- Easy to Rule

[CLAUDIA]
(spoken)
You're being terribly bad, Pontius.
Why, you're just a governor. You couldn't rule Rome.

[PILATE]
(spoken)
Yeah, I guess you're right.
Me ruling Rome, what am I thinking?

(sung)
I know too well that I'm
Just wasting precious time
In thinking such a thing could be
That Rome could have a king like me.
I'm sure they hate to hear
That Caesar's past his year
But grant me, just the same,
I'm not entirely to blame, for...
Rome'd be, so easy to rule
So easy to be king, of all of the pool,
So sweet to run it all,
So nice, and so worth the fall.
I'd be so grand at the game,
So happy we'd all be, that it does seem a shame
That Rome can't see
A future with me
'Cause it'd be, oh, so easy to rule...

(dance interlude)

Rome'd be, so easy to rule
So easy to be king, of all of the pool,
So worth the gov'ning for, 12
So swell to finally leave Caesera for.
Oh, how we'd bloom, how we'd thrive
Set up palaces two, or even three, four or five,
So please, Rome see
A future with me
'Cause it'd be, oh, so easy to rule...

[CLAUDIA]
(spoken)
Pontius, this is all wrong. Caesar is my uncle, and he's in charge. Nothing can change that!

[PILATE]
(spoken)
You can change that. All you have to do is say -

[CLAUDIA]
(spoken)
No! No one knows what happened with that Nazareth, so be glad for that and don't hold on to false dreams!

[PILATE]
(spoken)
You know I'm right, Claudia!

(exits)

[CLAUDIA]
(sung)
'Cause Rome'd be, oh, so easy to rule...