[The crowd parts to reveal that the cart has crashed, trapping Monsieur Fauchelevant]
[VOICES]
Look at that!
Look at that!
It's Monsieur Fauchelevant!
Don't approach! Don't go near!
At the risk of your life!
He is caught by the wheel!
Oh, the pitiful man!
Stay away, Turn away!
There is nothing to do!
There is nothing to do!
[VALJEAN]
Is there anyone here
Who will rescue the man?
Who will help me to shoulder
The weight of the cart?
[VOICES]
Don't go near him, Mr. Mayor
The load is heavy as hell
The old man's a goner for sure
It'll kill you as well.
[Valjean attempts to lift the cart... but fails. He tries again. They manage to pull Fauchelevant clear]
[FAUCHELEVANT]
M'sieur le Mayor, I have no words
You come from God, you are a saint.
[Javert takes Valjean aside]
[JAVERT]
Can this be true?
I don't believe what I see!
A man your age
To be as strong as you are!
A mem'ry stirs...
You make me think of a man
From years ago
A man who broke his parole
He disappeared
Forgive me, Sir,
I would not dare!
[VALJEAN]
Say what you must
Don't leave it there...
[JAVERT]
I have only known one other
Who can do what you have done
He's a convict from the chain gang
He's been ten years on the run
But he couldn't run forever
We have found his hideaway
And he's just been re-arrested
And he comes to court today.
Well, of course he now denies it
You'd expect that of a `con'
But he couldn't run forever -
No, not even Jean Valjean!
[VALJEAN]
You say this man denies it all
And gives no sign of understanding or repentance?
You say this man is going to trial
And that's he's sure to be returned
To serve his sentence?
Come to that, can you be sure,
That I am not your man?
[JAVERT]
I have known the thief for ages
Tracked him down through thick and thin
And to make the matter certain
There's the brand upon his skin
He will bend, he will break
This time there is no mistake.
[Javert leaves. Valjean is alone]
Les Miserables Musical Album Lyrics
Les Miserables Musical Lyrics
- Les Miserables Cast - The Runaway Cart
- Les Miserables Cast - Overture / Work Song / Look Down
- Les Miserables Cast - Valjean Arrested/Valjean Forgiven
- Les Miserables Cast - What Have I Done?
- Les Miserables Cast - At the End of the Day
- Les Miserables Cast - I Dreamed a Dream
- Les Miserables Cast - Lovely Ladies
- Les Miserables Cast - Who Am I?
- Les Misérables Cast - Fantine's Arrest + Come to Me (Fantine's Death)
- Les Miserables Cast - Confrontation
- Les Miserables Cast - Castle on a Cloud
- Les Miserables Cast - Master of the House
- Les Miserables Cast - The Thenardier Waltz of Treachery
- Les Miserables Cast - Look Down
- Les Miserables Cast - Stars
- Les Miserables Cast - Red and Black - The ABC Cafe
- Les Miserables Cast - Do You Hear the People Sing?
- Les Miserables Cast - In My Life
- Les Miserables Cast - A Heart Full of Love
- Les Miserables Cast - Plumet Attack
- Les Miserables Cast - One Day More!
- Les Miserables Cast - AT THE BARRICADE
- Les Misérables Cast - On My Own
- Les Miserables Cast - Upon These Stones / Building the Barricade
- Les Miserables Cast - Javert at the Barricade/Little People
- Les Miserables Cast - The First Attack
- Les Miserables Cast - A Little Fall of Rain
- Les Miserables Cast - The night / Drink With Me
- Les Miserables Cast - Bring Him Home
- Les Miserables Cast - Dog Eats Dog
- Les Misérables Cast - Javert's Suicide
- Les Miserables Cast - Turning
- Les Miserables Cast - Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
- Les Miserables Cast - Wedding Chorale/Beggars at the Feast
- Les Miserables Cast - Finale
- Les Miserables Cast - The Bargain
- Les Miserables Cast - The Robbery
- Les Misérables Cast - Javert's Intervention
- Les Misérables Cast - Eponine'e Errand
- Les Misérables Cast - Javert's Arrival
- Les Miserables Cast - Night Of Anguish
- Les Misérables Cast - The Second Attack (Death Of Gavroche)
- Les Miserables Cast - The Final Battle
- Les Misérables Cast - Valjean's Confession
- Les Miserables Cast - Everyday
- Les Miserables Cast - Finale 2
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Overture / Work Song / Look Down
by Les Miserables Cast
[PRISONERS]
Look down, look down
Don't look 'em in the eye
Look down, look down,
You're here until you die
[CONVICT ONE]
The sun is strong
It's hot as hell below
[PRISONER]
Look down, look down,
There's twenty years to go
[CONVICT TWO]
I've done no wrong!
Sweet Jesus, hear my prayer!
[PRISONERS]
Look down look down,
Sweet Jesus doesn't care
[CONVICT THREE]
I know she'll wait,
I know that she'll be true!
[PRISONERS]
Look down, look down,
They've all forgotten you
[CONVICT FOUR]
When I get free ya won't see me
Here for dust!
[PRISONERS]
Look down, look down
Don't look 'em in the eye
[CONVICT FIVE]
How long, oh Lord
Before you let me die?
[PRISONERS]
Look down, look down,
You'll always be a slave
Look down, look down,
You're standing in your grave
[JAVERT]
Now bring me prisoner 24601
Your time is up
And your parole's begun
You know what that means.
[VALJEAN]
Yes, it means I'm free.
[JAVERT]
No!
It means you get
Your yellow ticket-of-leave
You are a thief
[VALJEAN]
I stole a loaf of bread.
[JAVERT]
You robbed a house.
[VALJEAN]
I broke a window pane.
My sister's child was close to death
And we were starving.
[JAVERT]
You will starve again
Unless you learn the meaning of the law.
[VALJEAN]
I know the meaning of those 19 years
A slave of the law
[JAVERT]
Five years for what you did
The rest because you tried to run
Yes, 24601.
[VALJEAN]
My name is Jean Valjean
[JAVERT]
And I am Javert
Do not forget my name!
Do not forget me,
24601.
[PRISONERS]
Look down, look down
You'll always be a slave
Look down, look down
You're standing in your grave.
[VALJEAN]
Freedom is mine. The earth is still.
I feel the wind. I breathe again.
And the sky clears
The world is waking.
Drink from the pool. How clean the taste.
Never forget the years, the waste.
Nor forgive them
For what they've done.
They are the guilty - everyone.
The day begins...
And now lets see
What this new world
Will do for me!
[He finds work on a farm]
[FARMER]
You'll have to go
I'll pay you off for the day
Collect your bits and pieces there
And be on your way.
[VALJEAN]
You have given me half
What the other men get!
This handful of tin
Wouldn't buy my sweat!
[LABORER]
You broke the law
It's there for people to see
Why should you get the same
As honest men like me?
[VALJEAN]
Now every door is closed to me
Another jail. Another key. Another chain
For when I come to any town
They check my papers
And they find the mark of Cain
In their eyes I see their fear
`We do not want you here.'
[He comes to an inn]
[INKEEPER'S WIFE]
My rooms are full
And I've no supper to spare
I'd like to help a stranger
All we want is to be fair
[VALJEAN]
I will pay in advance
I can sleep in a barn
You see how dark it is
I'm not some kind of dog!
[INNKEEPER]
You leave my house
Or feel the weight of my rod
We're law-abiding people here
Thanks be to God.
[They throw him out of the inn]
[VALJEAN]
And now I know how freedom feels
The jailer always at your heels
It is the law!
This piece of paper in my hand
That makes me cursed throughout the land
It is the law!
Like a cur
I walk the street,
The dirt beneath their feet.
[He sits down despairingly outside a house from which emerges the Bishop of Digne.]
[BISHOP]
Come in, Sir, for you are weary,
And the night is cold out there.
Though our lives are very humble
What we have, we have to share.
There is wine here to revive you.
There is bread to make you strong,
There's a bed to rest till morning,
Rest from pain, and rest from wrong.
[VALJEAN]
He let me eat my fill
I had the lion's share
The silver in my hand
Cost twice what I had earned
In all those nineteen years -
That lifetime of despair
And yet he trusted me.
The old fool trusted me -
He'd done his bit of good
I played the grateful serf
And thanked him like I should
But when the house was still,
I got up in the night.
Took the silver
Took my flight!
[Taking the silver cup, he runs off, but is brought back by two constables]
Look down, look down
Don't look 'em in the eye
Look down, look down,
You're here until you die
[CONVICT ONE]
The sun is strong
It's hot as hell below
[PRISONER]
Look down, look down,
There's twenty years to go
[CONVICT TWO]
I've done no wrong!
Sweet Jesus, hear my prayer!
[PRISONERS]
Look down look down,
Sweet Jesus doesn't care
[CONVICT THREE]
I know she'll wait,
I know that she'll be true!
[PRISONERS]
Look down, look down,
They've all forgotten you
[CONVICT FOUR]
When I get free ya won't see me
Here for dust!
[PRISONERS]
Look down, look down
Don't look 'em in the eye
[CONVICT FIVE]
How long, oh Lord
Before you let me die?
[PRISONERS]
Look down, look down,
You'll always be a slave
Look down, look down,
You're standing in your grave
[JAVERT]
Now bring me prisoner 24601
Your time is up
And your parole's begun
You know what that means.
[VALJEAN]
Yes, it means I'm free.
[JAVERT]
No!
It means you get
Your yellow ticket-of-leave
You are a thief
[VALJEAN]
I stole a loaf of bread.
[JAVERT]
You robbed a house.
[VALJEAN]
I broke a window pane.
My sister's child was close to death
And we were starving.
[JAVERT]
You will starve again
Unless you learn the meaning of the law.
[VALJEAN]
I know the meaning of those 19 years
A slave of the law
[JAVERT]
Five years for what you did
The rest because you tried to run
Yes, 24601.
[VALJEAN]
My name is Jean Valjean
[JAVERT]
And I am Javert
Do not forget my name!
Do not forget me,
24601.
[PRISONERS]
Look down, look down
You'll always be a slave
Look down, look down
You're standing in your grave.
[VALJEAN]
Freedom is mine. The earth is still.
I feel the wind. I breathe again.
And the sky clears
The world is waking.
Drink from the pool. How clean the taste.
Never forget the years, the waste.
Nor forgive them
For what they've done.
They are the guilty - everyone.
The day begins...
And now lets see
What this new world
Will do for me!
[He finds work on a farm]
[FARMER]
You'll have to go
I'll pay you off for the day
Collect your bits and pieces there
And be on your way.
[VALJEAN]
You have given me half
What the other men get!
This handful of tin
Wouldn't buy my sweat!
[LABORER]
You broke the law
It's there for people to see
Why should you get the same
As honest men like me?
[VALJEAN]
Now every door is closed to me
Another jail. Another key. Another chain
For when I come to any town
They check my papers
And they find the mark of Cain
In their eyes I see their fear
`We do not want you here.'
[He comes to an inn]
[INKEEPER'S WIFE]
My rooms are full
And I've no supper to spare
I'd like to help a stranger
All we want is to be fair
[VALJEAN]
I will pay in advance
I can sleep in a barn
You see how dark it is
I'm not some kind of dog!
[INNKEEPER]
You leave my house
Or feel the weight of my rod
We're law-abiding people here
Thanks be to God.
[They throw him out of the inn]
[VALJEAN]
And now I know how freedom feels
The jailer always at your heels
It is the law!
This piece of paper in my hand
That makes me cursed throughout the land
It is the law!
Like a cur
I walk the street,
The dirt beneath their feet.
[He sits down despairingly outside a house from which emerges the Bishop of Digne.]
[BISHOP]
Come in, Sir, for you are weary,
And the night is cold out there.
Though our lives are very humble
What we have, we have to share.
There is wine here to revive you.
There is bread to make you strong,
There's a bed to rest till morning,
Rest from pain, and rest from wrong.
[VALJEAN]
He let me eat my fill
I had the lion's share
The silver in my hand
Cost twice what I had earned
In all those nineteen years -
That lifetime of despair
And yet he trusted me.
The old fool trusted me -
He'd done his bit of good
I played the grateful serf
And thanked him like I should
But when the house was still,
I got up in the night.
Took the silver
Took my flight!
[Taking the silver cup, he runs off, but is brought back by two constables]
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Valjean Arrested/Valjean Forgiven
by Les Miserables Cast
[CONSTABLE ONE]
Tell his reverence your story
[CONSTABLE TWO]
Let us see if he's impressed
[CONSTABLE ONE]
You were lodging here last night
[CONSTABLE TWO]
You were the honest Bishop's guest.
[CONSTABLE ONE]
And then, out of Christian goodness
[CONSTABLE TWO]
When he learned about your plight
[CONSTABLE ONE]
You maintain he made a present of this silver.
[BISHOP]
That is right.
But my friend you left so early
Surely something slipped your mind
[The bishop gives Valjean two silver candlesticks]
You forgot I gave these also;
Would you leave the best behind?
So, Messieurs, you may release him
For this man has spoken true.
I commend you for your duty
And God's blessing go with you.
[The constables leave.]
And remember this, my brother,
See in this some high plan.
You must use this precious silver
To become an honest man.
By the witness of the martyrs,
By the passion and the blood,
God has raised you out of darkness:
I have bought your soul for God.
Tell his reverence your story
[CONSTABLE TWO]
Let us see if he's impressed
[CONSTABLE ONE]
You were lodging here last night
[CONSTABLE TWO]
You were the honest Bishop's guest.
[CONSTABLE ONE]
And then, out of Christian goodness
[CONSTABLE TWO]
When he learned about your plight
[CONSTABLE ONE]
You maintain he made a present of this silver.
[BISHOP]
That is right.
But my friend you left so early
Surely something slipped your mind
[The bishop gives Valjean two silver candlesticks]
You forgot I gave these also;
Would you leave the best behind?
So, Messieurs, you may release him
For this man has spoken true.
I commend you for your duty
And God's blessing go with you.
[The constables leave.]
And remember this, my brother,
See in this some high plan.
You must use this precious silver
To become an honest man.
By the witness of the martyrs,
By the passion and the blood,
God has raised you out of darkness:
I have bought your soul for God.
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
What Have I Done?
by Les Miserables Cast
[VALJEAN]
What have I done?
Sweet Jesus, what have I done?
Become a thief in the night,
Become a dog on the run
And have I fallen so far,
And is the hour so late
That nothing remains but the cry of my hate,
The cries in the dark that nobody hears,
Here where I stand at the turning of the years?
If there's another way to go
I missed it twenty long years ago
My life was a war that could never be won
They gave me a number and murdered Valjean
When they chained me and left me for dead
Just for stealing a mouthful of bread
Yet why did I allow that man
To touch my soul and teach me love?
He treated me like any other
He gave me his trust
He called me brother
My life he claims for God above
Can such things be?
For I had come to hate the world
This world that always hated me
Take an eye for an eye!
Turn your heart into stone!
This is all I have lived for!
This is all I have known!
One word from him and I'd be back
Beneath the lash, upon the rack
Instead he offers me my freedom
I feel my shame inside me like a knife
He told me that I had a soul,
How does he know?
What spirit comes to move my life?
Is there another way to go?
I am reaching, but I fall
And the night is closing in
As I stare into the void
To the whirlpool of my sin
I'll escape now from the world
From the world of Jean Valjean
Jean Valjean is nothing now
Another story must begin!
[He tears up his yellow ticket-of-leave]
What have I done?
Sweet Jesus, what have I done?
Become a thief in the night,
Become a dog on the run
And have I fallen so far,
And is the hour so late
That nothing remains but the cry of my hate,
The cries in the dark that nobody hears,
Here where I stand at the turning of the years?
If there's another way to go
I missed it twenty long years ago
My life was a war that could never be won
They gave me a number and murdered Valjean
When they chained me and left me for dead
Just for stealing a mouthful of bread
Yet why did I allow that man
To touch my soul and teach me love?
He treated me like any other
He gave me his trust
He called me brother
My life he claims for God above
Can such things be?
For I had come to hate the world
This world that always hated me
Take an eye for an eye!
Turn your heart into stone!
This is all I have lived for!
This is all I have known!
One word from him and I'd be back
Beneath the lash, upon the rack
Instead he offers me my freedom
I feel my shame inside me like a knife
He told me that I had a soul,
How does he know?
What spirit comes to move my life?
Is there another way to go?
I am reaching, but I fall
And the night is closing in
As I stare into the void
To the whirlpool of my sin
I'll escape now from the world
From the world of Jean Valjean
Jean Valjean is nothing now
Another story must begin!
[He tears up his yellow ticket-of-leave]
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
At the End of the Day
by Les Miserables Cast
[1823, Montreuil-sur-Mer.]
[Outside the factory owned by the Mayor,]
[Monsieur Madeleine (Jean Valjean in disguise).]
[THE POOR]
At the end of the day you're another day older
And that's all you can say for the life of the poor
It's a struggle, it's a war
And there's nothing that anyone's giving
One more day standing about, what is it for?
One day less to be living.
At the end of the day you're another day colder
And the shirt on your back doesn't keep out the chill
And the righteous hurry past
They don't hear the little ones crying
And the winter is coming on fast, ready to kill
One day nearer to dying!
At the end of the day there's another day dawning
And the sun in the morning is waiting to rise
Like the waves crash on the sand
Like a storm that'll break any second
There's a hunger in the land
There's a reckoning still to be reckoned and
There's gonna be hell to pay
At the end of the day!
