Judas Priest

It questions the way Jesus died

And what's been considered gospel for nearly 2,000 years

Was judas iscariot one of the 12 disciples

With Jesus in his final days, really a traitor?

Or, was he the favorite disciple

Given a secret, as part of a divine plan?

(The gospel of judas is, is a real surprise)

(It pictures judas, not as the worst villain in the history of the world)

(As he's, always been thought of in christian tradition)

(But as the one disciple, whom Jesus entrusts with secret understanding)

That secret understanding say scholars

Is contained in these writings from 300 a.d.

And referred to by researchers

As the gospel of judas

So I ran... With nowhere to go

Through the streets of galilee these faces I don't know

These people all look angry - do they know I killed their god?

For 30 coins of silver I devised the sickest plot

Pontius pilate washed his hands goodbye of this so caiaphas

And I devised a plan, sold chris out with a biased kiss

I'm just trying to get away, he's dying it's my fault

Was he a lunatic? Was he the son of god?

As they took him away on that day, heard paul and peter say

"It's you who did betray," I guess it was my fate

Christ was whipped and beaten mocked by people on the hill

Now everyone is quiet cause they know our savior has been killed

I went to calvary, he was hangin from the cross

Crown of thorns upon his head, hope was tossed away and lost

But he looked at me and the final thing he said

Was "I forgive you judas," closed his eyes and he was dead

Golgotha! They put my homey on a cross

Golgotha! Right now I feel all could be lost

Golgotha! Was only doing what you said

Now these people are all talking, they say Jesus chris is dead

[Chorus: Repeat 2x]

Golgotha! I know not why I do!!!

This thing you asked me to!!!

Golgotha! Upon the cross you lie!!!

To show you can not die!!!

[Mc lars]

Judas priest, I wrote a book about it, never made the bible

And they say my story's libel I've been feeling suicidal

But the devil's hands are idle and they have nothing to do

With this hell on earth I'm living in, the stuff that I've been through

Looking for a place of comfort somewhere deep inside

Ever since my friend died, all I want to do is hide

All I want to do is die, tell me why am I so vilified?

Why am I so ostracized? There were 11 other guys

Synoptic gospels, only three of them explain

Matthew, mark and luke's account of what happened that day

But I knew Jesus christ, I knew him very well

He sent me on a mission some might say would lead to hell

I went to calvary - christ was dying on the hill

I went to calvary - everybody stood real still

I went to calvary - to see if it was true

The plan he made went through, what he asked me to do

I went to calvary, he was hanging from the cross

Crown of thorns upon his head, hope was not lost

He looked at me and the final thing he said

Was "I forgive you judas," closed his eyes and he was dead

[Chorus]

[Repeat 2x]

Golgotha! So there's nothing more to say

Golgotha! When it all seems done I'll say

Golgotha! Christ you were a lunatic

Golgotha! Were you just a lunatic?

[Outro]

Christ you were a lunatic

Just a lunatic