Annais:Good Caiaphas the council waits for you
the
pharisees and priest are here for you.
Caiaphas:Ah, gentlemen you know why we are
here,
we've not much time and quite a problem here.
Crowd: Hosanna Superstar, Hosanna
Superstar
Hosanna supterstar, Hosanna superstar
Annais: Listen to that howling mob of blockheads on
the street!
A trick or two with lepers and the whole town's on its
feet!
All Priests: He is dangerous!
Crowd:Jesus Christ! Superstar!
All Priests:He is dangerous!
Crowd: Tell us that you're who they say you are!
Priest: That rebel is in town right now to whip up some support.
Another Priest: A rabble rousing mission that I think we must abort!
All Priests: He is dangerous!
Crowd: Jesus Christ! Superstar!
All Priests: He is dangerous!
A different Priest: Look Caiaphas, they're
right outside our yard!
Quick Caiaphas, go call the Roman guard.
Caiaphas: No wait! We need a more permanent solution to our problem.
Annais: What then to do about Jesus of
Nazareth,
miracle wonderman, hero or fool?
A Priest, again: No riots, no armies, no fighting, no slogans.
Caiaphas: One thing I'll say for him Jesus is cool.
Annais: We dare not leave him to his own
devices,
his halfwitted fans will get out of control.
Another Priest: But how can we stop him?
Some Priest: His glamour increases!
Another of those Priests: By leaps every minute.
One More Priest: He's top of the poll.
Caiaphas: I see bad things arising!
The
crowd'd crown him king which the Roman's would ban.
I see blood and
destruction
our elimination because of one man.
Blood and destruction
because of one man.
All Priests: Because, because, because of one man.
Caiaphas: Our elimination because of one man.
All Priests: Because, because, because of one, 'cause of one, 'cause of one man.
Annais: What then to do about this Jesus Mania!
Oh how do we deal with a carpenter king?
Priest: Where do we start with a man who is bigger
Yet another different Priest: than John was when John did his baptism thing?
Caiaphas: Fools you have no perception!
The
stakes we are gambling are frightingly 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 Priests: Must die, must die, this Jesus must die.
Caiaphas: So like John before him this Jesus must die!
All Priests: Must die, must die, this Jesus must, Jesus must, Jesus must die.