[The foreman and workers, including Fantine, emerge from the factory]
[FOREMAN]
At the end of the day you get nothing for nothing
Sitting flat on your butt doesn't buy any bread
[WORKER ONE]
There are children back at home
[WORKERS ONE AND TWO]
And the children have got to be fed
[WORKER TWO]
And you're lucky to be in a job
[WOMAN]
And in a bed!
[WORKERS]
And we're counting our blessings!
[WOMAN TWO]
Have you seen how the foreman is fuming today?
With his terrible breath and his wandering hands?
[WOMAN THREE]
It's because little Fantine won't give him his way
[WOMAN ONE]
Take a look at his trousers, you'll see where he stands!
[WOMAN FOUR]
And the boss, he never knows
That the foreman is always in heat
[WOMAN THREE]
If Fantine doesn't look out
Watch how she goes
She'll be out on the street!
[WORKERS]
At the end of the day it's another day over
With enough in your pocket to last for a week
Pay the landlord, pay the shop
Keep on grafting as long as you're able
Keep on grafting till you drop
Or it's back to the crumbs off the table
You've got to pay your way
At the end of the day!
[GIRL (Grabbing a letter from Fantine)]
And what have we here, little innocent sister?
Come on Fantine, let's have all the news!
[Reading the letter]
Ooh..."Dear Fantine you must send us more money...
Your child needs a doctor...
There's no time to lose..."
[FANTINE]
Give that letter to me
It is none of your business
With a husband at home
And a bit on the side!
Is there anyone here
Who can swear before God
She has nothing to fear?
She has nothing to hide?
[They fight over the letter. Valjean (M. Madeleine) rushes on to break up the squabble.]
[VALJEAN]
What is this fighting all about?
Will someone tear these two apart
This is a factory, not a circus!
Now, come on ladies, settle down
I run a business of repute
I am the Mayor of this town
[To the foreman]
I look to you to sort this out
And be as patient as you can-
[He goes back into the factory]
[FOREMAN]
Now someone say how this began!
[GIRL]
At the end of the day
She's the one who began it!
There's a kid that she's hiding
In some little town
There's a man she has to pay
You can guess how she picks up the extra
You can bet she's earning her keep
Sleeping around
And the boss wouldn't like it!
[FANTINE]
Yes it's true there's a child
And the child is my daughter
And her father abandoned us
Leaving us flat
Now she lives with an innkeeper man
And his wife
And I pay for the child
What's the matter with that?
[WOMEN]
At the end of the day
She'll be nothing but trouble
And there's trouble for all
When there's trouble for one!
While we're earning our daily bread
She's the one with her hands in the butter
You must send the slut away
Or we're all gonna end in the gutter
And it's us who'll have to pay
At the end of the day!
[FOREMAN]
I might have known the bitch could bite
I might have known the cat had claws
I might have guessed your little secret
Ah yes, the virtuous Fantine
Who keeps herself so pure and clean
You'd be the cause I had no doubt
Of any trouble hereabout
You play a virgin in the light
But need no urgin' in the night.
[GIRL]
She's been laughing at you
While she's having her men
[WOMEN]
She'll be nothing but trouble again and again
[WOMAN]
You must sack her today
[WORKERS]
Sack the girl today!
[FOREMAN]
Right my girl. On your way!
[Outside the factory owned by the Mayor,]
[Monsieur Madeleine (Jean Valjean in disguise).]
[THE POOR]
At the end of the day you're another day older
And that's all you can say for the life of the poor
It's a struggle, it's a war
And there's nothing that anyone's giving
One more day standing about, what is it for?
One day less to be living.
At the end of the day you're another day colder
And the shirt on your back doesn't keep out the chill
And the righteous hurry past
They don't hear the little ones crying
And the winter is coming on fast, ready to kill
One day nearer to dying!
At the end of the day there's another day dawning
And the sun in the morning is waiting to rise
Like the waves crash on the sand
Like a storm that'll break any second
There's a hunger in the land
There's a reckoning still to be reckoned and
There's gonna be hell to pay
At the end of the day!
[The foreman and workers, including Fantine, emerge from the factory]
[FOREMAN]
At the end of the day you get nothing for nothing
Sitting flat on your butt doesn't buy any bread
[WORKER ONE]
There are children back at home
[WORKERS ONE AND TWO]
And the children have got to be fed
[WORKER TWO]
And you're lucky to be in a job
[WOMAN]
And in a bed!
[WORKERS]
And we're counting our blessings!
[WOMAN TWO]
Have you seen how the foreman is fuming today?
With his terrible breath and his wandering hands?
[WOMAN THREE]
It's because little Fantine won't give him his way
[WOMAN ONE]
Take a look at his trousers, you'll see where he stands!
[WOMAN FOUR]
And the boss, he never knows
That the foreman is always in heat
[WOMAN THREE]
If Fantine doesn't look out
Watch how she goes
She'll be out on the street!
[WORKERS]
At the end of the day it's another day over
With enough in your pocket to last for a week
Pay the landlord, pay the shop
Keep on grafting as long as you're able
Keep on grafting till you drop
Or it's back to the crumbs off the table
You've got to pay your way
At the end of the day!
[GIRL (Grabbing a letter from Fantine)]
And what have we here, little innocent sister?
Come on Fantine, let's have all the news!
[Reading the letter]
Ooh..."Dear Fantine you must send us more money...
Your child needs a doctor...
There's no time to lose..."
[FANTINE]
Give that letter to me
It is none of your business
With a husband at home
And a bit on the side!
Is there anyone here
Who can swear before God
She has nothing to fear?
She has nothing to hide?
[They fight over the letter. Valjean (M. Madeleine) rushes on to break up the squabble.]
[VALJEAN]
What is this fighting all about?
Will someone tear these two apart
This is a factory, not a circus!
Now, come on ladies, settle down
I run a business of repute
I am the Mayor of this town
[To the foreman]
I look to you to sort this out
And be as patient as you can-
[He goes back into the factory]
[FOREMAN]
Now someone say how this began!
[GIRL]
At the end of the day
She's the one who began it!
There's a kid that she's hiding
In some little town
There's a man she has to pay
You can guess how she picks up the extra
You can bet she's earning her keep
Sleeping around
And the boss wouldn't like it!
[FANTINE]
Yes it's true there's a child
And the child is my daughter
And her father abandoned us
Leaving us flat
Now she lives with an innkeeper man
And his wife
And I pay for the child
What's the matter with that?
[WOMEN]
At the end of the day
She'll be nothing but trouble
And there's trouble for all
When there's trouble for one!
While we're earning our daily bread
She's the one with her hands in the butter
You must send the slut away
Or we're all gonna end in the gutter
And it's us who'll have to pay
At the end of the day!
[FOREMAN]
I might have known the bitch could bite
I might have known the cat had claws
I might have guessed your little secret
Ah yes, the virtuous Fantine
Who keeps herself so pure and clean
You'd be the cause I had no doubt
Of any trouble hereabout
You play a virgin in the light
But need no urgin' in the night.
[GIRL]
She's been laughing at you
While she's having her men
[WOMEN]
She'll be nothing but trouble again and again
[WOMAN]
You must sack her today
[WORKERS]
Sack the girl today!
[FOREMAN]
Right my girl. On your way!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
I Dreamed a Dream
by Les Miserables Cast
[Fantine is left alone, unemployed and destitute]
[FANTINE]
There was a time when men were kind
When their voices were soft
And their words inviting
There was a time when love was blind
And the world was a song
And the song was exciting
There was a time
Then it all went wrong
I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high
And life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted
But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
As they turn your dream to shame
He slept a summer by my side
He filled my days with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn came
And still I dream he'll come to me
That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather
I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
[FANTINE]
There was a time when men were kind
When their voices were soft
And their words inviting
There was a time when love was blind
And the world was a song
And the song was exciting
There was a time
Then it all went wrong
I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high
And life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted
But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
As they turn your dream to shame
He slept a summer by my side
He filled my days with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn came
And still I dream he'll come to me
That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather
I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Lovely Ladies
by Les Miserables Cast
[SAILOR ONE]
I smell women
Smell 'em in the air
Think I'll drop my anchor
In that harbor over there
[SAILOR TWO]
Lovely ladies
Smell 'em through the smoke
Seven days at sea
Can make you hungry for a poke
[SAILOR THREE]
Even stokers need a little stoke!
[WOMEN]
Lovely ladies
Waiting for a bite
Waiting for the customers
Who only come at night
Lovely ladies
Ready for the call
Standing up or lying down
Or any way at all
Bargain prices up against the wall
[OLD WOMAN]
Come here, my dear
Let's see this trinket you wear
This bagatelle...
[FANTINE]
Madame, I'll sell it to you...
[OLD WOMAN]
I'll give you four
[FANTINE]
That wouldn't pay for the chain!
[OLD WOMAN]
I'll give you five. You're far to eager to sell.
It's up to you.
[FANTINE]
It's all I have
[OLD WOMAN]
That's not my fault
[FANTINE]
Please make it ten!
[OLD WOMAN]
No more than five
My dear, we all must stay alive!
[WOMEN]
Lovely ladies
Waiting in the dark
Ready for a thick one
Or a quick one in the park
[WHORE 1]
Long time short time
Any time, my dear
Cost a little extra if you want to take all year!
[ALL]
Quick and cheap is underneath the pier!
[CRONE]
What pretty hair!
What pretty locks you got there
What luck you got. It's worth a centime, my dear
I'll take the lot
[FANTINE]
Don't touch me! Leave me alone!
[CRONE]
Let's make a price.
I'll give you all of ten francs,
Just think of that!
[FANTINE]
It pays a debt
[CRONE]
Just think of that
[FANTINE]
What can I do? It pays a debt.
Ten francs may save my poor Cosette!
[SAILOR THREE]
Lovely lady!
Fastest on the street
Wasn't there three minutes
She was back up on her feet
[SAILOR ONE]
Lovely lady!
What yer waiting for?
Doesn't take a lot of savvy
Just to be a whore
Come on, lady
What's a lady for?
[Fantine re-emerges, her long hair cut short]
[PIMP]
Give me the dirt, who's that bit over there?
[WHORE ONE]
A bit of skirt. She's the one sold her hair.
[WHORE TWO]
She's got a kid. Sends her all that she can
[PIMP]
I might have known
There is always some man
Lovely lady, come along and join us!
Lovely lady!
[WHORE ONE]
Come on dearie, why all the fuss?
You're no grander than the rest of us
Life has dropped you at the bottom of the heap
Join your sisters
[WHORE TWO]
Make money in your sleep!
[Fantine goes off with one of the sailors]
[WHORE ONE]
That's right dearie, let him have the lot
[WHORE THREE]
That's right dearie, show him what you've got!
[WOMEN]
Old men, young men, take 'em as they come
Harbor rats and alley cats and every kind of scum
Poor men, rich men, leaders of the land
See them with their trousers off they're never quite as grand
All it takes is money in your hand!
Lovely ladies
Going for a song
Got a lot of callers
But they never stay for long
[FANTINE]
Come on, Captain,
you can wear your shoes
Don't it make a change
To have a girl who can't refuse
Easy money
Lying on a bed
Just as well they never see
The hate that's in your head
Don't they know they're making love
To one already dead!
I smell women
Smell 'em in the air
Think I'll drop my anchor
In that harbor over there
[SAILOR TWO]
Lovely ladies
Smell 'em through the smoke
Seven days at sea
Can make you hungry for a poke
[SAILOR THREE]
Even stokers need a little stoke!
[WOMEN]
Lovely ladies
Waiting for a bite
Waiting for the customers
Who only come at night
Lovely ladies
Ready for the call
Standing up or lying down
Or any way at all
Bargain prices up against the wall
[OLD WOMAN]
Come here, my dear
Let's see this trinket you wear
This bagatelle...
[FANTINE]
Madame, I'll sell it to you...
[OLD WOMAN]
I'll give you four
[FANTINE]
That wouldn't pay for the chain!
[OLD WOMAN]
I'll give you five. You're far to eager to sell.
It's up to you.
[FANTINE]
It's all I have
[OLD WOMAN]
That's not my fault
[FANTINE]
Please make it ten!
[OLD WOMAN]
No more than five
My dear, we all must stay alive!
[WOMEN]
Lovely ladies
Waiting in the dark
Ready for a thick one
Or a quick one in the park
[WHORE 1]
Long time short time
Any time, my dear
Cost a little extra if you want to take all year!
[ALL]
Quick and cheap is underneath the pier!
[CRONE]
What pretty hair!
What pretty locks you got there
What luck you got. It's worth a centime, my dear
I'll take the lot
[FANTINE]
Don't touch me! Leave me alone!
[CRONE]
Let's make a price.
I'll give you all of ten francs,
Just think of that!
[FANTINE]
It pays a debt
[CRONE]
Just think of that
[FANTINE]
What can I do? It pays a debt.
Ten francs may save my poor Cosette!
[SAILOR THREE]
Lovely lady!
Fastest on the street
Wasn't there three minutes
She was back up on her feet
[SAILOR ONE]
Lovely lady!
What yer waiting for?
Doesn't take a lot of savvy
Just to be a whore
Come on, lady
What's a lady for?
[Fantine re-emerges, her long hair cut short]
[PIMP]
Give me the dirt, who's that bit over there?
[WHORE ONE]
A bit of skirt. She's the one sold her hair.
[WHORE TWO]
She's got a kid. Sends her all that she can
[PIMP]
I might have known
There is always some man
Lovely lady, come along and join us!
Lovely lady!
[WHORE ONE]
Come on dearie, why all the fuss?
You're no grander than the rest of us
Life has dropped you at the bottom of the heap
Join your sisters
[WHORE TWO]
Make money in your sleep!
[Fantine goes off with one of the sailors]
[WHORE ONE]
That's right dearie, let him have the lot
[WHORE THREE]
That's right dearie, show him what you've got!
[WOMEN]
Old men, young men, take 'em as they come
Harbor rats and alley cats and every kind of scum
Poor men, rich men, leaders of the land
See them with their trousers off they're never quite as grand
All it takes is money in your hand!
Lovely ladies
Going for a song
Got a lot of callers
But they never stay for long
[FANTINE]
Come on, Captain,
you can wear your shoes
Don't it make a change
To have a girl who can't refuse
Easy money
Lying on a bed
Just as well they never see
The hate that's in your head
Don't they know they're making love
To one already dead!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Who Am I?
by Les Miserables Cast
[VALJEAN]
He thinks that man is me
He knew him at a glance!
That stranger he has found
This man could be my chance!
Why should I save his hide?
Why should I right this wrong
When I have come so far
And struggled for so long?
If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!
I am the master of hundreds of workers.
They all look to me.
How can I abandon them?
How would they live
If I am not free?
If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!
Who am I?
Can I condemn this man to slavery
Pretend I do not feel his agony
This innocent who bears my face
Who goes to judgement in my place
Who am I?
Can I conceal myself for evermore?
Pretend I'm not the man I was before?
And must my name until I die
Be no more than an alibi?
Must I lie?
How can I ever face my fellow men?
How can I ever face myself again?
My soul belongs to God, I know
I made that bargain long ago
He gave me hope when hope was gone
He gave me strength to journey on
[He appears in front of the court]
Who am I? Who am I?
I am Jean Valjean!
[He unbuttons his shirt to reveal the number tattooed to his chest]
And so Javert, you see it's true
That man bears no more guilt than you!
Who am I?
24601!
He thinks that man is me
He knew him at a glance!
That stranger he has found
This man could be my chance!
Why should I save his hide?
Why should I right this wrong
When I have come so far
And struggled for so long?
If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!
I am the master of hundreds of workers.
They all look to me.
How can I abandon them?
How would they live
If I am not free?
If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!
Who am I?
Can I condemn this man to slavery
Pretend I do not feel his agony
This innocent who bears my face
Who goes to judgement in my place
Who am I?
Can I conceal myself for evermore?
Pretend I'm not the man I was before?
And must my name until I die
Be no more than an alibi?
Must I lie?
How can I ever face my fellow men?
How can I ever face myself again?
My soul belongs to God, I know
I made that bargain long ago
He gave me hope when hope was gone
He gave me strength to journey on
[He appears in front of the court]
Who am I? Who am I?
I am Jean Valjean!
[He unbuttons his shirt to reveal the number tattooed to his chest]
And so Javert, you see it's true
That man bears no more guilt than you!
Who am I?
24601!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Fantine's Arrest + Come to Me (Fantine's Death)
by Les Misérables Cast
[Fantine is lying in a hospital bed, deliriously dreaming of her daughter Cosette]
[FANTINE]
Cosette, it's turned so cold
Cosette, it's past your bedtime
You've played the day away
And soon it will be night.
Come to me, Cosette, the light is fading
Don't you see the evening star appearing?
Come to me, and rest against my shoulder
How fast the minutes fly away and every minute colder.
Hurry near, another day is dying
Don't you hear, the winter wind is crying?
There's a darkness which comes without a warning
But I will sing you lullabies and wake you in the morning.
[Valjean enters]
[VALJEAN]
Oh, Fantine, our time is running out
But Fantine, I swear this on my life
[FANTINE]
Look, M'sieur, where all the children play
[VALJEAN]
Be at peace, be at peace evermore.
[FANTINE]
My Cosette...
[VALJEAN]
Shall live in my protection
[FANTINE]
Take her now
[VALJEAN]
Your child will want for nothing
[FANTINE]
Good M'sieur, you come from God in Heaven.
