn't died
        But every word you say today
        Gets twisted round some other way
        And they'll hurt you if they think you've lied
        Nazareth, your famous son should have stayed
                   a great unknown
        Like his father carving wood - he'd have made good
        Tables, chairs and oaken chests would have suited
                   Jesus best
        He have caused nobody harm - no one alarm
        Listen Jesus do you care for your race?
        Don't you see we must must keep in our place?
        We are occupied - have you forgotten how put down
                   we are?
        I am frightened by the crowd
        For we are getting much too loud
        And they'll crush us if we go too far
        Listen Jesus to the warning I give
        Please remember that I want us to live
        But it's sad to see our chances weakening with
                   every hour
        All your followers are blind
        Too much heaven on their minds
        It was beautiful but now it's sour
        Yes it's all gone sour


                       What's The Buzz
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                   (Bethany, Friday night)


 APOSTLES
        What's the buzz? Tell me what's happening

 JESUS
        Why should you want to know?
        Don't you mind about the future,
             don't you try to think ahead.
        Save tomorrow for tomorrow,
             think about today instead.

 APOSTLES
        What's the buzz? Tell me what's happening

 JESUS
        I could give you facts and figures -
        I could give you plans and forecasts.
        Even tell you where I'm going -

 APOSTLES
        When do we ride into Jerusalem?

 JESUS
        Why should you want to know?
        Why are you obsessed with fighting times and fates
               you can't defy?
        If you knew the path we're riding you'd understand it
               less than I

 APOSTLES
        What's the buzz? Tell me what's happening

 MARY MAGDALENE
        Let me try cool down your face a bit

 JESUS
        That feels nice, so nice...
        Mary that is good -
        While you prattle through your supper -
             where and when and who and how
        She alone has tried to give me
             what I need right here and now

 APOSTLES
        What's the buzz? Tell me what's happening


                  Strange Thing Mystifying
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 JUDAS
        It seems to me a strange thing, mystifying
        That a man like you can waste his time
                on women of her kind
        Yes I can understand that she amuses
        But to let her kiss you, stroke your hair,
                is hardly in your line
        It's not that I object to her profession
        But she doesn't fit in well with what you
                teach and say
        It doesn't help us if you're inconsistent
        They only need a small excuse to put us
                all away

 JESUS
        Who are you to criticise her? Who are you
                 to despise her?
        Leave her, leave her, let her be now
        Leave her, leave her, she's with me now
        If your slate is clean - then you can throw
                 stones
        If your slate is not then leave her alone
        I'm amazed that men like you can be so
                 shallow thick and slow
        There is not a man among you who knows
                 or cares if I come or go

 ALL (Save Judas)
        No you're wrong! You're very wrong!
        How can you say that?

 JESUS
        Not one - not one of you!


                    Everything's Alright
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 MARY MAGDALENE
        Try not to get worried, try not to turn on to
        Problems that upset you oh, don't you know
        Everything's alright, yes everything's fine
        And we want you to sleep well tonight
        Let the world turn without you tonight
        If we try we'll get by so forget all about us
                 tonight

 APOSTLES' WOMEN
        Everything's alright yes everything's alright yes

 MARY MAGDALENE
        Sleep and I shall southe you, calm you and anoint you
        Myrrh for your hot forehead oh then you'll feel
        Everything's alright yes everything's fine
        And it's cool and the ointment's sweet
        For the fire in your head and feet
        Close your eyes, close your eyes
        And relax think of nothing tonight

 APOSTLES' WOMEN
        Everything's alright yes everything's alright yes

 JUDAS
        Woman your fine ointment - brand new and expensive
        Could have been saved for the poor
        Why has it been wasted? We could have raised maybe
        Three hundred silver pieces or more
        People who are hungry, people who are starving
        Matter more than your feet and hair

 MARY MAGDALENE
        Try not to get worried, try not to turn on to
        Problems that upset you oh, don't you know
        Everything's alright, yes everything's fine
        And we want you to sleep well tonight
        Let the world turn without you tonight
        If we try we'll get by so forget all about us
                 tonight

 APOSTLES' WOMEN
        Everything's alright yes everything's alright yes

 JESUS
        Surely You're not saying we have the resources
        To save the poor from their lot?
        There will be poor always, pathetically struggling
        Look at the good things you've got!
        Think! while you still have me
        Move! while you still see me
        You'll be lost and you'll be so sorry when I'm gone

 MARY MAGDALENE
        Sleep and I shall soothe you, calm you and anoint you
        Myrrh for your hot forehead oh then you'll feel
        Everything's alright yes everything's fine
        And it's cool and the ointment's sweet
        For the fire in your head and feet
        Close your eyes close your eyes
        And relax think of nothing tonight
        Close your eyes, close your eyes and relax

 APOSTLES' WOMEN
        Everything's alright yes everything's alright yes


                     This Jesus Must Die
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                     (Jerusalem, Sunday)


 PRIEST 1
        Good Caiaphas the Council waits for you
        The Pharisees and Priests are here for you

 CAIAPHAS
        Ah, gentlemen - you know why we are here
        We've not much time and quite a problem here

 MOB (Outside)
        Hosanna Superstar !

