Lord, my mind is so unsound-
the rest of me will soon follow;
they say I sold you out-
but Jesus Christ, that's not the whole story, is it?
To me you were just a carpenter
with ideas about the corruption of man;
and if there's one thing I know, it's corruption.
You rolled into town preaching up a storm-
a storm was coming, and it was you, dear God it was you-
and I always wanted to find something I thought I would die for:
you were it.
You were the one.
Things don't always go how you thought they would;
I swear I didn't know what they wanted to do to you,
but it doesn't matter now-
you looked at me like you were watching the sun go down for the last time-
and then you were gone.
This blood money has bought me one good hanging tree.
And as for my possessions;
my clothes can burn with my body-
the noose I leave to you.
You know me, Lord,
you know my way,
you know that I loved you,
within an inch of my life,
and I was loyal to a fault;
but I'm greedy as sin,
and it's cost us both so dearly-
it's done me in, in the end.
At least I wasn't Peter-
I never denied you anything.
Why do you think I chose to betray you with a kiss?