[VALJEAN]
And none shall ever harm Cosette
As long as I am living.
[FANTINE]
Take my hand. The night grows ever colder.
[VALJEAN]
Then I will keep you warm.
[FANTINE]
Take my child. I give her to your keeping.
[VALJEAN]
Take shelter from the storm
[FANTINE]
For God's sake, please stay till I am sleeping
And tell Cosette I love her
And I'll see her when I wake...
[She dies with a smile. Javert arrives]
=============
[BAMATABOIS]
Here's something new. I think I'll give it a try.
Come closer you! I like to see what I buy...
The usual price, for just a slice of your pie
[FANTINE]
I don't want you. No, no, m'sieur, let me go.
[BAMATABOIS]
Is this a trick? I won't pay more!
[FANTINE]
No, not at all.
[BAMATABOIS]
You've got some nerve, you little whore
You've got some gall.
It's the same with a tart as it is with a grocer
The customer sees what he gets in advance
It's not for the whore to say `yes sir' or `no sir'
It's not for the harlot to pick and to choose
Or lead me to a dance!
[He hits her with his stick, she claws at his face, drawing blood]
[FANTINE]
I'll kill you, you bastard,
Try any of that!
Even a whore who has gone to the bad
Won't be had by a rat!
[BAMATABOIS]
By Christ you'll pay for what you've done
This rat will make you bleed, you'll see!
I guarantee, I'll make you suffer
For this disturbance of the peace
For this insult to life and property!
[FANTINE]
I beg you, don't report me sir
I'll do whatever you may want
[BAMATABOIS]
Make your excuse to the police!
[Javert enters, accompanied by constables]
[JAVERT]
Tell me quickly what's the story
Who saw what and why and where
Let him give a full description
Let him answer to Javert!
In this nest of whores and vipers
Let one speak who saw it all
Who laid hands on this good man here?
What's the substance of this brawl?
[BAMATABOIS]
Javert, would you believe it
I was crossing from the park
When this prostitute attacked me
You can see she left her mark
[JAVERT]
She will answer for her actions
When you make a full report
You may rest assured, M'sieur,
That she will answer to the court.
[FANTINE]
There's a child who sorely needs me
Please M'sieur, she's but that high
Holy God, is there no mercy?
If I go to jail she'll die!
[JAVERT]
I have heard such protestations
Every day for twenty years
Let's have no more explanations
Save your breath and save your tears
`Honest work, just reward,
That's the way to please the Lord.'
[Fantine gives a last despairing cry as she is arrested by the constables. Valjean emerges from the crowd]
[VALJEAN]
A moment of your time, Javert
I do believe this woman's tale
[JAVERT]
[VALJEAN]
You've done your duty, let her be
She needs a doctor, not a jail.
[JAVERT]
But M'sieur Mayor!
[FANTINE]
Can this be?
[VALJEAN]
Where will she end -
This child without a friend?
I've seen your face before
Show me some way to help you
How have you come to grief
In a place such as this?
[FANTINE]
M'sieur, don't mock me now, I pray
It's hard enough I've lost my pride
You let your foreman send me away
Yes, you were there, and turned aside
I never did no wrong
[VALJEAN]
Is it true, what I have done?
[FANTINE]
My daughter's close to dying...
[VALJEAN]
To an innocent soul?
[FANTINE]
If there's a God above
[VALJEAN]
Had I only known then...
[FANTINE]
He'd let me die instead
[VALJEAN]
In His name my task has just begun
I will see it done!
[JAVERT]
But M'sieur Mayor!
[VALJEAN]
I will see it done!
[JAVERT]
But M'sieur Mayor!
[VALJEAN]
I will see it done!
[VOICES]
Look out! It's a runaway cart!
[FANTINE]
Cosette, it's turned so cold
Cosette, it's past your bedtime
You've played the day away
And soon it will be night.
Come to me, Cosette, the light is fading
Don't you see the evening star appearing?
Come to me, and rest against my shoulder
How fast the minutes fly away and every minute colder.
Hurry near, another day is dying
Don't you hear, the winter wind is crying?
There's a darkness which comes without a warning
But I will sing you lullabies and wake you in the morning.
[Valjean enters]
[VALJEAN]
Oh, Fantine, our time is running out
But Fantine, I swear this on my life
[FANTINE]
Look, M'sieur, where all the children play
[VALJEAN]
Be at peace, be at peace evermore.
[FANTINE]
My Cosette...
[VALJEAN]
Shall live in my protection
[FANTINE]
Take her now
[VALJEAN]
Your child will want for nothing
[FANTINE]
Good M'sieur, you come from God in Heaven.
[VALJEAN]
And none shall ever harm Cosette
As long as I am living.
[FANTINE]
Take my hand. The night grows ever colder.
[VALJEAN]
Then I will keep you warm.
[FANTINE]
Take my child. I give her to your keeping.
[VALJEAN]
Take shelter from the storm
[FANTINE]
For God's sake, please stay till I am sleeping
And tell Cosette I love her
And I'll see her when I wake...
[She dies with a smile. Javert arrives]
=============
[BAMATABOIS]
Here's something new. I think I'll give it a try.
Come closer you! I like to see what I buy...
The usual price, for just a slice of your pie
[FANTINE]
I don't want you. No, no, m'sieur, let me go.
[BAMATABOIS]
Is this a trick? I won't pay more!
[FANTINE]
No, not at all.
[BAMATABOIS]
You've got some nerve, you little whore
You've got some gall.
It's the same with a tart as it is with a grocer
The customer sees what he gets in advance
It's not for the whore to say `yes sir' or `no sir'
It's not for the harlot to pick and to choose
Or lead me to a dance!
[He hits her with his stick, she claws at his face, drawing blood]
[FANTINE]
I'll kill you, you bastard,
Try any of that!
Even a whore who has gone to the bad
Won't be had by a rat!
[BAMATABOIS]
By Christ you'll pay for what you've done
This rat will make you bleed, you'll see!
I guarantee, I'll make you suffer
For this disturbance of the peace
For this insult to life and property!
[FANTINE]
I beg you, don't report me sir
I'll do whatever you may want
[BAMATABOIS]
Make your excuse to the police!
[Javert enters, accompanied by constables]
[JAVERT]
Tell me quickly what's the story
Who saw what and why and where
Let him give a full description
Let him answer to Javert!
In this nest of whores and vipers
Let one speak who saw it all
Who laid hands on this good man here?
What's the substance of this brawl?
[BAMATABOIS]
Javert, would you believe it
I was crossing from the park
When this prostitute attacked me
You can see she left her mark
[JAVERT]
She will answer for her actions
When you make a full report
You may rest assured, M'sieur,
That she will answer to the court.
[FANTINE]
There's a child who sorely needs me
Please M'sieur, she's but that high
Holy God, is there no mercy?
If I go to jail she'll die!
[JAVERT]
I have heard such protestations
Every day for twenty years
Let's have no more explanations
Save your breath and save your tears
`Honest work, just reward,
That's the way to please the Lord.'
[Fantine gives a last despairing cry as she is arrested by the constables. Valjean emerges from the crowd]
[VALJEAN]
A moment of your time, Javert
I do believe this woman's tale
[JAVERT]
[VALJEAN]
You've done your duty, let her be
She needs a doctor, not a jail.
[JAVERT]
But M'sieur Mayor!
[FANTINE]
Can this be?
[VALJEAN]
Where will she end -
This child without a friend?
I've seen your face before
Show me some way to help you
How have you come to grief
In a place such as this?
[FANTINE]
M'sieur, don't mock me now, I pray
It's hard enough I've lost my pride
You let your foreman send me away
Yes, you were there, and turned aside
I never did no wrong
[VALJEAN]
Is it true, what I have done?
[FANTINE]
My daughter's close to dying...
[VALJEAN]
To an innocent soul?
[FANTINE]
If there's a God above
[VALJEAN]
Had I only known then...
[FANTINE]
He'd let me die instead
[VALJEAN]
In His name my task has just begun
I will see it done!
[JAVERT]
But M'sieur Mayor!
[VALJEAN]
I will see it done!
[JAVERT]
But M'sieur Mayor!
[VALJEAN]
I will see it done!
[VOICES]
Look out! It's a runaway cart!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Confrontation
by Les Miserables Cast
[JAVERT]
Valjean, at last,
We see each other plain
`M'sieur le Mayor,'
You'll wear a different chain!
[VALJEAN]
Before you say another word, Javert
Before you chain me up like a slave again
Listen to me! There is something I must do.
This woman leaves behind a suffering child.
There is none but me who can intercede,
In Mercy's name, three days are all I need.
Then I'll return, I pledge my word.
Then I'll return...
[JAVERT]
You must think me mad!
I've hunted you across the years
A man like you can never change
A man such as you.
[VALJEAN(in counterpoint)]
Believe of me what you will
There is a duty that I'm sworn to do
You know nothing of my life
All I did was steal some bread
You know nothing of the world
You would sooner see me dead
But not before I see this justice
done
I am warning you Javert
I'm a stronger man by far
There is power in me yet
My race is not yet run
I am warning you Javert
There is nothing I won't dare
If I have to kill you here
I'll do what must be done!
[JAVERT(in counterpoint)]
Men like me can never change
Men like you can never change
No,
24601
My duty's to the law - you have no
Rights
Come with me 24601
Now the wheel has turned around
Jean Valjean is nothing now
Dare you talk to me of crime
And the price you had to pay
Every man is born in sin
Every man must choose his way
You know nothing of Javert
I was born inside a jail
I was born with scum like you
I am from the gutter too!
[Valjean breaks a chair and threatens Javert with the broken piece.
Turns to Fantine]
[VALJEAN]
[to Fantine] And this I swear to you tonight
[JAVERT]
[to Valjean] There is no place for you to hide
[VALJEAN]
Your child will live within my care
[JAVERT]
Wherever you may hide away
[VALJEAN]
And I will raise her to the light.
[VALJEAN AND JAVERT]
I swear to you, I will be there!
[They fight, Javert is knocked out. Valjean escapes]
Valjean, at last,
We see each other plain
`M'sieur le Mayor,'
You'll wear a different chain!
[VALJEAN]
Before you say another word, Javert
Before you chain me up like a slave again
Listen to me! There is something I must do.
This woman leaves behind a suffering child.
There is none but me who can intercede,
In Mercy's name, three days are all I need.
Then I'll return, I pledge my word.
Then I'll return...
[JAVERT]
You must think me mad!
I've hunted you across the years
A man like you can never change
A man such as you.
[VALJEAN(in counterpoint)]
Believe of me what you will
There is a duty that I'm sworn to do
You know nothing of my life
All I did was steal some bread
You know nothing of the world
You would sooner see me dead
But not before I see this justice
done
I am warning you Javert
I'm a stronger man by far
There is power in me yet
My race is not yet run
I am warning you Javert
There is nothing I won't dare
If I have to kill you here
I'll do what must be done!
[JAVERT(in counterpoint)]
Men like me can never change
Men like you can never change
No,
24601
My duty's to the law - you have no
Rights
Come with me 24601
Now the wheel has turned around
Jean Valjean is nothing now
Dare you talk to me of crime
And the price you had to pay
Every man is born in sin
Every man must choose his way
You know nothing of Javert
I was born inside a jail
I was born with scum like you
I am from the gutter too!
[Valjean breaks a chair and threatens Javert with the broken piece.
Turns to Fantine]
[VALJEAN]
[to Fantine] And this I swear to you tonight
[JAVERT]
[to Valjean] There is no place for you to hide
[VALJEAN]
Your child will live within my care
[JAVERT]
Wherever you may hide away
[VALJEAN]
And I will raise her to the light.
[VALJEAN AND JAVERT]
I swear to you, I will be there!
[They fight, Javert is knocked out. Valjean escapes]
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Castle on a Cloud
by Les Miserables Cast
[Young Cosette is working as a drudge in the Thénardier's inn at Montfermeil]
[YOUNG COSETTE]
There is a castle on a cloud,
I like to go there in my sleep,
Aren't any floors for me to sweep,
Not in my castle on a cloud.
There is a room that's full of toys,
There are a hundred boys and girls,
Nobody shouts or talks too loud,
Not in my castle on a cloud.
There is a lady all in white,
Holds me and sings a lullaby,
She's nice to see and she's soft to touch,
She says "Cosette, I love you very much."
I know a place where no one's lost,
I know a place where no one cries,
Crying at all is not allowed,
Not in my castle on a cloud.
Oh help! I think I hear them now,
and I'm nowhere near finished sweeping and
scrubbing and polishing the floor.
Oh, it's her! It's Madame!
[MME. THENARDIER]
Now look who's here
The little madam herself!
Pretending once again she's been `so awfully good,'
Better not let me catch you slacking
Better not catch my eye!
Ten rotten francs your mother sends me
What is that going to buy?
Now take that pail
My little `Mademoiselle'
And go and draw some water from the well!
We should never have taken you in in the first place
How stupid the things that we do!
Like mother like daughter, the scum of the street.
Eponine, come my dear, Eponine, let me see you
You look very well in that new little blue hat
There's some little girls who know how to behave
And they know what to wear
And I'm saying thank heaven for that.
Still there Cosette?
Your tears will do you no good!
I told you fetch some water from the well in the wood!
[YOUNG COSETTE]
Please do not send me out alone
Not in the darkness on my own!
[MME. THENARDIER]
Enough of that, or I'll forget to be nice!
You heard me ask for something,
And I never ask twice!
[Young Eponine pushes Cosette out. Thénardier says good night to his daughter as the inn fills up for the evening]
[YOUNG COSETTE]
There is a castle on a cloud,
I like to go there in my sleep,
Aren't any floors for me to sweep,
Not in my castle on a cloud.
There is a room that's full of toys,
There are a hundred boys and girls,
Nobody shouts or talks too loud,
Not in my castle on a cloud.
There is a lady all in white,
Holds me and sings a lullaby,
She's nice to see and she's soft to touch,
She says "Cosette, I love you very much."
I know a place where no one's lost,
I know a place where no one cries,
Crying at all is not allowed,
Not in my castle on a cloud.
Oh help! I think I hear them now,
and I'm nowhere near finished sweeping and
scrubbing and polishing the floor.
Oh, it's her! It's Madame!
[MME. THENARDIER]
Now look who's here
The little madam herself!
Pretending once again she's been `so awfully good,'
Better not let me catch you slacking
Better not catch my eye!
Ten rotten francs your mother sends me
What is that going to buy?
Now take that pail
My little `Mademoiselle'
And go and draw some water from the well!
We should never have taken you in in the first place
How stupid the things that we do!
Like mother like daughter, the scum of the street.
Eponine, come my dear, Eponine, let me see you
You look very well in that new little blue hat
There's some little girls who know how to behave
And they know what to wear
And I'm saying thank heaven for that.
Still there Cosette?
Your tears will do you no good!
I told you fetch some water from the well in the wood!
[YOUNG COSETTE]
Please do not send me out alone
Not in the darkness on my own!
[MME. THENARDIER]
Enough of that, or I'll forget to be nice!
You heard me ask for something,
And I never ask twice!
[Young Eponine pushes Cosette out. Thénardier says good night to his daughter as the inn fills up for the evening]
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Master of the House
by Les Miserables Cast
Drinkers:
Come on, you old pest!
Fetch a bottle of your best!
What's the nectar of the day?
Thenardier:
Here try this lot
Guaranteed to hit the spot
Or I'm not Thenardier!
Drinkers:
Give us a glass of rum!
Landlord over here!
Thenardier:
Right away you scum,
Right away Monsieur!
Drinkers:
God, this place has gone to hell
So you tell me every year!
Mine host, Thenardier
He was there, so they say
At the field of Waterloo,
Got there, it's true
When the fight was all through
But he knew just what to do!
Crawling through the mud, so I've heard it said
Picking through the pockets of the English dead
He made a tidy score from the spoils of war!
Thenardier:
My band of soaks, my den of dissolute's
My dirty jokes, my always pissed as newts
My sons of whores spend there lives in my inn,
Homing pigeons homing in
They fly through my doors,
And their money's good as yours!
Drinkers:
Ain't got a clue what he put into this stew,
Must've scraped it off the street.
God what a wine, Chateauneuf du Terpentine,
Must've pressed it with his feet!
Landlord over here
Where's the bloody man?
One more for the road,
One more slug of gin!
Just one more or my old man is gonna do me in...
Thenardier:
Welcome, Monsieur, sit yourself down
And meet the best innkeeper in town
As for the rest, all of 'em crooks:
Rooking their guests and crooking the books
Seldom do you see
Honest men like me
A gent of good intent
Who's content to be
Master of the house, doling out the charm
Ready with a handshake and an open palm
Tells a saucy tale, makes a little stir
Customers appreciate a bon-viveur
Glad to do a friend a favor
Doesn't cost me to be nice
But nothing gets you nothing
Everything has got a little price!
Master of the house, keeper of the zoo
Ready to relieve 'em of a sou or two
Watering the wine, making up the weight
Pickin' up their knick-knacks when they can't see straight
Everybody loves a landlord
Everybody's bosom friend
I do whatever pleases
Jesus! Won't I bleed 'em in the end!
Thenardier & Drinkers:
Master of the house, quick to catch yer eye
Never wants a passerby to pass him by
Servant to the poor, butler to the great
Comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate!
Everybody's boon companion
Everybody's chaperone
Thenardier
But lock up your valises
Jesus! Won't I skin you to the bone!