 ANNAS
        Listen to that howling mob of blockheads in the street
        A trick or two with lepers and the whole town's on its feet

 ALL
        He is dangerous

 MOB (Outside)
        Jesus Christ Superstar -
        Tell us that you're who they say you are

 ALL
        He is dangerous

 PRIEST 2
        The man is in town right now to whip up some support

 PRIEST 3
        A rabble rousing mission that I think we must abort

 ALL
        He is dangerous!

 MOB (Outside)
        Jesus Christ Superstar!

 ALL
        He is dangerous!

 PRIEST 2
        Look Caiaphas - they're right outside our yard

 PRIEST 3
        Quick Caiaphas - go call the Roman guard

 CAIAPHAS
        No wait - we need a more permanent solution
                  to our problem...

 ANNAS
        What then to do about Jesus of Nazareth
        Miracle wonderman - hero of fools?

 PRIEST 3
        No riots, no army, no fighting, no slogans

 CAIAPHAS
        One thing I'll say for him - Jesus is cool

 ANNAS
        We dare not leave him to his own devices
        His half-witted fans will get out of control

 PRIEST 3
        But how can we stop him? His glamour increases
        By leaps every minute - he's top of the poll

 CAIAPHAS
        I see bad things arising - the crowd crown him King
        Which the Romans would ban
        I see blood and destruction,
        Our elimination because of one man
        Blood and destruction because of one man

 ALL
        Because, because, because of one man

 CAIAPHAS
         Our elimination because of one man

 ALL
        Because, because, because of one
        'cause of one, 'cause of one man

 PRIEST 3
        What then to do about this Jesusmania?

 ANNAS
        How do we deal with the carpenter King?

 PRIEST 3
        Where do we start with a man who is bigger
        Than John was when John did his Baptism thing?

 CAIAPHAS
        Fools! You have no perception!
        The stakes we are gambling are frighteningly high!
        We must crush him completely -
        So like John before him, this Jesus must die
        For the sake of the nation this Jesus must die

 ALL
        Must die, must die, this Jesus must die

 CAIAPHAS
        So like John before him, this Jesus must die

 ALL
        Must die, must die, this Jesus must, Jesus must,
        Jesus must die!




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                           Hosanna
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 CROWD
        Hosanna Heysanna Sanna Sanna Ho
        Sanna Hey Sanna Ho Sanna
        Hey JC, JC won't you smile at me?
        Sanna Ho Sanna Hey Superstar

 CAIAPHAS
        Tell the rabble to be quiet we anticipate a riot
             this common crowd is much too loud
        Tell the mob who sings your song that they are fools
             and they are wrong
        They are a curse, they should disperse

 CROWD
        Hosanna Heysanna Sanna Sanna Ho
        Sanna Hey Sanna Ho Sanna.
        Hey JC, JC you're alright by me
        Sanna Ho Sanna Hey Superstar

 JESUS
        Why waste your breath moaning at the crowd?
        Nothing can be done to stop the shouting
        if every tongue was still the noise would still continue
        the rocks and stones themselves would start to sing.

 CROWD (With Jesus)
        Hosanna Heysanna Sanna Sanna Ho
        Sanna Hey Sanna Ho Sanna.
        Hey JC, JC won't you fight for me?
        Sanna Ho Sanna Hey Superstar


                        Simon Zealots
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 CROWD
        Christ you know I love you
        Did you see I waved?
        I believe in you and God
        So tell me that I'm saved
        Christ you know I love you
        Did you see I waved?
        I believe in you and God
        So tell me that I'm saved
        Jesus I am with you
        Touch me touch me Jesus
        Jesus I am on your side
        Kiss me kiss me Jesus

 SIMON ZEALOTES
        Christ, what more do you need to convince you
        That you've made it and you're easily as strong
        As the filth from Rome who rape our country
        And who've terrorized our people for so long?

