The Last Supper Lyrics

[APOSTLES]
Not I! Who could? 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're 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 wanna 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 die

[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 cut of all:
Someone has to turn you in
Like a common criminal, like a wounded animal
Like a jaded mandarin
A jaded mandarin
A jaded faded jaded faded jaded mandarin

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Genius Annotation

In this song the apostles and Jesus are sharing their last meal together in Gethsemane.
Jesus gives them bread ( his ‘body’) and wine (his ‘blood’); then predicts that Peter will deny him and Judas will betray him. It ends with a shouting match between Judas and Jesus, and the former leaves.

Jesus shares, in a wrenching moment, his obsession with his heritage and the idea of being remembered almost as if praying to be immortal.

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