Enter Monsieur, lay down your load
Unlace your boots, rest from the road
This weighs a ton, travel's a curse
But here we strive to lighten your purse
Here the goose is cooked
Here the fat is fried
And nothing's overlooked
Till I'm satisfied
Food beyond compare. Food beyond belief
Mix it in a mincer and pretend it's beef
Kidney of a horse, liver of a cat
Filling up the sausages with this and that
Residents are more than welcome
Bridal suite is occupied
Reasonable charges
Plus some little extras on the side!
Charge 'em for the lice, extra for the mice
Two percent for looking in the mirror twice
Here a little slice, there a little cut
Three percent for sleeping with the window shut
When it comes to fixing prices
There are a lot of tricks he knows
How it all increases, all them bits and pieces
Jesus! It's amazing how it grows!
Thenardier & Chorus:
Master of the house, quick to catch yer eye
Never wants a passerby to pass him by
Servant to the poor, butler to the great
Comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate!
Everybody's boon companion
Gives 'em everything he's got
Thenardier:
Dirty bunch of geezers
Jesus! What a sorry little lot!
Mme. Thenardier:
I used to dream that I would meet a prince
But God Almighty, have you seen what's happened since?
Master of the house? Isn't worth me spit!
`Comforter, philosopher' and lifelong shit!
Cunning little brain, regular Voltaire
Thinks he's quite a lover but there's not much there
What a cruel trick of nature landed me with such a louse
God knows how I've lasted living with this bastard in the house!
Thenardier & Drinkers:
Master of the house!
Mme. Thenardier:
Master and a half!
Thenardier & Drinkers:
Comforter, philosopher
Mme. Thenardier:
Ah, don't make me laugh!
Thenardier & Drinkers:
Servant to the poor, butler to the great
Mme. Thenardier:
Hypocrite and toady and inebriate!
Thenardier & Drinkers:
Everybody bless the landlord!
Everybody bless his spouse!
Thenardier:
Everybody raise a glass
Mme. Thenardier:
Raise it up the master's arse
All
Everybody raise a glass to the Master of the House!
Come on, you old pest!
Fetch a bottle of your best!
What's the nectar of the day?
Thenardier:
Here try this lot
Guaranteed to hit the spot
Or I'm not Thenardier!
Drinkers:
Give us a glass of rum!
Landlord over here!
Thenardier:
Right away you scum,
Right away Monsieur!
Drinkers:
God, this place has gone to hell
So you tell me every year!
Mine host, Thenardier
He was there, so they say
At the field of Waterloo,
Got there, it's true
When the fight was all through
But he knew just what to do!
Crawling through the mud, so I've heard it said
Picking through the pockets of the English dead
He made a tidy score from the spoils of war!
Thenardier:
My band of soaks, my den of dissolute's
My dirty jokes, my always pissed as newts
My sons of whores spend there lives in my inn,
Homing pigeons homing in
They fly through my doors,
And their money's good as yours!
Drinkers:
Ain't got a clue what he put into this stew,
Must've scraped it off the street.
God what a wine, Chateauneuf du Terpentine,
Must've pressed it with his feet!
Landlord over here
Where's the bloody man?
One more for the road,
One more slug of gin!
Just one more or my old man is gonna do me in...
Thenardier:
Welcome, Monsieur, sit yourself down
And meet the best innkeeper in town
As for the rest, all of 'em crooks:
Rooking their guests and crooking the books
Seldom do you see
Honest men like me
A gent of good intent
Who's content to be
Master of the house, doling out the charm
Ready with a handshake and an open palm
Tells a saucy tale, makes a little stir
Customers appreciate a bon-viveur
Glad to do a friend a favor
Doesn't cost me to be nice
But nothing gets you nothing
Everything has got a little price!
Master of the house, keeper of the zoo
Ready to relieve 'em of a sou or two
Watering the wine, making up the weight
Pickin' up their knick-knacks when they can't see straight
Everybody loves a landlord
Everybody's bosom friend
I do whatever pleases
Jesus! Won't I bleed 'em in the end!
Thenardier & Drinkers:
Master of the house, quick to catch yer eye
Never wants a passerby to pass him by
Servant to the poor, butler to the great
Comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate!
Everybody's boon companion
Everybody's chaperone
Thenardier
But lock up your valises
Jesus! Won't I skin you to the bone!
Enter Monsieur, lay down your load
Unlace your boots, rest from the road
This weighs a ton, travel's a curse
But here we strive to lighten your purse
Here the goose is cooked
Here the fat is fried
And nothing's overlooked
Till I'm satisfied
Food beyond compare. Food beyond belief
Mix it in a mincer and pretend it's beef
Kidney of a horse, liver of a cat
Filling up the sausages with this and that
Residents are more than welcome
Bridal suite is occupied
Reasonable charges
Plus some little extras on the side!
Charge 'em for the lice, extra for the mice
Two percent for looking in the mirror twice
Here a little slice, there a little cut
Three percent for sleeping with the window shut
When it comes to fixing prices
There are a lot of tricks he knows
How it all increases, all them bits and pieces
Jesus! It's amazing how it grows!
Thenardier & Chorus:
Master of the house, quick to catch yer eye
Never wants a passerby to pass him by
Servant to the poor, butler to the great
Comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate!
Everybody's boon companion
Gives 'em everything he's got
Thenardier:
Dirty bunch of geezers
Jesus! What a sorry little lot!
Mme. Thenardier:
I used to dream that I would meet a prince
But God Almighty, have you seen what's happened since?
Master of the house? Isn't worth me spit!
`Comforter, philosopher' and lifelong shit!
Cunning little brain, regular Voltaire
Thinks he's quite a lover but there's not much there
What a cruel trick of nature landed me with such a louse
God knows how I've lasted living with this bastard in the house!
Thenardier & Drinkers:
Master of the house!
Mme. Thenardier:
Master and a half!
Thenardier & Drinkers:
Comforter, philosopher
Mme. Thenardier:
Ah, don't make me laugh!
Thenardier & Drinkers:
Servant to the poor, butler to the great
Mme. Thenardier:
Hypocrite and toady and inebriate!
Thenardier & Drinkers:
Everybody bless the landlord!
Everybody bless his spouse!
Thenardier:
Everybody raise a glass
Mme. Thenardier:
Raise it up the master's arse
All
Everybody raise a glass to the Master of the House!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
The Thenardier Waltz of Treachery
by Les Miserables Cast
THENARDIER
What to do? What to say?
Shall you carry our treasure away?
What a gem! What a pearl!
Beyond rubies is our little girl!
How can we speak of debt?
Let's not haggle for darling Cosette!
Dear Fantine, gone to rest...
Have we done for her child what is best?
Shared our bread. Shared each bone.
Treated her like she's one of our own!
Like our own, Monsieur!
VALJEAN
Your feelings do you credit, sir
And I will ease the parting blow
He pays them.
Let us not talk of bargains or bones or greed
Now, may I say, we are agreed?
MME. THENARDIER
That would quite fit the bill
If she hadn't so often been ill
Little dear, cost us dear
Medicines are expensive, M'sieur
Not that we begrudged a sou
It's no more than we Christians must do!
M. & MME. THENARDIER
One thing more, one small doubt
There are treacherous people about
No offense. Please reflect.
Your intentions may not be correct?
VALJEAN
No more words. Here's your price.
Fifteen hundred for your sacrifice.
Come, Cosette, say goodbye
Let us seek out some friendlier sky.
Thank you both for Cosette
It won't take you too long to forget.
(Valjean and Cosette leave the inn)
Come, Cosette, come, my dear
From now on I will always be here
Where I go, you will be.
YOUNG COSETTE
Will there be children and castles to see?
VALJEAN
Yes, Cosette, yes, it's true.
There's a castle just waiting for you.
VALJEAN & YOUNG COSETTE
La la la la la...
What to do? What to say?
Shall you carry our treasure away?
What a gem! What a pearl!
Beyond rubies is our little girl!
How can we speak of debt?
Let's not haggle for darling Cosette!
Dear Fantine, gone to rest...
Have we done for her child what is best?
Shared our bread. Shared each bone.
Treated her like she's one of our own!
Like our own, Monsieur!
VALJEAN
Your feelings do you credit, sir
And I will ease the parting blow
He pays them.
Let us not talk of bargains or bones or greed
Now, may I say, we are agreed?
MME. THENARDIER
That would quite fit the bill
If she hadn't so often been ill
Little dear, cost us dear
Medicines are expensive, M'sieur
Not that we begrudged a sou
It's no more than we Christians must do!
M. & MME. THENARDIER
One thing more, one small doubt
There are treacherous people about
No offense. Please reflect.
Your intentions may not be correct?
VALJEAN
No more words. Here's your price.
Fifteen hundred for your sacrifice.
Come, Cosette, say goodbye
Let us seek out some friendlier sky.
Thank you both for Cosette
It won't take you too long to forget.
(Valjean and Cosette leave the inn)
Come, Cosette, come, my dear
From now on I will always be here
Where I go, you will be.
YOUNG COSETTE
Will there be children and castles to see?
VALJEAN
Yes, Cosette, yes, it's true.
There's a castle just waiting for you.
VALJEAN & YOUNG COSETTE
La la la la la...
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Look Down
by Les Miserables Cast
1832. The teeming, squalid streets of Paris. Beggars, urchins, prostitutes, students, etc.
BEGGARS
Look down and see the beggars at your feet
Look down and show some mercy if you can
Look down and see the sweepings of the street
Look down, look down,
Upon your fellow man!
GAVROCHE
'Ow do you do? My name's Gavroche.
These are my people. Here's my patch.
Not much to look at, nothing posh
Nothing that you'd call up to scratch.
This is my school, my high society
Here in the slums of Saint Michele
We live on crumbs of humble piety
Tough on the teeth, but what the hell!
Think you're poor?
Think you're free?
Follow me! Follow me!
BEGGARS
Look down and show some mercy if you can
Look down, look down, upon your fellow man!
(An old beggar woman finds a young prostitute occupying her pitch)
OLD BEGGAR WOMAN
What you think yer at?
Hanging round me pitch?
If you're new around here, girl
You've got a lot to learn!
YOUNG PROSTITUTE
Listen you old bat...
Crazy bloody witch...
'Least I give me customers
Some pleasure in return!
OLD BEGGAR WOMAN
I know what you give!
Give 'em all the pox!
Spread around your poison
Till they end up in a box.
PIMP
Leave the poor old cow,
Move it, Madeleine.
She used to be no better
Till the clap got to her brain.
BEGGARS
When's it gonna end?
When we gonna live?
Something's gotta happen now or
Something's gonna give
It'll come, it'll come, it'll come
It'll come, it'll come, it'll come
ENJOLRAS
Where the leaders of the land?
Where are the swells who run this show?
MARIUS
Only one man - and that's Lamarque
Speaks for these people here below.
BEGGARS
See our children fed
Help us in our shame
Something for a crust of bread
In Holy Jesus' name
URCHIN
In the Lord's Holy name.
BEGGARS
In his name, in his name, in his name...
MARIUS
Lamarque is ill and fading fast!
Won't last the week out, so they say.
ENJOLRAS
With all the anger in the land
How long before the judgement day?
Before we cut the fat ones down to size?
Before the barricades arise?
GAVROCHE
Watch out for old Thenardier
All of his family's on the make
Once ran a hash-house down the way
Bit of a swine and no mistake
He's got a gang
The bleeding layabout
Even his daughter does her share
That's Eponine, she knows her way about
Only a kid, but hard to scare
Do we care?
Not a cuss
Long live us.
Long live us!
BEGGARS
Look down and show some mercy if you can
Look down, look down upon your fellow man!
BEGGARS
Look down and see the beggars at your feet
Look down and show some mercy if you can
Look down and see the sweepings of the street
Look down, look down,
Upon your fellow man!
GAVROCHE
'Ow do you do? My name's Gavroche.
These are my people. Here's my patch.
Not much to look at, nothing posh
Nothing that you'd call up to scratch.
This is my school, my high society
Here in the slums of Saint Michele
We live on crumbs of humble piety
Tough on the teeth, but what the hell!
Think you're poor?
Think you're free?
Follow me! Follow me!
BEGGARS
Look down and show some mercy if you can
Look down, look down, upon your fellow man!
(An old beggar woman finds a young prostitute occupying her pitch)
OLD BEGGAR WOMAN
What you think yer at?
Hanging round me pitch?
If you're new around here, girl
You've got a lot to learn!
YOUNG PROSTITUTE
Listen you old bat...
Crazy bloody witch...
'Least I give me customers
Some pleasure in return!
OLD BEGGAR WOMAN
I know what you give!
Give 'em all the pox!
Spread around your poison
Till they end up in a box.
PIMP
Leave the poor old cow,
Move it, Madeleine.
She used to be no better
Till the clap got to her brain.
BEGGARS
When's it gonna end?
When we gonna live?
Something's gotta happen now or
Something's gonna give
It'll come, it'll come, it'll come
It'll come, it'll come, it'll come
ENJOLRAS
Where the leaders of the land?
Where are the swells who run this show?
MARIUS
Only one man - and that's Lamarque
Speaks for these people here below.
BEGGARS
See our children fed
Help us in our shame
Something for a crust of bread
In Holy Jesus' name
URCHIN
In the Lord's Holy name.
BEGGARS
In his name, in his name, in his name...
MARIUS
Lamarque is ill and fading fast!
Won't last the week out, so they say.
ENJOLRAS
With all the anger in the land
How long before the judgement day?
Before we cut the fat ones down to size?
Before the barricades arise?
GAVROCHE
Watch out for old Thenardier
All of his family's on the make
Once ran a hash-house down the way
Bit of a swine and no mistake
He's got a gang
The bleeding layabout
Even his daughter does her share
That's Eponine, she knows her way about
Only a kid, but hard to scare
Do we care?
Not a cuss
Long live us.
Long live us!
BEGGARS
Look down and show some mercy if you can
Look down, look down upon your fellow man!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Stars
by Les Miserables Cast
JAVERT
There, out in the darkness
A fugitive running
Fallen from god
Fallen from grace
God be my witness
I never shall yield
Till we come face to face
Till we come face to face
He knows his way in the dark
Mine is the way of the Lord
And those who follow the path of the righteous
Shall have their reward
And if they fall
As Lucifer fell
The flame
The sword!
Stars
In your multitudes
Scarce to be counted
Filling the darkness
With order and light
You are the sentinels
Silent and sure
Keeping watch in the night
Keeping watch in the night
You know your place in the sky
You hold your course and your aim
And each in your season
Returns and returns
And is always the same
And if you fall as Lucifer fell
You fall in flame!
And so it has been and so it is written
On the doorway to paradise
That those who falter and those who fall
Must pay the price!
Lord let me find him
That I may see him
Safe behind bars
I will never rest
Till then
This I swear
This I swear by the stars!
GAVROCHE
That inspector thinks he's something
But it's me who runs this town!
And my theater never closes
And the curtain's never down
Trust Gavroche, have no fear
Don't you worry, auntie dear,
You can always find me here!
There, out in the darkness
A fugitive running
Fallen from god
Fallen from grace
God be my witness
I never shall yield
Till we come face to face
Till we come face to face
He knows his way in the dark
Mine is the way of the Lord
And those who follow the path of the righteous
Shall have their reward
And if they fall
As Lucifer fell
The flame
The sword!
Stars
In your multitudes
Scarce to be counted
Filling the darkness
With order and light
You are the sentinels
Silent and sure
Keeping watch in the night
Keeping watch in the night
You know your place in the sky
You hold your course and your aim
And each in your season
Returns and returns
And is always the same
And if you fall as Lucifer fell
You fall in flame!
And so it has been and so it is written
On the doorway to paradise
That those who falter and those who fall
Must pay the price!
Lord let me find him
That I may see him
Safe behind bars
I will never rest
Till then
This I swear
This I swear by the stars!
GAVROCHE
That inspector thinks he's something
But it's me who runs this town!
And my theater never closes
And the curtain's never down
Trust Gavroche, have no fear
Don't you worry, auntie dear,
You can always find me here!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Red and Black - The ABC Cafe
by Les Miserables Cast
(The ABC Cafe, where the students, led by Enjolras, meet to discuss their revolutionary plans)
COMBEFERRE
At Notre Dame the sections are prepared!
FEUILLY
At rue de Bac they're straining at the leash!
COURFEYRAC
Students, workers, everyone
There's a river on the run
Like the flowing of the tide
Paris coming to our side!
ENJORAS
The time is near
So near it's stirring the blood in their veins!
And yet beware
Don't let the wine go to your brains!
For the army we fight is a dangerous foe
With the men and the arms that we never can match
It is easy to sit here and swat 'em like flies
But the national guard will be harder to catch.
We need a sign
To rally the people
To call them to arms
To bring them in line!
(Marius enters)
Marius, you're late.
JOLY
Marius what's wrong with you today?
You look as if you've seen a ghost.
GRANTAIRE
Some wine and say what's going on!
MARIUS
A ghost you say... a ghost maybe
She was just like a ghost to me
One minute there, and she was gone!
GRANTAIRE
I am agog!
I am aghast!
Is Marius in love at last?
I've never heard him `ooh' and `aah'
You talk of battles to be won
And here he comes like Don Ju-an
It's better than an o-per-a!
ENJOLRAS
It is time for us all
To decide who we are
Do we fight for the right
To a night at the opera now?
Have you asked of yourselves
What's the price you might pay?