 CROWD
        Christ you know I love you
        Did you see I waved?
        I believe in you and God
        So tell me that I'm saved
        Christ you know I love you
        Did you see I waved?
        I believe in you and God
        So tell me that I'm saved
        Jesus I am with you
        Touch me touch me Jesus
        Jesus I am on your side
        Kiss me kiss me Jesus

 SIMON ZEALOTES
        There must be over fifty thousand
        Screaming love and more for you
        Everyone on fifty thousand
        Would do whatever you ask him to
        Keep them yelling their devotion
        But add a touch of hate at Rome
        You will rise to a greater power
        We will win ourselves a home
        You'll get the power and the glory
        For ever and ever and ever
        Amen! Amen!


                       Poor Jerusalem
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 JESUS
       Neither you Simon, nor the fifty thousand,
       Nor the Romans, nor the Jews,
       Nor Judas, nor the Twelve,
       Nor the Priests, nor the Scribes,
       Nor doomed Jerusalem itself
       Understand what power is
       Understand what glory is
       Understand at all... Understand at all
       If you knew all that I knew, my poor Jerusalem
       You'd see the truth, but you close your eyes
       But you close your eyes
       While you live your troubles are many, poor Jerusalem
       To conquer death you only have to die
       You only have to die.


                       Pilate's Dream
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              (Pontius Pilate's House, Monday)


 PILATE
        I dreamed I met a Galilean
        A most amazing man
        He had that look you very rarely find
        The haunting hunted kind.
        I asked him to say what had happened
        How it all began
        I asked again - he never said a word
        As if he hadn't heard
        And next the room was fool of wild and
                angry men
        They seemed to hate this man -
        They fell on him and then
        They disappeard again
        Then I saw thousands of millions
        Crying for this man
        And then I heard them mentioning my name
        And leaving me the blame.


                         The Temple
                         ----------


 MONEYLENDERS AND MERCHANTS
        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 your pick of the finest wine
        Lay your bets on this bird of mine
        Name your price I got everything
        Come and buy it's all going fast
        Borrow cash on the finest terms
        Hurry now while stocks still last

 JESUS
        My temple should be a house of prayer
        But you have made it a den of thieves
        Get 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

 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
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 MARY MAGDALENE
        Try not to get worried try not 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 your eyes
        And forget all about us tonight


                I Don't Know How To Love Him
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 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 this 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 through I'd come to this - what's it all about
        Don't you think it 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
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                          (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 unrewarted

 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 croud around him

 CAIAPHAS
        Then we can't fail


                         Blood Money
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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




                     S I D E   T H R E E
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                       The Last Supper
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                      (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 my
        One of you betrays me -

 APOSTLES
        Not I! Who would? Impossible!

 JESUS
        Peter will deny me in just a few hours
        Three times 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
        Hurry 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 out 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 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
        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)
                    --------------------
                (In The Garden Of Gethsemane)


 JESUS
        I only want to say
        If there is a way
        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 exeeded 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 for me
        Let them hate me hit me hurt me nail me to their tree
        I'd want know I'd want know my God
        I'd want see I'd want 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 see I'd have to see my Lord
        If I die what will be my revard?
        I'd have to know I'd have to know my Lord
        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 asleep - 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 finish 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 man 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
        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 see Caiaphas
        You'll just love the High Priest's house
        You'll just love seeing Caiaphas
        You'll just die in the High Priest's house
        Now we have him! Now we have get 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 have 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 thay took away
        I recognise your face

 PETER
        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 ever 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
                      -----------------

 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 and 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 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'mon 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 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 are 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!




                      S I D E   F O U R
                      -----------------


                         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 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
                  (Including the 39 lashes)
                  -------------------------


 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 truth - 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 Ceasar!

 PILATE
        He's done no wrong - no not the slightest thing

 MOB
        We have no King but Ceasar! Crucify him!

 PILATE
        He's done no wrong - no not the slightest thing

 MOB
        We have no King but Ceasar! 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!

                          39 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 speek 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 fool Jesus Christ - how can I help you?

 MOB
        Pilate! Crucify him!
        Remember Ceasar - you have a duty
        To keep the peace so crucify him!
        Remember Ceasar - you'll be denoted,
        You'll be deported crucify him!
        Crucify him!

 PRIEST
        Don't let me stop your great selfdestruction
        Die if you want to you misguided martyr
        I wash my hands on 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 B.C. 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?
        Buddha was he where it's at? Is he where you are?
        Could Mahomet move a mountain or was that just P.R.?
        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?


                      The Crucifiction
                      ----------------


 JESUS
        God forgive them - they don't know what they're doing
        Who is my mother? Where is my mother?
        My God My God why have you forgotten me?
        I am thirsty
        It is finished
        Father into your hands I commend my spirit




                                  John nineteen forty-one







      The opera was recorded at Olympic Sound Studios,
    Barnes Advision  Studios,  Island Studios  and  Spot
                     Production Studios.

