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Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, Brian Keith, Victor Brox - This Jesus Must Die (Remastered 2021)

This Jesus Must Die
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, Brian Keith, Victor Brox
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[Jerusalem, Sunday]

[Priest 1:]
Good Caiaphas, the council waits for you
The pharisees
And priests are here for you

[Caiaphas:]
Oh, gentlemen - you know why we are here
We've not much time
And quite a problem here

[Crowd (outside):]
Hosanna! Superstar!

[Annas:]
Listen to that howling mob
Of block heads in the street!
A trick or two with lepers
And the whole town's on it's feet

[All:]
He's dangerous!

[Crowd (outside):]
Jesus Christ superstar -

[All:]
He's dangerous!

[Crowd (outside):]
Tell us that you're who they say you are

[Priest 2:]
The man is in town right now
To whip up some support

[Priest 1:]
A rabble rousin mission
That I think we must abort

[All:]
He's dangerous!

[Crowd (outside):]
Jesus Christ superstar!

[All:]
He's dangerous!

[Priest 1:]
Look Caiaphas -
They're right outside our yard!

[Priest 2:]
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 1:]
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 1:]
But how can we stop him?
His glamour increases
By leaps every minute
He's top of the poll

[Caiaphas:]
I see bad things arisin - 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 2:]
What then to do about this jesusmania?

[Annas:]
How do we deal with the carpener king?

[Priest 2:]
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 gamblin
Are frighteningly high!
We must crush him completly -
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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