Is it simply a game
For rich young boys to play?
The color of the world
Is changing day by day...
Red - the blood of angry men!
Black - the dark of ages past!
Red - a world about to dawn!
Black - the night that ends at last!
MARIUS
Had you been there tonight
You might know how it feels
To be struck to the bone
In a moment of breathless delight!
Had you been there tonight
You might also have known
How the world may be changed
In just one burst of light!
And what was right seems wrong
And what was wrong seems right!
GRANTAIRE
Red...
MARIUS
I feel my soul on fire!
GRANTAIRE
Black...
MARIUS
My world if she's not there!
ALL
Red...
MARIUS
The color of desire!
ALL
Black...
MARIUS
The color of despair!
ENJOLRAS
Marius, you're no longer a child
I do not doubt you mean it well
But now there is a higher call.
Who cares about your lonely soul?
We strive toward a larger goal
Our little lives don't count at all!
ALL
Red - the blood of angry men!
Black - the dark of ages past!
Red - a world about to dawn!
Black - the night that ends at last!
ENJOLRAS
Well, Courfeyrac, do we have all the guns?
Feuilly, Combeferre, our time is running short.
Grantaire, put the bottle down!
Do we have the guns we need?
GRANTAIRE
Give me brandy on my breath
And I'll breathe them all to death!
COURFEYRAC
In St. Antoine they're with us to a man!
COMBEFERRE
In Notre Dame they're tearing up the stones!
FEUILLY
Twenty rifles good as new!
(Gavroche rushes in shouting)
GAVROCHE
Listen!
JOLY
Twenty rounds for every man!
GAVROCHE
Listen to me!
JEAN PROUVAIRE
Double that in Port St. Cloud!
GAVROCHE
Listen everybody!
LESGLES
Seven guns in St. Martin!
GAVROCHE
General Lamarque is dead!
ENJOLRAS
Lamarque is dead.
Lamarque! His death is the hour of fate.
The people's man.
His death is the sign we await!
On his funeral day they will honor his name.
It's a rallying cry that will reach every ear!
In the death of Lamarque we will kindle the flame
They will see that the day of salvation is near!
The time is near!
Let us welcome it gladly with courage and cheer
Let us take to the streets with no doubt in our hearts
But a jubilant shout
They will come one and all
They will come when we call!
COMBEFERRE
At Notre Dame the sections are prepared!
FEUILLY
At rue de Bac they're straining at the leash!
COURFEYRAC
Students, workers, everyone
There's a river on the run
Like the flowing of the tide
Paris coming to our side!
ENJORAS
The time is near
So near it's stirring the blood in their veins!
And yet beware
Don't let the wine go to your brains!
For the army we fight is a dangerous foe
With the men and the arms that we never can match
It is easy to sit here and swat 'em like flies
But the national guard will be harder to catch.
We need a sign
To rally the people
To call them to arms
To bring them in line!
(Marius enters)
Marius, you're late.
JOLY
Marius what's wrong with you today?
You look as if you've seen a ghost.
GRANTAIRE
Some wine and say what's going on!
MARIUS
A ghost you say... a ghost maybe
She was just like a ghost to me
One minute there, and she was gone!
GRANTAIRE
I am agog!
I am aghast!
Is Marius in love at last?
I've never heard him `ooh' and `aah'
You talk of battles to be won
And here he comes like Don Ju-an
It's better than an o-per-a!
ENJOLRAS
It is time for us all
To decide who we are
Do we fight for the right
To a night at the opera now?
Have you asked of yourselves
What's the price you might pay?
Is it simply a game
For rich young boys to play?
The color of the world
Is changing day by day...
Red - the blood of angry men!
Black - the dark of ages past!
Red - a world about to dawn!
Black - the night that ends at last!
MARIUS
Had you been there tonight
You might know how it feels
To be struck to the bone
In a moment of breathless delight!
Had you been there tonight
You might also have known
How the world may be changed
In just one burst of light!
And what was right seems wrong
And what was wrong seems right!
GRANTAIRE
Red...
MARIUS
I feel my soul on fire!
GRANTAIRE
Black...
MARIUS
My world if she's not there!
ALL
Red...
MARIUS
The color of desire!
ALL
Black...
MARIUS
The color of despair!
ENJOLRAS
Marius, you're no longer a child
I do not doubt you mean it well
But now there is a higher call.
Who cares about your lonely soul?
We strive toward a larger goal
Our little lives don't count at all!
ALL
Red - the blood of angry men!
Black - the dark of ages past!
Red - a world about to dawn!
Black - the night that ends at last!
ENJOLRAS
Well, Courfeyrac, do we have all the guns?
Feuilly, Combeferre, our time is running short.
Grantaire, put the bottle down!
Do we have the guns we need?
GRANTAIRE
Give me brandy on my breath
And I'll breathe them all to death!
COURFEYRAC
In St. Antoine they're with us to a man!
COMBEFERRE
In Notre Dame they're tearing up the stones!
FEUILLY
Twenty rifles good as new!
(Gavroche rushes in shouting)
GAVROCHE
Listen!
JOLY
Twenty rounds for every man!
GAVROCHE
Listen to me!
JEAN PROUVAIRE
Double that in Port St. Cloud!
GAVROCHE
Listen everybody!
LESGLES
Seven guns in St. Martin!
GAVROCHE
General Lamarque is dead!
ENJOLRAS
Lamarque is dead.
Lamarque! His death is the hour of fate.
The people's man.
His death is the sign we await!
On his funeral day they will honor his name.
It's a rallying cry that will reach every ear!
In the death of Lamarque we will kindle the flame
They will see that the day of salvation is near!
The time is near!
Let us welcome it gladly with courage and cheer
Let us take to the streets with no doubt in our hearts
But a jubilant shout
They will come one and all
They will come when we call!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Do You Hear the People Sing?
by Les Miserables Cast
ENJOLRAS
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
COMBEFERRE
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Courfeyrac:
Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!
ALL
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
FEUILLY
Will you give all you can give
So that our banner may advance
Some will fall and some will live
Will you stand up and take your chance?
The blood of the martyrs
Will water the meadows of France!
ALL
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
COMBEFERRE
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Courfeyrac:
Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!
ALL
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
FEUILLY
Will you give all you can give
So that our banner may advance
Some will fall and some will live
Will you stand up and take your chance?
The blood of the martyrs
Will water the meadows of France!
ALL
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
In My Life
by Les Miserables Cast
(Cosette stands in her garden on Rue Plumet)
COSETTE
How strange
This feeling that my life's begun at last
This change,
Can people really fall in love so fast?
What's the matter with you, Cosette?
Have you been too much on your own?
So many things unclear
So many things unknown.
In my life
There are so many questions and answers
That somehow seem wrong
In my life
There are times when I catch in the silence
The sigh of a faraway song
And it sings
Of a world that I long to see
Out of reach
Just a whisper away
Waiting for me.
Does he know I'm alive?
Do I know if he's real?
Does he see what I saw?
Does he feel what I feel?
In my life
I'm no longer alone
Now the love in my life
Is so near
Find me now, find me here!
VALJEAN
Dear Cosette,
You're such a lonely child
How pensive, how sad you seem to me
Believe me, were it within my power
I'd fill each passing hour
How quiet it must be, I can see
With only me for company.
COSETTE
There's so little I know
That I'm longing to know
Of the child that I was
In a time long ago...
There's so little you say
Of the life you have known
Why you keep to yourself
Why we're always alone
So dark! So dark and deep...
The secrets that you keep!
In my life
I have all that I want
You are loving and gentle and good
But Papa, dear Papa,
In your eyes I am just like a child
Who is lost in a wood
VALJEAN
No more words
No more words. It's a time that is dead
There are words
That are better unheard,
Better unsaid.
COSETTE
In my life
I'm no longer a child and I yearn
For the truth that you know
Of the years... years ago!
VALJEAN
You will learn
Truth is given by God
To us all in our time
In our turn
(Valjean leaves the garden. Marius and Eponine arrive outside)
MARIUS
In my life
She has burst like the music of angels
The light of the sun
And my life seems to stop
As if something is over
And something has scarcely begun.
Eponine
You're the friend who has brought me here
Thanks to you I am one with the gods
And Heaven is near!
And I soar through a world that is new that is free
EPONINE(to herself)
Every word that he says is a dagger in me!
In my life
There's been no one like him anywhere
Anywhere, where he is...
If he asked... I'd be his
MARIUS & EPONINE
In my life
There is someone who touches my life
MARIUS
Waiting near
EPONINE
Waiting here
A Heart Full of Love
(Marius goes into the garden, leaving Eponine outside the gate)
MARIUS
A heart full of love
A heart full of song
I'm doing everything all wrong
Oh God, for shame
I do not even know your name
Dear Mad'moiselle
Won't you say?
Will you tell?
COSETTE
A heart full of love
No fear, no regret
M,ARIUS
My name is Marius Pontmercy
COSETTE
And mine's Cosette
MARIUS
Cosette, I don't know what to say
COSETTE
Then make no sound
MARIUS
I am lost
COSETTE
I am found!
MARIUS
A heart full of light
COSETTE
A night bright as day
MARIUS
And you must never go away
Cosette, Cosette
COSETTE
This is a chain we'll never break
MARIUS
Do I dream?
COSETTE
I'm awake!
MARIUS
A heart full of love
COSETTE
A heart full of you
MARIUS
A single look and then I knew
COSETTE
I knew it too
MARIUS
From today
COSETTE
Every day
COSETTE & MARIUS
For it isn't a dream
Not a dream after all.
EPONINE(Interjecting)
He was never mine to lose
Why regret what cannot be?
These are words he'll never say
Not to me...
Not to me...
Not to me...
His heart full of love
He will never feel this way...
(Marius and Cosette move away as Montparnasse enters furtively)
COSETTE
How strange
This feeling that my life's begun at last
This change,
Can people really fall in love so fast?
What's the matter with you, Cosette?
Have you been too much on your own?
So many things unclear
So many things unknown.
In my life
There are so many questions and answers
That somehow seem wrong
In my life
There are times when I catch in the silence
The sigh of a faraway song
And it sings
Of a world that I long to see
Out of reach
Just a whisper away
Waiting for me.
Does he know I'm alive?
Do I know if he's real?
Does he see what I saw?
Does he feel what I feel?
In my life
I'm no longer alone
Now the love in my life
Is so near
Find me now, find me here!
VALJEAN
Dear Cosette,
You're such a lonely child
How pensive, how sad you seem to me
Believe me, were it within my power
I'd fill each passing hour
How quiet it must be, I can see
With only me for company.
COSETTE
There's so little I know
That I'm longing to know
Of the child that I was
In a time long ago...
There's so little you say
Of the life you have known
Why you keep to yourself
Why we're always alone
So dark! So dark and deep...
The secrets that you keep!
In my life
I have all that I want
You are loving and gentle and good
But Papa, dear Papa,
In your eyes I am just like a child
Who is lost in a wood
VALJEAN
No more words
No more words. It's a time that is dead
There are words
That are better unheard,
Better unsaid.
COSETTE
In my life
I'm no longer a child and I yearn
For the truth that you know
Of the years... years ago!
VALJEAN
You will learn
Truth is given by God
To us all in our time
In our turn
(Valjean leaves the garden. Marius and Eponine arrive outside)
MARIUS
In my life
She has burst like the music of angels
The light of the sun
And my life seems to stop
As if something is over
And something has scarcely begun.
Eponine
You're the friend who has brought me here
Thanks to you I am one with the gods
And Heaven is near!
And I soar through a world that is new that is free
EPONINE(to herself)
Every word that he says is a dagger in me!
In my life
There's been no one like him anywhere
Anywhere, where he is...
If he asked... I'd be his
MARIUS & EPONINE
In my life
There is someone who touches my life
MARIUS
Waiting near
EPONINE
Waiting here
A Heart Full of Love
(Marius goes into the garden, leaving Eponine outside the gate)
MARIUS
A heart full of love
A heart full of song
I'm doing everything all wrong
Oh God, for shame
I do not even know your name
Dear Mad'moiselle
Won't you say?
Will you tell?
COSETTE
A heart full of love
No fear, no regret
M,ARIUS
My name is Marius Pontmercy
COSETTE
And mine's Cosette
MARIUS
Cosette, I don't know what to say
COSETTE
Then make no sound
MARIUS
I am lost
COSETTE
I am found!
MARIUS
A heart full of light
COSETTE
A night bright as day
MARIUS
And you must never go away
Cosette, Cosette
COSETTE
This is a chain we'll never break
MARIUS
Do I dream?
COSETTE
I'm awake!
MARIUS
A heart full of love
COSETTE
A heart full of you
MARIUS
A single look and then I knew
COSETTE
I knew it too
MARIUS
From today
COSETTE
Every day
COSETTE & MARIUS
For it isn't a dream
Not a dream after all.
EPONINE(Interjecting)
He was never mine to lose
Why regret what cannot be?
These are words he'll never say
Not to me...
Not to me...
Not to me...
His heart full of love
He will never feel this way...
(Marius and Cosette move away as Montparnasse enters furtively)
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
A Heart Full of Love
by Les Miserables Cast
[Marius goes into the garden, leaving Eponine outside.]
MARIUS
A heart full of love,
A heart full of song,
I'm doing everything all wrong,
Oh God, for shame,
I do not even know your name,
Dear Mad'moiselle,
Won't you say?
Will you tell?
COSETTE
A heart full of love
No fear, no regret
MARIUS
My name is Marius Pontmercy
COSETTE
And mine's Cosette
MARIUS
Cosette, I don't know what to say
COSETTE
Then make no sound
MARIUS
I am lost
COSETTE
I am found!
MARIUS
A heart full of light
COSETTE
A night bright as day
MARIUS
And you must never go away
Cosette, Cosette
COSETTE
This is a chain we'll never break
MARIUS
Do I dream?
COSETTE
I'm awake!
MARIUS
A heart full of love
EPONINE [outside, interjecting]
He was never mine to lose
COSETTE
A heart full of you
EPONINE
Why regret what could not be?
MARIUS
A single look and then I knew.
EPONINE
These are words he'll never say
COSETTE
I knew it too.
EPONINE
Not to me...
MARIUS
From today...
EPONINE
Not to me...
COSETTE
Every day
EPONINE
Not for me...
COSETTE & MARIUS
For it isn't a dream
EPONINE
His heart full of love
COSETTE & MARIUS
Not a dream
EPONINE
He will never
COSETTE & MARIUS
After all!
EPONINE
Feel this way...
MARIUS
A heart full of love,
A heart full of song,
I'm doing everything all wrong,
Oh God, for shame,
I do not even know your name,
Dear Mad'moiselle,
Won't you say?
Will you tell?
COSETTE
A heart full of love
No fear, no regret
MARIUS
My name is Marius Pontmercy
COSETTE
And mine's Cosette
MARIUS
Cosette, I don't know what to say
COSETTE
Then make no sound
MARIUS
I am lost
COSETTE
I am found!
MARIUS
A heart full of light
COSETTE
A night bright as day
MARIUS
And you must never go away
Cosette, Cosette
COSETTE
This is a chain we'll never break
MARIUS
Do I dream?
COSETTE
I'm awake!
MARIUS
A heart full of love
EPONINE [outside, interjecting]
He was never mine to lose
COSETTE
A heart full of you
EPONINE
Why regret what could not be?
MARIUS
A single look and then I knew.
EPONINE
These are words he'll never say
COSETTE
I knew it too.
EPONINE
Not to me...
MARIUS
From today...
EPONINE
Not to me...
COSETTE
Every day
EPONINE
Not for me...
COSETTE & MARIUS
For it isn't a dream
EPONINE
His heart full of love
COSETTE & MARIUS
Not a dream
EPONINE
He will never
COSETTE & MARIUS
After all!
EPONINE
Feel this way...
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Plumet Attack
by Les Miserables Cast
EPONINE
'Parnasse, what are you doing
So far out of our patch?
MONTPARNASSE
This house, we're going to do it
Rich man, plenty of scratch
You remember he's the one
Who got away the other day
Got a number on his chest
Perhaps a fortune put away!
EPONINE
Oh Lord, somebody help me!
Dear God, what'll I do?
He'll think this is an ambush
He'll think I'm in it too!
What'll I do, what'll I say?
I've got to warn them here
I've got to find a way.
(Thenardier arrives with the rest of his gang)
THENARDIER
This is his lair
I've seen the old fox around
He keeps himself to himself
He's staying close to the ground
I smell profit here!
Ten years ago
He came and paid for Cosette
I let her go for a song
It's time we settled the debt
This'll cost him dear
BRUJON
What do I care
Who you should rob?
Gimme me my share
Finish the job!
THENARDIER
You shut your mouth
Give me your hand
BRUJON
(catching sight of Eponine)
What have we here?
THENARDIER
(not recognizing her)
Who is this hussy?
BABET
It's your brat Eponine
Don't you know your own kid
Why's she hanging about you?
THENARDIER
Eponine, get on home
You're not needed in this
We're enough here without you
EPONINE
I know this house
I tell you there's nothing here for you
Just the old man and the girl
They live ordinary lives
THENARDIER
Don't interfere
You've got some gall
Take care, young miss,
You've got a lot to say!
BRUJON
She's going soft
CLAQUESOUS
Happens to all
MONTPARNASSE
Go home, 'Ponine,
Go home, you're in the way
EPONINE
I'm gonna scream, I'm gonna warn them here.
THENARDIER
One little scream and you'll regret it for a year.
