Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)

Carl Anderson: Judas Iscariot

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• Judas : [singing]  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...

• Judas : Every time I look at you I don't understand why you let the things you did get so out of hand? You'd've managed better if you'd had a plan. Now why'd you choose such a backwards time in such a strange land? If you'd come today you would've reached a whole nation. Israel in 4 B.C. had no mass communication.

• Judas : 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!

• Judas : Hey woman, your fine ointment, brand-new and expensive, should have been saved for the poor. Why has it been wasted? We could've raised maybe 300 silver pieces or more. People who are hungry, people who are starving, they matter more than your feet and hair.

• Judas : You sad pathetic man! See where you've brought us to? Our ideals die around us, and all because of you!

• Judas : I have no thought at all about my own reward, I really didn't come here on my own accord. Just don't say I'm damned for all time.

• Judas : On Thursday night, you'll find him where you want him, far from the crowd in the garden of Gethsemane...

  Choir : Well done, Judas... Good old Judas...

• Judas : 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... and I'd save him if I could!

  Annas : 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 : My mind... is in darkness! My God... God, I'm sick! I've been used! And you knew! You knew all the time! God, I will never know why you chose me for your crime! Your foul, bloody crime! My God, you have murdered me! Murdered me! Murdered me! Murdered me! Murdered me! Murdered...

  [hangs himself] 

  Choir : Poor old Judas... So long, Judas.

• Judas : Tell me what you think about your friends at the top! Now, who'd you think besides yourself was a pick of the crop? Buddha, was he where it's at? Is he where you are? Could Mohammed move a mountain, or was that just PR?

• Judas : 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... Does he love me too? Does he care for me?

• Judas : [singing]  Did you mean to die like that, was that a mistake? Or, did you know your messy death would be a record breaker?

  Angels Chorus : Don't you get me wrong.

  Judas : Don't you get me wrong.

  Angels Chorus : Don't you get me wrong.

  Judas : Don't you get me wrong.

  Angels Chorus : Don't you get me wrong.

  Judas : Don't you get me wrong.

  Angels Chorus : Don't you get me wrong.

  Judas : Don't you get me wrong.

  Angels Chorus : I only want to know.

  Judas : I only want to know.

  Angels Chorus : I only want to know.

  Judas : I only want to know.

  Angels Chorus : I only want to know.

  Judas : I only want to know.

  Angels Chorus : I only want to know.

  Judas : *I* only want to know!

• Judas : [to Jesus]  To think I admired you! Well, now I despise you!

• [first lines] 

  Judas : [singing]  My mind is clearer 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...

• Judas : [singing]  I shall be dragged through the slime and the slime and the slime and the mud!

• Judas : I don't want your blood money!

  Caiaphas : Oh that doesn't matter, our expenses are good.

  Judas : I don't NEED your blood money!

  Annas : But you might as well take it, we think that should.

  Caiaphas : Think of the things you could 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...

  Annas : A fee.

  Caiaphas : A fee nothing more.

• Judas : I have been spattered with innocent blood.