Karfreitag - Gethsemane aus Jesus Christ Superstar

Da es heute - am Karfreitag - so gut passt und weil ich mich auf die Tecklenburgsaison freue, wo diesen Sommer Jesus Christ Superstar gespielt wird (Leider auf deutsch, hoffentlich ohne Langhaarperrücke^^) mal der Fokus auf ein Lied...

Gethsemane aus Jesus Christ Superstar:

Das Lied singt "Jesus" kurz vor seiner Verhaftung und der darauf folgenden Kreuzigung.

Er hadert mit Gott und zweifelt, ob die Opferung seines Lebens notwendig ist. Er ist wütend und verzweifelt. Am Ende ergibt er sich aber in sein Schicksal und überlässt es Gott über sein Leben und seinen Tod zu entscheiden (Lyrics: s.u.).

Patrick Stanke bei der Sommernacht des Musicals 2010

(Das Video ist nicht von mir - ich hoffe es ist okay, das ich es hochlade... sollte jemand etwas dagegen haben, dann bitte melden!)

Hier ist noch ein besseres Video vom gleichen Auftritt, das man aber leider nicht einbinden kann.

Lyrics

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 exceeded
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 of me
Let them hate me, hit me, hurt me
Nail me to their tree
I'd want to know
I'd want to know my God
I'd want to know
I'd want to know my God
I'd want to see
I'd want to see my God
I'd want to see
I'd want to see my God
Why I should die
Would I be more noticed
Than I ever was 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 know
I'd have to know my Lord
I'd have to see
I'd have to see my Lord
I'd have to see
I'd have to see my Lord

If I die what will be my reward?
If I die what will be my reward?
I'd have to know
I'd have to know my Lord
I'd have to know
I'd have to know my Lord

Why, why should I die?
Oh, 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
But not so hot on why
Alright I'll die!
Just watch me die!
See how, see how I die!
Oh, just watch me 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 your cross and break me
Bleed me, beat me
Kill me, take me now
Before I change my mind