CLAQUESOUS
What a palaver
What an absolute treat
To watch a cat and its father
Pick a bone in the street
BRUJON
Not a sound out of you!
EPONINE
Well I told you I'd do it, told you I'd do it...
(She screams)
THENARDIER
You wait my girl, you'll rue this night
I'll make you scream, you'll scream alright
Make for the sewers, don't wait around
Leave her to me, go underground!
(The gang scatters. Marius and Cosette run back into the garden and he hurriedly introduces Eponine before she takes
off)
MARIUS
It was your cry sent them away
Once more 'Ponine saving the day
Dearest Cosette - my friend 'Ponine
Brought me to you, showed me the way!
Someone is near
Let's not be seen
Somebody's here!
(Marius leaves quickly as Valjean enters)
VALJEAN
My God, Cosette!
I heard a cry in the dark
I heard the shout of angry voices in the street.
COSETTE
That was my cry you heard, Papa,
I was afraid of what they'd do.
They ran away when they heard my cry.
VALJEAN
Cosette, my child, what will become of you?
COSETTE
Three men I saw beyond the wall
Three men in shadow moving fast
VALJEAN
This is a warning to us all
These are the shadows of the past
Must be Javert!
He's found my cover at last!
I've got to get Cosette away
Before they return!
We must get away from shadows
They will never let us be
Tomorrow to Calais...
And then a ship across the sea!
Hurry, Cosette, prepare to leave and say no more,
Tomorrow we'll away!
Hurry, Cosette, it's time to close another door
And live another day!
'Parnasse, what are you doing
So far out of our patch?
MONTPARNASSE
This house, we're going to do it
Rich man, plenty of scratch
You remember he's the one
Who got away the other day
Got a number on his chest
Perhaps a fortune put away!
EPONINE
Oh Lord, somebody help me!
Dear God, what'll I do?
He'll think this is an ambush
He'll think I'm in it too!
What'll I do, what'll I say?
I've got to warn them here
I've got to find a way.
(Thenardier arrives with the rest of his gang)
THENARDIER
This is his lair
I've seen the old fox around
He keeps himself to himself
He's staying close to the ground
I smell profit here!
Ten years ago
He came and paid for Cosette
I let her go for a song
It's time we settled the debt
This'll cost him dear
BRUJON
What do I care
Who you should rob?
Gimme me my share
Finish the job!
THENARDIER
You shut your mouth
Give me your hand
BRUJON
(catching sight of Eponine)
What have we here?
THENARDIER
(not recognizing her)
Who is this hussy?
BABET
It's your brat Eponine
Don't you know your own kid
Why's she hanging about you?
THENARDIER
Eponine, get on home
You're not needed in this
We're enough here without you
EPONINE
I know this house
I tell you there's nothing here for you
Just the old man and the girl
They live ordinary lives
THENARDIER
Don't interfere
You've got some gall
Take care, young miss,
You've got a lot to say!
BRUJON
She's going soft
CLAQUESOUS
Happens to all
MONTPARNASSE
Go home, 'Ponine,
Go home, you're in the way
EPONINE
I'm gonna scream, I'm gonna warn them here.
THENARDIER
One little scream and you'll regret it for a year.
CLAQUESOUS
What a palaver
What an absolute treat
To watch a cat and its father
Pick a bone in the street
BRUJON
Not a sound out of you!
EPONINE
Well I told you I'd do it, told you I'd do it...
(She screams)
THENARDIER
You wait my girl, you'll rue this night
I'll make you scream, you'll scream alright
Make for the sewers, don't wait around
Leave her to me, go underground!
(The gang scatters. Marius and Cosette run back into the garden and he hurriedly introduces Eponine before she takes
off)
MARIUS
It was your cry sent them away
Once more 'Ponine saving the day
Dearest Cosette - my friend 'Ponine
Brought me to you, showed me the way!
Someone is near
Let's not be seen
Somebody's here!
(Marius leaves quickly as Valjean enters)
VALJEAN
My God, Cosette!
I heard a cry in the dark
I heard the shout of angry voices in the street.
COSETTE
That was my cry you heard, Papa,
I was afraid of what they'd do.
They ran away when they heard my cry.
VALJEAN
Cosette, my child, what will become of you?
COSETTE
Three men I saw beyond the wall
Three men in shadow moving fast
VALJEAN
This is a warning to us all
These are the shadows of the past
Must be Javert!
He's found my cover at last!
I've got to get Cosette away
Before they return!
We must get away from shadows
They will never let us be
Tomorrow to Calais...
And then a ship across the sea!
Hurry, Cosette, prepare to leave and say no more,
Tomorrow we'll away!
Hurry, Cosette, it's time to close another door
And live another day!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
One Day More!
by Les Miserables Cast
VALJEAN
One day more!
Another day, another destiny.
This never-ending road to Calvary;
These men who seem to know my crime
Will surely come a second time.
One day more!
MARIUS
I did not live until today.
How can I live when we are parted?
VALJEAN
One day more.
MARIUS & COSETTE
Tomorrow you'll be worlds away
And yet with you, my world has started!
EPONINE
One more day all on my own.
MARIUS & COSETTE
Will we ever meet again?
EPONINE
One more day with him not caring.
MARIUS & COSETTE
I was born to be with you.
EPONINE
What a life I might have known.
MARIUS & COSETTE
And I swear I will be true!
EPONINE
But he never saw me there!
ENJOLRAS
One more day before the storm!
MARIUS
Do I follow where she goes?
ENJOLRAS
At the barricades of freedom.
MARIUS
Shall I join my brothers there?
ENJOLRAS
When our ranks begin to form
MARIUS
Do I stay; do I dare?
ENJOLRAS
Will you take your place with me?
ALL
The time is now, the day is here!
VALJEAN
One day more!
JAVERT
One day more to revolution,
We will nip it in the bud!
We'll be ready for these schoolboys
They will wet themselves with blood!
VALJEAN
One day more!
M. & MME. THENARDIER
Watch 'em run amuck,
Catch 'em as they fall,
Never know your luck
When there's a free for all,
Here a little `dip'
There a little `touch'
Most of them are goners
So they won't miss much!
Students (2 Groups)
1: One day to a new beginning
2: Raise the flag of freedom high!
1: Every man will be a king
2: Every man will be a king
1: There's a new world for the winning
2: There's a new world to be won
ALL
Do you hear the people sing?
MARIUS
My place is here, I fight with you!
VALJEAN
One day more!
MARIUS & COSETTE
I did not live until today.
EPONINE
One more day all on my own!
MARIUS & COSETTE
How can I live when we are parted?
JAVERT(overlapping)
We will join these people's heroes
We will follow where they go
We will learn their little Secrets,
We will know the things they know.
VALJEAN
One day more!
MARIUS & COSETTE
Tomorrow you'll be worlds away
EPONINE
What a life I might have known!
MARIUS & COSETTE
And yet with you my world has started
JAVERT(overlapping)
One more day to revolution
We will nip it in the bud
We'll be ready for these schoolboys
THENARDIERS(overlapping)
Watch 'em run amok
Catch 'em as they fall
Never know your luck
When there's a free-for-all!
VALJEAN
Tomorrow we'll be far away,
Tomorrow is the judgement day
ALL
Tomorrow we'll discover
What our God in Heaven has in store!
One more dawn
One more day
One day more!
One day more!
Another day, another destiny.
This never-ending road to Calvary;
These men who seem to know my crime
Will surely come a second time.
One day more!
MARIUS
I did not live until today.
How can I live when we are parted?
VALJEAN
One day more.
MARIUS & COSETTE
Tomorrow you'll be worlds away
And yet with you, my world has started!
EPONINE
One more day all on my own.
MARIUS & COSETTE
Will we ever meet again?
EPONINE
One more day with him not caring.
MARIUS & COSETTE
I was born to be with you.
EPONINE
What a life I might have known.
MARIUS & COSETTE
And I swear I will be true!
EPONINE
But he never saw me there!
ENJOLRAS
One more day before the storm!
MARIUS
Do I follow where she goes?
ENJOLRAS
At the barricades of freedom.
MARIUS
Shall I join my brothers there?
ENJOLRAS
When our ranks begin to form
MARIUS
Do I stay; do I dare?
ENJOLRAS
Will you take your place with me?
ALL
The time is now, the day is here!
VALJEAN
One day more!
JAVERT
One day more to revolution,
We will nip it in the bud!
We'll be ready for these schoolboys
They will wet themselves with blood!
VALJEAN
One day more!
M. & MME. THENARDIER
Watch 'em run amuck,
Catch 'em as they fall,
Never know your luck
When there's a free for all,
Here a little `dip'
There a little `touch'
Most of them are goners
So they won't miss much!
Students (2 Groups)
1: One day to a new beginning
2: Raise the flag of freedom high!
1: Every man will be a king
2: Every man will be a king
1: There's a new world for the winning
2: There's a new world to be won
ALL
Do you hear the people sing?
MARIUS
My place is here, I fight with you!
VALJEAN
One day more!
MARIUS & COSETTE
I did not live until today.
EPONINE
One more day all on my own!
MARIUS & COSETTE
How can I live when we are parted?
JAVERT(overlapping)
We will join these people's heroes
We will follow where they go
We will learn their little Secrets,
We will know the things they know.
VALJEAN
One day more!
MARIUS & COSETTE
Tomorrow you'll be worlds away
EPONINE
What a life I might have known!
MARIUS & COSETTE
And yet with you my world has started
JAVERT(overlapping)
One more day to revolution
We will nip it in the bud
We'll be ready for these schoolboys
THENARDIERS(overlapping)
Watch 'em run amok
Catch 'em as they fall
Never know your luck
When there's a free-for-all!
VALJEAN
Tomorrow we'll be far away,
Tomorrow is the judgement day
ALL
Tomorrow we'll discover
What our God in Heaven has in store!
One more dawn
One more day
One day more!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
AT THE BARRICADE
by Les Miserables Cast
(Enjolras is addressing the revolutionaries)
ENJOLRAS
Here upon these stones
We will build our barricade
In the heart of the city
We claim as our own!
Each man to his duty
And don't be afraid.
Wait! I will need a report
On the strength of the foe.
JAVERT(disguised as a rebel)
I can find out the truth
I know their ways
Fought their wars
Served my time
In the days
Of my youth.
PROUVAIRE
Now the people will fight
GRANTAIRE
And so they might
Dogs will bark
Fleas will bite.
LESGLES
They will do what is right!
(Marius spots Eponine, who is dressed as a boy)
MARIUS
Hey, little boy, what's this I see?
God, Eponine, the things you do!
EPONINE
I know this is no place for me,
Still, I would rather be with you!
MARIUS
Get out before the trouble starts.
Get out, 'Ponine, you might get shot!
EPONINE
I've got you worried now, I have
That shows you like me quite a lot!
MARIUS
There is a way that you can help
You are the answer to a prayer!
Please take this letter to Cosette
And pray to God that she's still there!
EPONINE
Little you know!
Little you care!
(She walks to the Rue Plumet, where she meets Valjean)
EPONINE
I have a letter M'sieur
It's addressed to your daughter, Cosette
It's from a boy at the barricade, Sir,
In the Rue de Villette.
VALJEAN
Give me that letter here, my boy.
EPONINE
He said to give it to Cosette
VALJEAN
You have my word that my daughter will know
What this letter contains.
(He gives her a coin)
Tell the young man she will read it tomorrow
And here's for your pains
Go careful now, stay out of sight
There's danger in the streets tonight.
(He opens the letter... and reads it)
"Dearest Cosette, you have entered my soul
And soon you will be gone.
Can it be only a day since we met
And the world was reborn?
If I should fall in the battle to come
Let this be my goodbye...
Now that I know you love me as well
It is harder to die...
I pray that god will bring me home
To be with you.
Pray for your Marius. He prays for you!"
(Valjean goes in, leaving Eponine alone)
ENJOLRAS
Here upon these stones
We will build our barricade
In the heart of the city
We claim as our own!
Each man to his duty
And don't be afraid.
Wait! I will need a report
On the strength of the foe.
JAVERT(disguised as a rebel)
I can find out the truth
I know their ways
Fought their wars
Served my time
In the days
Of my youth.
PROUVAIRE
Now the people will fight
GRANTAIRE
And so they might
Dogs will bark
Fleas will bite.
LESGLES
They will do what is right!
(Marius spots Eponine, who is dressed as a boy)
MARIUS
Hey, little boy, what's this I see?
God, Eponine, the things you do!
EPONINE
I know this is no place for me,
Still, I would rather be with you!
MARIUS
Get out before the trouble starts.
Get out, 'Ponine, you might get shot!
EPONINE
I've got you worried now, I have
That shows you like me quite a lot!
MARIUS
There is a way that you can help
You are the answer to a prayer!
Please take this letter to Cosette
And pray to God that she's still there!
EPONINE
Little you know!
Little you care!
(She walks to the Rue Plumet, where she meets Valjean)
EPONINE
I have a letter M'sieur
It's addressed to your daughter, Cosette
It's from a boy at the barricade, Sir,
In the Rue de Villette.
VALJEAN
Give me that letter here, my boy.
EPONINE
He said to give it to Cosette
VALJEAN
You have my word that my daughter will know
What this letter contains.
(He gives her a coin)
Tell the young man she will read it tomorrow
And here's for your pains
Go careful now, stay out of sight
There's danger in the streets tonight.
(He opens the letter... and reads it)
"Dearest Cosette, you have entered my soul
And soon you will be gone.
Can it be only a day since we met
And the world was reborn?
If I should fall in the battle to come
Let this be my goodbye...
Now that I know you love me as well
It is harder to die...
I pray that god will bring me home
To be with you.
Pray for your Marius. He prays for you!"
(Valjean goes in, leaving Eponine alone)
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
On My Own
by Les Misérables Cast
And now I'm all alone again
Nowhere to go, no one to turn to
Without a home, without a friend
Without a face to say hello to
And now the night is near
And now I can make-believe he's here
Sometimes I walk alone at night
When everybody else is sleeping
I think of him and then I'm happy
With the company I'm keeping
The city goes to bed
And I can live inside my head
On my own, pretending he's beside me
All alone, I walk with him 'til morning
Without him, I feel his arms around me
And when I lose my way I close my eyes and he has found me
In the rain, the pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
And all I see is him and me, forever and forever
And I know, it's only in my mind
That I'm talking to myself, and not to him
And although, I know that he is blind
Still I say there's a way for us
I love him, but when the night is over
He is gone, the river's just a river
Without him, the world around me changes
The trees are bare and everywhere the streets are full of strangers
I love him, but every day I'm learning
All my life, I've only been pretending
Without me, his world will go on turning
The world is full of happiness that I have never known
I love him
I love him
I love him
But only on my own
Nowhere to go, no one to turn to
Without a home, without a friend
Without a face to say hello to
And now the night is near
And now I can make-believe he's here
Sometimes I walk alone at night
When everybody else is sleeping
I think of him and then I'm happy
With the company I'm keeping
The city goes to bed
And I can live inside my head
On my own, pretending he's beside me
All alone, I walk with him 'til morning
Without him, I feel his arms around me
And when I lose my way I close my eyes and he has found me
In the rain, the pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
And all I see is him and me, forever and forever
And I know, it's only in my mind
That I'm talking to myself, and not to him
And although, I know that he is blind
Still I say there's a way for us
I love him, but when the night is over
He is gone, the river's just a river
Without him, the world around me changes
The trees are bare and everywhere the streets are full of strangers
I love him, but every day I'm learning
All my life, I've only been pretending
Without me, his world will go on turning
The world is full of happiness that I have never known
I love him
I love him
I love him
But only on my own
Writer: Herbert Kretzmer, Jean Marc Natel, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Alain Albert Boublil, John Caird, Trevor Robert Nunn
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Copyright: Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Upon These Stones / Building the Barricade
by Les Miserables Cast
STUDENTS
Now we pledge ourselves to hold this barricade
Let them come in their legions
and they will be met!
Have faith in yourselves
And don't be afraid
Let's give 'em a screwing
they'll never forget!
This is where it begins!
And if I should die
in the fight to be free
Where the fighting is hardest
There will I be!
Let them come if they dare!
We'll be there!
[Army officer offstage]
ARMY OFFICER
You of the barricade listen to this!
No one is coming to help you to fight!
You're on your own
You have no friends
Give up!
Your guns or die!
ENJOLRAS
Damn, their warnings
Damn their lies!
They will see the people rise!
STUDENTS
Damn, their warnings
Damn their lies!
They will see the people rise!
Now we pledge ourselves to hold this barricade
Let them come in their legions
and they will be met!
Have faith in yourselves
And don't be afraid
Let's give 'em a screwing
they'll never forget!
This is where it begins!
And if I should die
in the fight to be free
Where the fighting is hardest
There will I be!
Let them come if they dare!
We'll be there!
[Army officer offstage]
ARMY OFFICER
You of the barricade listen to this!
No one is coming to help you to fight!
You're on your own
You have no friends
Give up!
Your guns or die!
ENJOLRAS
Damn, their warnings
Damn their lies!
They will see the people rise!
STUDENTS
Damn, their warnings
Damn their lies!
They will see the people rise!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Javert at the Barricade/Little People
by Les Miserables Cast
JAVERT
Listen my friends
i have done as i said
I have been to their lines
I have counted each man.
I will tell what i can.
Better be warned they have armies to spare
and the danger is real
We will need all our cunning.
to bring them to yield
Enjolras
Have faith
If you know what there movments are we'll spoil their game there are ways that our people can fight
we shall over come there power!
