Gethsemane (I Only Want To Say)

(IMHO this is probably THE most powerful piece in the entire show.  A true
perfect blend of Lloyd-Webber and Rice at their finest! This is a
difficult tune to put into ASCII, mainly because the bulk of the piece is
arranged orchestral, and even on piano it´s hard to capture the magic of
this work... here goes nothing... ad lib where deemed appropriate)

[in 4/4, Bb]

[verse]

  Bbm Bbm/Ab       Bbm/Gb Bbm/F
  I   only want to say

  Ebm      Ebm/Db  Ebm/C  Ebm/Bb
  If there is a    way

  Ab        Absus  Ab  Dbsus Db
  Take this cup    a - way   from me

      F       F+   F  Bbmsus Bbm           Gb
  For I don´t want to taste  its poison -- feel it burn me

  Bbm/F           C7                 F    F+ F7   F
  I have changed, I´m not as sure as when we started

  Bbm    Bbm/Ab   Bbm/Gb Bbm/F
  Then I was    inspired

  Ebm     Ebm/Db     Ebm/C Ebm/Bb
  Now I´m sad    and tired

  Ab      Absus  Ab Dbsus Db       F   F+  F
  Listen, sure - ly I´ve  exceeded expectations

  Bbmsus Bbm                Gb
  Tried  for three years -- seems like thirty

  Bbm/f            F                   Bbm
  Could you ask as much from any other man?

[sub-verse]

  Bbm Ab Gb F
  But if I  die

  Bbm          Ab                 Gb                F
  See the saga through and do the things you ask of me

  Bbm               Ab               Gb               F
  Let them hate me, hit me, hurt me, nail me to their tree

  Bbm                              Eb7
  I´d wanna know I´d wanna know my God   (x2)

  Bbm                            Eb7
  I´d wanna see I´d wanna see my God     (x2)

  Bbm Ab Gb     F
  Why I  should die

  Bbm             Ab             Gb       F
  Would I be more noticed than I ever was before?

  Bbm                   Ab            Gb         F
  Would the things I´ve said and done matter any more?

  Bbm                                  Eb7
  I´d have to know I´d have to know my Lord   (x2)

  Bbm                                Eb7
  I´d have to see I´d have to see my Lord     (x2)

[key change to C]

  Cm                        F7
  If I die what would be my reward?          (x2)

  Cm                                   F
  I´d have to know I´d have to know my Lord  (x2)

  Cm  Bb     Ab G     Cm  Bb     Ab G
  Why should I  die?  Why should I  die?

  Cm              Bb               Ab               G
  Can you show me now that I would not be killed in vain?

  Cm             Bb             Ab          G
  Show me just a little of your omnipresent brain

  Cm                Bb              Ab            G
  Show me there´s a reason for your wanting me to die

         Cm              Bb                Ab            G
  You´re far too keen on where and how and not so hot on why

[repeat Cm - Bb - Ab - G progression]

  Alright I´ll die!  Just watch me die!

  See how I die!  See how I die!


[Instrumental orchestra break in 5/8 -- Cm Bbsus Ab G]
[Break last round at Ab - Tacet - return to initial tempo in Cm]


  Cm     Cm/Bb   Cm/Ab   Cm/G  Fm      Fm/Eb     Fm/D  Fm/C
  Then I was   inspired,       now I´m sad   and tired

  Bb    Bbsus      Ebsus     Eb          G          G+  G
  After all,  I´ve tried for three years seems like ninety

  Cm            Ab               Cm/G
  Why then am I scared to finish what I started

  D7       D7-9       G
  What you started -- I didn´t start it

  Cm       Cm/Bb    Cm/Ab Cm/G      Fm       Fm/Eb  Fm/Eb  Fm/D  Fm7/C
  God, thy will  is hard        but you hold every  card

  Bb     Bbsus      Ebsus  Eb
  I will drink your cup of poison

  G       G+ G    Cm                  Ab
  Nail me to your cross and break me, bleed me, beat me

  Cm/G               G7    G+   G7 G7sus  G7 Ab    Fm  G7sus  Cm
  Kill me -- take me now before I  change my mind