JAVVERT
I have overheard their plans
there will be no attack tonight
they intend to starve us out
before they start a proper fight
concentrate their force
hits us from the right.
GRAVOCHE
Liar!
Good evening, dear inspector
Lovely evening, my dear.
I know this man, my friends
His name is Inspector Javert
So don't believe a word he says
'Cause none of it's true
This only goes to show
What little people can do!
And little people know
When little people fight
We may look easy pickings
But we've got some bite
So never kick a dog
Because he's just a pup
We'll fight like twenty armies
And we won't give up
So you'd better run for cover
When the pup grows up!
Listen my friends
i have done as i said
I have been to their lines
I have counted each man.
I will tell what i can.
Better be warned they have armies to spare
and the danger is real
We will need all our cunning.
to bring them to yield
Enjolras
Have faith
If you know what there movments are we'll spoil their game there are ways that our people can fight
we shall over come there power!
JAVVERT
I have overheard their plans
there will be no attack tonight
they intend to starve us out
before they start a proper fight
concentrate their force
hits us from the right.
GRAVOCHE
Liar!
Good evening, dear inspector
Lovely evening, my dear.
I know this man, my friends
His name is Inspector Javert
So don't believe a word he says
'Cause none of it's true
This only goes to show
What little people can do!
And little people know
When little people fight
We may look easy pickings
But we've got some bite
So never kick a dog
Because he's just a pup
We'll fight like twenty armies
And we won't give up
So you'd better run for cover
When the pup grows up!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
The First Attack
by Les Miserables Cast
(Enjolras gives Valjean a gun)
ENJOLRAS
Take this and use it well!
But if you shoot us in the back,
You'll never live to tell.
STUDENT ONE
Platoon of sappers advancing toward the barricade!
STUDENT TWO
Troops behind them, fifty men or more!
ENJOLRAS
Fire!
(Gunfire is heard)
FEUILLY
Sniper!
(Valjean shoots a sniper who is aiming at Enjolras)
LESGLES
See how they run away!
GRANTAIRE
By God we've won the day!
ENJOLRAS
They will be back again,
Make an attack again.
(To Valjean.)
For your presence of mind
For the deed you have done
I will thank you M'sieur
When our battle is won.
VALJEAN
Give me no thanks M'sieur
There is something you can do.
ENJOLRAS
If it is in my power.
VALJEAN
Give me the spy Javert
Let me take care of him!
JAVERT
The law is inside out
The world is upside down
ENJOLRAS
Do what you have to do,
The man belongs to you.
The enemy may be regrouping. Hold yourself in readiness.
Come my friends, back to your positions.
The night is falling fast.
VALJEAN
We meet again.
JAVERT
You've hungered for this all your life;
Take your revenge!
How right you should kill with a knife!
(Valjean cuts the ropes which bind Javert.)
VALJEAN
You talk too much,
Your life is safe in my hands.
JAVERT
Don't understand
VALJEAN
Get out of here.
JAVERT
Valjean, take care!
I'm warning you...
VALJEAN
Clear out of here.
JAVERT
Once a thief, forever a thief
What you want you always steal!
You would trade your life for mine.
Yes, Valjean, you want a deal!
Shoot me now for all I care!
If you let me go, beware,
You'll still answer to Javert!
VALJEAN
You are wrong, and always have been wrong.
I'm a man, no worse than any man.
You are free, and there are no conditions,
No bargains or petitions.
There's nothing that I blame you for
You've done your duty, nothing more.
If I come out of this alive, you'll find me
At number fifty-five Rue Plumet
No doubt our paths will cross again.
(Valjean fires his gun into the air, Javert leaves quickly. Muted applause from the students who think Javert has been shot)
ENJOLRAS
Courfeyrac, you take the watch
They won't attack until it's light
Everybody stay awake
We must be ready for the fight
For the final fight
Let no one sleep tonight!
ENJOLRAS
Take this and use it well!
But if you shoot us in the back,
You'll never live to tell.
STUDENT ONE
Platoon of sappers advancing toward the barricade!
STUDENT TWO
Troops behind them, fifty men or more!
ENJOLRAS
Fire!
(Gunfire is heard)
FEUILLY
Sniper!
(Valjean shoots a sniper who is aiming at Enjolras)
LESGLES
See how they run away!
GRANTAIRE
By God we've won the day!
ENJOLRAS
They will be back again,
Make an attack again.
(To Valjean.)
For your presence of mind
For the deed you have done
I will thank you M'sieur
When our battle is won.
VALJEAN
Give me no thanks M'sieur
There is something you can do.
ENJOLRAS
If it is in my power.
VALJEAN
Give me the spy Javert
Let me take care of him!
JAVERT
The law is inside out
The world is upside down
ENJOLRAS
Do what you have to do,
The man belongs to you.
The enemy may be regrouping. Hold yourself in readiness.
Come my friends, back to your positions.
The night is falling fast.
VALJEAN
We meet again.
JAVERT
You've hungered for this all your life;
Take your revenge!
How right you should kill with a knife!
(Valjean cuts the ropes which bind Javert.)
VALJEAN
You talk too much,
Your life is safe in my hands.
JAVERT
Don't understand
VALJEAN
Get out of here.
JAVERT
Valjean, take care!
I'm warning you...
VALJEAN
Clear out of here.
JAVERT
Once a thief, forever a thief
What you want you always steal!
You would trade your life for mine.
Yes, Valjean, you want a deal!
Shoot me now for all I care!
If you let me go, beware,
You'll still answer to Javert!
VALJEAN
You are wrong, and always have been wrong.
I'm a man, no worse than any man.
You are free, and there are no conditions,
No bargains or petitions.
There's nothing that I blame you for
You've done your duty, nothing more.
If I come out of this alive, you'll find me
At number fifty-five Rue Plumet
No doubt our paths will cross again.
(Valjean fires his gun into the air, Javert leaves quickly. Muted applause from the students who think Javert has been shot)
ENJOLRAS
Courfeyrac, you take the watch
They won't attack until it's light
Everybody stay awake
We must be ready for the fight
For the final fight
Let no one sleep tonight!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
A Little Fall of Rain
by Les Miserables Cast
MARIUS
Good God, what are you doing?
'Ponine, have you no fear?
Have you seen my beloved?
Why have you come back here?
EPONINE
Took the letter like you said
I met her father at the door
He said he would give it
I don't think I can stand anymore
MARIUS
Eponine, what's wrong?
There's something wet upon your hair
Eponine, you're hurt
You need some help
Oh, God, it's everywhere!
EPONINE
Don't you fret, M'sieur Marius
I don't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now
You're here, that's all I need to know
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
And rain will make the flowers grow.
MARIUS
But you will live, 'Ponine - dear God above,
If I could heal your wounds with words of love.
EPONINE
Just hold me now, and let it be.
Shelter me, comfort me
MARIUS
You would live a hundred years
If I could show you how
I won't desert you now...
EPONINE
The rain can't hurt me now
This rain will wash away what's past
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
I'll sleep in your embrace at last.
The rain that brings you here
Is Heaven-blessed!
The skies begin to clear
And I'm at rest
A breath away from where you are
I've come home from so far
So don't you fret, M'sieur Marius
I don't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now
That's all I need to know
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
MARIUS(in counterpoint)
Hush-a-bye, dear Eponine,
You won't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt you now
I'm here
I will stay with you
Till you are sleeping
EPONINE
And rain...
MARIUS
And rain...
EPONINE
Will make the flowers...
MARIUS
Will make the flowers... grow...
(She dies. Marius kisses her, then lays her on the ground)
ENJOLRAS
She is the first to fall
The first of us to fall upon this barricade
MARIUS
Her name was Eponine
Her life was cold and dark, yet she was unafraid.
COMBEFERRE
We fight here in her name
PROUVAIRE
She will not die in vain.
LESGLES
She will not be betrayed.
(They carry her body off)
Good God, what are you doing?
'Ponine, have you no fear?
Have you seen my beloved?
Why have you come back here?
EPONINE
Took the letter like you said
I met her father at the door
He said he would give it
I don't think I can stand anymore
MARIUS
Eponine, what's wrong?
There's something wet upon your hair
Eponine, you're hurt
You need some help
Oh, God, it's everywhere!
EPONINE
Don't you fret, M'sieur Marius
I don't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now
You're here, that's all I need to know
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
And rain will make the flowers grow.
MARIUS
But you will live, 'Ponine - dear God above,
If I could heal your wounds with words of love.
EPONINE
Just hold me now, and let it be.
Shelter me, comfort me
MARIUS
You would live a hundred years
If I could show you how
I won't desert you now...
EPONINE
The rain can't hurt me now
This rain will wash away what's past
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
I'll sleep in your embrace at last.
The rain that brings you here
Is Heaven-blessed!
The skies begin to clear
And I'm at rest
A breath away from where you are
I've come home from so far
So don't you fret, M'sieur Marius
I don't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now
That's all I need to know
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
MARIUS(in counterpoint)
Hush-a-bye, dear Eponine,
You won't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt you now
I'm here
I will stay with you
Till you are sleeping
EPONINE
And rain...
MARIUS
And rain...
EPONINE
Will make the flowers...
MARIUS
Will make the flowers... grow...
(She dies. Marius kisses her, then lays her on the ground)
ENJOLRAS
She is the first to fall
The first of us to fall upon this barricade
MARIUS
Her name was Eponine
Her life was cold and dark, yet she was unafraid.
COMBEFERRE
We fight here in her name
PROUVAIRE
She will not die in vain.
LESGLES
She will not be betrayed.
(They carry her body off)
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
The night / Drink With Me
by Les Miserables Cast
The defenders settle down for the night with wine and a song)
ENJOLRAS
Marius, rest.
FEUILLY
Drink with me to days gone by
Sing with me the songs we knew
PROUVAIRE
Here's to pretty girls who went to our heads.
JOLY
Here's to witty girls who went to our beds.
ALL
Here's to them and here's to you!
GRANTAIRE
Drink with me to days gone by
Can it be you fear to die?
Will the world remember you
When you fall?
Could it be your death
Means nothing at all?
Is your life just one more lie?
ALL
Drink with me to days gone by
To the life that used to be
WOMEN
At the shrine of friendship, never say die
MEN
Let the wine of friendship never run dry
ALL
Here's to you and here's to me
MARIUS
Do I care if I should die
Now she goes across the sea?
Life without Cosette
Means nothing at all.
Would you weep, Cosette,
Should Marius fall?
Will you weep, Cosette,
For me?
(Marius settles down to sleep)
ENJOLRAS
Marius, rest.
FEUILLY
Drink with me to days gone by
Sing with me the songs we knew
PROUVAIRE
Here's to pretty girls who went to our heads.
JOLY
Here's to witty girls who went to our beds.
ALL
Here's to them and here's to you!
GRANTAIRE
Drink with me to days gone by
Can it be you fear to die?
Will the world remember you
When you fall?
Could it be your death
Means nothing at all?
Is your life just one more lie?
ALL
Drink with me to days gone by
To the life that used to be
WOMEN
At the shrine of friendship, never say die
MEN
Let the wine of friendship never run dry
ALL
Here's to you and here's to me
MARIUS
Do I care if I should die
Now she goes across the sea?
Life without Cosette
Means nothing at all.
Would you weep, Cosette,
Should Marius fall?
Will you weep, Cosette,
For me?
(Marius settles down to sleep)
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Bring Him Home
by Les Miserables Cast
(Valjean is standing over Marius at the barricade)
VALJEAN
God on high
Hear my prayer
In my need
You have always been there
He is young
He's afraid
Let him rest
Heaven blessed.
Bring him home
Bring him home
Bring him home.
He's like the son I might have known
If God had granted me a son.
The summers die
One by one
How soon they fly
On and on
And I am old
And will be gone.
Bring him peace
Bring him joy
He is young
He is only a boy
You can take
You can give
Let him be
Let him live
If I die, let me die
Let him live
Bring him home
Bring him home
Bring him home.
VALJEAN
God on high
Hear my prayer
In my need
You have always been there
He is young
He's afraid
Let him rest
Heaven blessed.
Bring him home
Bring him home
Bring him home.
He's like the son I might have known
If God had granted me a son.
The summers die
One by one
How soon they fly
On and on
And I am old
And will be gone.
Bring him peace
Bring him joy
He is young
He is only a boy
You can take
You can give
Let him be
Let him live
If I die, let me die
Let him live
Bring him home
Bring him home
Bring him home.
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Dog Eats Dog
by Les Miserables Cast
THENARDIER
Here's a hint of gold
Stuck into a tooth
Pardon me M'sieur
You won't be needing it no more.
Shouldn't be too hard to sell.
Add it to the pile
Add it to the stock
Here among the sewer rats
A breath away from Hell
You get accustomed to the smell.
Well someone's got to clean 'em up, my friends
Bodies on the highway
Law and order upside down
Someone's got to collect their odds and ends
As a service to the town!
(Valjean arrives, carrying MARIUS.
VALJEAN collapses)
(THENARDIER robs marius)
Here's a tasty ring
Pretty little thing
Wouldn't want to waste it
That would really be a crime
Thank you sir, I'm in your debt
Here's another toy
Take it off the boy
His heart's no longer going
And he's lived his little time
But his watch is ticking yet!
Well, someone's got to clean them up, my friends
Before the little harvest
Disappears into the mud
Someone's got to collect their odds and ends
When the gutters run with blood.
It's a world where the dog eats the dog
Where they kill for bones in the street
And God in His Heaven
He don't interfere
'Cause he's dead as the stiffs at my feet
I raise my eyes to see the heavens
And only the moon looks down
The harvest moon shines down!
(He turns over Valjean's body, recognizes him, and leaves. Eventually, Valjean picks up Marius again and walks
through the sewers. As they emerge, they meet Javert)
VALJEAN
It's you, Javert!
I knew you wouldn't wait too long
The faithful servant at his post once more!
This man's done no wrong,
And he needs a doctor's care.
JAVERT
I warned you I would not give in
I won't be swayed
VALJEAN
Another hour yet
And then I'm yours
And all our debts are paid.
JAVERT
The man of mercy comes again
And talks of justice
VALJEAN
Come, time is running short
Look down, Javert
He's standing in his grave
Give way, Javert
There is a life to save.
JAVERT(overlapping)
Take him Valjean,
Before I change my mind
I will be waiting
24601.
(Valjean carries Marius off)
Here's a hint of gold
Stuck into a tooth
Pardon me M'sieur
You won't be needing it no more.
Shouldn't be too hard to sell.
Add it to the pile
Add it to the stock
Here among the sewer rats
A breath away from Hell
You get accustomed to the smell.
Well someone's got to clean 'em up, my friends
Bodies on the highway
Law and order upside down
Someone's got to collect their odds and ends
As a service to the town!
(Valjean arrives, carrying MARIUS.
VALJEAN collapses)
(THENARDIER robs marius)
Here's a tasty ring
Pretty little thing
Wouldn't want to waste it
That would really be a crime
Thank you sir, I'm in your debt
Here's another toy
Take it off the boy
His heart's no longer going
And he's lived his little time
But his watch is ticking yet!
Well, someone's got to clean them up, my friends
Before the little harvest
Disappears into the mud
Someone's got to collect their odds and ends
When the gutters run with blood.
It's a world where the dog eats the dog
Where they kill for bones in the street
And God in His Heaven
He don't interfere
'Cause he's dead as the stiffs at my feet
I raise my eyes to see the heavens
And only the moon looks down
The harvest moon shines down!
(He turns over Valjean's body, recognizes him, and leaves. Eventually, Valjean picks up Marius again and walks
through the sewers. As they emerge, they meet Javert)
VALJEAN
It's you, Javert!
I knew you wouldn't wait too long
The faithful servant at his post once more!
This man's done no wrong,
And he needs a doctor's care.
JAVERT
I warned you I would not give in
I won't be swayed
VALJEAN
Another hour yet
And then I'm yours
And all our debts are paid.
JAVERT
The man of mercy comes again
And talks of justice
VALJEAN
Come, time is running short
Look down, Javert
He's standing in his grave
Give way, Javert
There is a life to save.
JAVERT(overlapping)
Take him Valjean,
Before I change my mind
I will be waiting
24601.
(Valjean carries Marius off)
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Javert's Suicide
by Les Misérables Cast
ShareFacebookTwitterWhatsAppMessage
(Javert walks the deserted streets until he comes to a bridge over the river Seine)
JAVERT
Who is this man?
What sort of devil is he
To have me caught in a trap
And choose to let me go free?
It was his hour at last
To put a seal on my fate
Wipe out the past
And watch me clean off the slate
All it would take
Was a flick of his knife.
Vengeance was his
And he gave me back my life!
Damned if I'll live in the debt of a thief!
Damned if I'll yield at the end of the chase.
I am the Law and the Law is not mocked
I'll spit his pity right back in his face
There is nothing on earth that we share
It is either Valjean or Javert!
How can I now allow this man
To hold dominion over me?
This desperate man whom I have hunted
He gave me my life. He gave me freedom.
I should have perished by his hand
It was his right.
It was my right to die as well
Instead I live... but live in hell.
And my thoughts fly apart
Can this man be believed?
Shall his sins be forgiven?
Shall his crimes be reprieved?
And must I now begin to doubt,
Who never doubted all these years?
My heart is stone and still it trembles
The world I have known is lost in shadow.
Is he from heaven or from hell?
And does he know
That granting me my life today
This man has killed me even so?
I am reaching, but I fall
And the stars are black and cold
As I stare into the void
Of a world that cannot hold
I'll escape now from the world
From the world of Jean Valjean.
There is nowhere I can turn
There is no way to go on....
(He throws himself into the swollen river)
(Javert walks the deserted streets until he comes to a bridge over the river Seine)
JAVERT
Who is this man?
What sort of devil is he
To have me caught in a trap
And choose to let me go free?
It was his hour at last
To put a seal on my fate
Wipe out the past
And watch me clean off the slate
All it would take
Was a flick of his knife.
Vengeance was his
And he gave me back my life!
Damned if I'll live in the debt of a thief!
Damned if I'll yield at the end of the chase.
I am the Law and the Law is not mocked
I'll spit his pity right back in his face
There is nothing on earth that we share
It is either Valjean or Javert!
How can I now allow this man
To hold dominion over me?
This desperate man whom I have hunted
He gave me my life. He gave me freedom.
I should have perished by his hand
It was his right.
It was my right to die as well
Instead I live... but live in hell.
And my thoughts fly apart
Can this man be believed?
Shall his sins be forgiven?
Shall his crimes be reprieved?
And must I now begin to doubt,
Who never doubted all these years?
My heart is stone and still it trembles
The world I have known is lost in shadow.
Is he from heaven or from hell?
And does he know
That granting me my life today
This man has killed me even so?
I am reaching, but I fall
And the stars are black and cold
As I stare into the void
Of a world that cannot hold
I'll escape now from the world
From the world of Jean Valjean.
There is nowhere I can turn
There is no way to go on....
(He throws himself into the swollen river)
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Turning
by Les Miserables Cast
WOMAN ONE
Did you see them
Going off to fight?
WOMAN TWO
Children of the barricade
Who didn't last the night?
WOMAN THREE
Did you see them
Lying where they died?
Someone used to cradle them
And kiss them when they cried.
WOMAN FOUR
Did you see them lying side by side?
WOMAN FIVE
Who will wake them?
WOMAN SIX
No one ever will.
WOMAN TWO
No one ever told them
That a summer day can kill.
WOMAN SEVEN
They were schoolboys
Never held a gun...
Fighting for a new world
That would rise up like the sun.
WOMAN THREE
Where's that new world now the fighting's done?
WOMAN FOUR
Nothing changes.
WOMAN SEVEN
Nothing ever will.
WOMAN EIGHT
Every year another brat, another mouth to fill.
WOMAN SEVEN
Same old story. What's the use of tears?
WOMAN FIVE
What's the use of praying if there's nobody who hears?
ALL
Turning, turning, turning, turning, turning
Through the years.
Turning, turning, turning through the years
Minutes into hours and the hours into years.
Nothing changes. Nothing ever can
Round about the roundabout and back where you began.
Round and round and back where you began!
Did you see them
Going off to fight?
WOMAN TWO
Children of the barricade
Who didn't last the night?
WOMAN THREE
Did you see them
Lying where they died?
Someone used to cradle them
And kiss them when they cried.
WOMAN FOUR
Did you see them lying side by side?
WOMAN FIVE
Who will wake them?
WOMAN SIX
No one ever will.
WOMAN TWO
No one ever told them
That a summer day can kill.
WOMAN SEVEN
They were schoolboys
Never held a gun...
Fighting for a new world
That would rise up like the sun.
WOMAN THREE
Where's that new world now the fighting's done?
WOMAN FOUR
Nothing changes.
WOMAN SEVEN
Nothing ever will.
WOMAN EIGHT
Every year another brat, another mouth to fill.
WOMAN SEVEN
Same old story. What's the use of tears?
WOMAN FIVE
What's the use of praying if there's nobody who hears?
ALL
Turning, turning, turning, turning, turning
Through the years.
Turning, turning, turning through the years
Minutes into hours and the hours into years.
Nothing changes. Nothing ever can
Round about the roundabout and back where you began.
Round and round and back where you began!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
by Les Miserables Cast
(Marius, recovering from his wounds, imagines he is back at the ABC cafe)
MARIUS
There's a grief that can't be spoken.
There's a pain goes on and on.
Empty chairs at empty tables
Now my friends are dead and gone.
Here they talked of revolution.
Here it was they lit the flame.
Here they sang about `tomorrow'
And tomorrow never came.
From the table in the corner
They could see a world reborn
And they rose with voices ringing
I can hear them now!
The very words that they had sung
Became their last communion
On the lonely barricade at dawn.
Oh my friends, my friends forgive me
(The ghosts of those who died on the barricade appear)
That I live and you are gone.
There's a grief that can't be spoken.
There's a pain goes on and on.
Phantom faces at the window.
Phantom shadows on the floor.
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friends will meet no more.
(The ghosts fade away)
Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me
What your sacrifice was for
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friends will sing no more
MARIUS
There's a grief that can't be spoken.
There's a pain goes on and on.
Empty chairs at empty tables
Now my friends are dead and gone.
Here they talked of revolution.
Here it was they lit the flame.
Here they sang about `tomorrow'
And tomorrow never came.
From the table in the corner
They could see a world reborn
And they rose with voices ringing
I can hear them now!
The very words that they had sung
Became their last communion
On the lonely barricade at dawn.
Oh my friends, my friends forgive me
(The ghosts of those who died on the barricade appear)
That I live and you are gone.
There's a grief that can't be spoken.
There's a pain goes on and on.
Phantom faces at the window.
Phantom shadows on the floor.
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friends will meet no more.
(The ghosts fade away)
Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me
What your sacrifice was for
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friends will sing no more
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Wedding Chorale/Beggars at the Feast
by Les Miserables Cast
(Marius and Cosette lead a wedding procession)
CHORUS
Ring out the bells
Upon this day of days!
May all the angels
Of the Lord above
In jubilation
Sing their songs of praise!
And crown this
Blessed time with
Peace and love.
(The procession becomes a dancing celebration. A waltz is played)
MAJOR DOMO
The Baron and Baroness de Thénard wish to pay their respects to the groom!
THENARDIER
I forget where we met
Was it not at the Chateau Lafarge
Where the Duke did that puke
Down the Duchess's de-coll-etage?
MARIUS
No, `Baron de Thénard'
The circles I move in are humbler by far.
Go away, Thénardier!
Do you think I don't know who you are?
MME. THENARDIER
He's not fooled. Told you so.
Show M'sieur what you've come here to show.
Tell the boy what you know!
(Applause from the dancers as the waltz finishes)
MARIUS
When I look at you, I remember Eponine.
She was more than you deserved, who gave her birth
But now she is with God and happier, I hope,
Than here on earth!
The waltz starts up again.
THENARDIER
So it goes, heaven knows
Life has dealt me some terrible blows.
MME. THENARDIER
You've got cash and a heart
You could give us a bit of a start!
We can prove, plain as ink
Your bride's father is not what you think.
THENARDIER
There's a tale I could tell
MME. THENARDIER
Information we're willing to sell...
THENARDIER
There's a man that he slew
I saw the corpse clear as I'm seeing you!
What I tell you is true!
MME. THENARDIER
Pity to disturb you at a feast like this
But five hundred francs surely wouldn't come amiss.
MARIUS
In God's name say what you have to say.
THENARDIER
But first you pay!
What I saw, clear as light,
Jean Valjean in the sewers that night.
Had this corpse on his back
Hanging there like a bloody great sack.
I was there, never fear.
Even found me this fine souvenir.
(Thénardier shows Marius a ring)
MARIUS
I know this! This was mine!
This is surely some heavenly sign!
THENARDIER
One thing more, mark this well
It was the night the barricades fell.
MARIUS
Then it's true. Then I'm right.
Jean Valjean was my savior that night!
(Marius punches Thénardier and then throws money at him)
As for you, take this too!
God forgive the things that we do.
Come my love, come Cosette,
This day's blessings are not over yet!
(Marius and Cosette leave)
====
BEGGARS AT THE FEAST
THENARDIER
Ain't it a laugh
Ain't it a treat?
Hob-nobbin' here
Among the elite?
Here comes a prince
There goes a Jew.
This one's a queer
But what can you do?
Paris at my feet
Paris in the dust
And here's me breaking bread
With the upper crust!
Beggar at the feast!
Master of the dance!
Life is easy pickings
If you grab your chance.
Everywhere you go
Law-abiding folk
Doing what is decent
But they're mostly broke!
Singing to the Lord on Sundays
Praying for the gifts He'll send.
M. & MME. THENARDIER
But we're the ones who take it
We're the ones who make it in the end!
Watch the buggers dance
Watch 'em till they drop
Keep your wits about you
And you stand on top!
Masters of the land
Always get our share
Clear away the barricades
And we're still there!
We know where the wind is blowing
Money is the stuff we smell.
And when we're rich as Croesus
Jesus! Won't we see you all in hell!
(Valjean is alone in the shadows, with a bare wooden cross for company)
VALJEAN
Alone I wait in the shadows
I count the hours till I can sleep
I dreamed a dream Cosette stood by
It made her weep to know I die.
Alone at the end of the day
Upon this wedding night I pray
Take these children, my Lord, to thy embrace
And show them grace.
God on high
Hear my prayer
Take me now
To thy care
Where You are
Let me be
Take me now
Take me there
Bring me home
Bring me home.
(Fantine's spirit appears to Valjean)
FANTINE
M'sieur, I bless your name
M'sieur, lay down your burden
You raised my child in love
And you will be with god.
VALJEAN(interjecting)
I am ready, Fantine
At the end of my days
She's the best of my life.
(Marius and Cosette rush into the room; they do not see Fantine)
COSETTE
Papa, Papa, I do not understand!
Are you alright? They said you'd gone away.
VALJEAN
Cosette, my child, am I forgiven now?
Thank God, thank God, I've lived to see this day.
MARIUS
It's you who must forgive a thoughtless fool
It's you who must forgive a thankless man
It's thanks to you that I am living
And again I lay down my life at your feet.
Cosette, your father is a saint.
When they wounded me
He took me from the barricade
Carried like a babe
And brought me home to you!
VALJEAN(to Cosette)
Now you are here
Again beside me
Now I can die in peace
For now my life is blessed...
COSETTE
You will live, Papa, you're going to live
It's too soon, too soon to say goodbye!
VALJEAN
Yes, Cosette, forbid me now to die
I'll obey,
I will try.
On this page
I write my last confession.
Read it well
When I at last am sleeping.
It's the story
Of those who always loved you.
Your mother gave her life for you
Then gave you to my keeping.
(The other spirits, including Eponine appear)
FANTINE
Come with me
Where chains will never bind you
All your grief
At last, at last behind you.
Lord in Heaven,
Look down on him in mercy.
VALJEAN
Forgive me all my trespasses
And take me to your glory.
FANTINE & EPONINE
Take my hand
And lead me to salvation.
Take my love,
For love is everlasting.
VALJEAN, FANTINE & EPONINE
And remember
The truth that once was spoken
To love another person
Is to see the face of God!
CHORUS
Ring out the bells
Upon this day of days!
May all the angels
Of the Lord above
In jubilation
Sing their songs of praise!
And crown this
Blessed time with
Peace and love.
(The procession becomes a dancing celebration. A waltz is played)
MAJOR DOMO
The Baron and Baroness de Thénard wish to pay their respects to the groom!
THENARDIER
I forget where we met
Was it not at the Chateau Lafarge
Where the Duke did that puke
Down the Duchess's de-coll-etage?
MARIUS
No, `Baron de Thénard'
The circles I move in are humbler by far.
Go away, Thénardier!
Do you think I don't know who you are?
MME. THENARDIER
He's not fooled. Told you so.
Show M'sieur what you've come here to show.
Tell the boy what you know!
(Applause from the dancers as the waltz finishes)
MARIUS
When I look at you, I remember Eponine.
She was more than you deserved, who gave her birth
But now she is with God and happier, I hope,
Than here on earth!
The waltz starts up again.
THENARDIER
So it goes, heaven knows
Life has dealt me some terrible blows.
MME. THENARDIER
You've got cash and a heart
You could give us a bit of a start!
We can prove, plain as ink
Your bride's father is not what you think.
THENARDIER
There's a tale I could tell
MME. THENARDIER
Information we're willing to sell...
THENARDIER
There's a man that he slew
I saw the corpse clear as I'm seeing you!
What I tell you is true!
MME. THENARDIER
Pity to disturb you at a feast like this
But five hundred francs surely wouldn't come amiss.
MARIUS
In God's name say what you have to say.
THENARDIER
But first you pay!
What I saw, clear as light,
Jean Valjean in the sewers that night.
Had this corpse on his back
Hanging there like a bloody great sack.
I was there, never fear.
Even found me this fine souvenir.
(Thénardier shows Marius a ring)
MARIUS
I know this! This was mine!
This is surely some heavenly sign!
THENARDIER
One thing more, mark this well
It was the night the barricades fell.
MARIUS
Then it's true. Then I'm right.
Jean Valjean was my savior that night!
(Marius punches Thénardier and then throws money at him)
As for you, take this too!
God forgive the things that we do.
Come my love, come Cosette,
This day's blessings are not over yet!
(Marius and Cosette leave)
====
BEGGARS AT THE FEAST
THENARDIER
Ain't it a laugh
Ain't it a treat?
Hob-nobbin' here
Among the elite?
Here comes a prince
There goes a Jew.
This one's a queer
But what can you do?
Paris at my feet
Paris in the dust
And here's me breaking bread
With the upper crust!
Beggar at the feast!
Master of the dance!
Life is easy pickings
If you grab your chance.
Everywhere you go
Law-abiding folk
Doing what is decent
But they're mostly broke!
Singing to the Lord on Sundays
Praying for the gifts He'll send.
M. & MME. THENARDIER
But we're the ones who take it
We're the ones who make it in the end!
Watch the buggers dance
Watch 'em till they drop
Keep your wits about you
And you stand on top!
Masters of the land
Always get our share
Clear away the barricades
And we're still there!
We know where the wind is blowing
Money is the stuff we smell.
And when we're rich as Croesus
Jesus! Won't we see you all in hell!
(Valjean is alone in the shadows, with a bare wooden cross for company)
VALJEAN
Alone I wait in the shadows
I count the hours till I can sleep
I dreamed a dream Cosette stood by
It made her weep to know I die.
Alone at the end of the day
Upon this wedding night I pray
Take these children, my Lord, to thy embrace
And show them grace.
God on high
Hear my prayer
Take me now
To thy care
Where You are
Let me be
Take me now
Take me there
Bring me home
Bring me home.
(Fantine's spirit appears to Valjean)
FANTINE
M'sieur, I bless your name
M'sieur, lay down your burden
You raised my child in love
And you will be with god.
VALJEAN(interjecting)
I am ready, Fantine
At the end of my days
She's the best of my life.
(Marius and Cosette rush into the room; they do not see Fantine)
COSETTE
Papa, Papa, I do not understand!
Are you alright? They said you'd gone away.
VALJEAN
Cosette, my child, am I forgiven now?
Thank God, thank God, I've lived to see this day.
MARIUS
It's you who must forgive a thoughtless fool
It's you who must forgive a thankless man
It's thanks to you that I am living
And again I lay down my life at your feet.
Cosette, your father is a saint.
When they wounded me
He took me from the barricade
Carried like a babe
And brought me home to you!
VALJEAN(to Cosette)
Now you are here
Again beside me
Now I can die in peace
For now my life is blessed...
COSETTE
You will live, Papa, you're going to live
It's too soon, too soon to say goodbye!
VALJEAN
Yes, Cosette, forbid me now to die
I'll obey,
I will try.
On this page
I write my last confession.
Read it well
When I at last am sleeping.
It's the story
Of those who always loved you.
Your mother gave her life for you
Then gave you to my keeping.
(The other spirits, including Eponine appear)
FANTINE
Come with me
Where chains will never bind you
All your grief
At last, at last behind you.
Lord in Heaven,
Look down on him in mercy.
VALJEAN
Forgive me all my trespasses
And take me to your glory.
FANTINE & EPONINE
Take my hand
And lead me to salvation.
Take my love,
For love is everlasting.
VALJEAN, FANTINE & EPONINE
And remember
The truth that once was spoken
To love another person
Is to see the face of God!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Finale
by Les Miserables Cast
CHORUS
Do you hear the people sing
Lost in the valley of the night?
It is the music of a people
Who are climbing to the light.
For the wretched of the earth
There is a flame that never dies.
Even the darkest night will end
And the sun will rise.
They will live again in freedom
In the garden of the Lord.
They will walk behind the plough-share,
They will put away the sword.
The chain will be broken
And all men will have their reward.
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?
It is the future that they bring
When tomorrow comes!
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?
It is the future that they bring
When tomorrow comes...
Tomorrow comes!
Do you hear the people sing
Lost in the valley of the night?
It is the music of a people
Who are climbing to the light.
For the wretched of the earth
There is a flame that never dies.
Even the darkest night will end
And the sun will rise.
They will live again in freedom
In the garden of the Lord.
They will walk behind the plough-share,
They will put away the sword.
The chain will be broken
And all men will have their reward.
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?
It is the future that they bring
When tomorrow comes!
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?
It is the future that they bring
When tomorrow comes...
Tomorrow comes!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
The Bargain
by Les Miserables Cast
(Valjean and Young Cosette, hand-in-hand, approach the now empty inn, singing. They arrive at the inn)
VALJEAN
I found her wandering in the wood
This little child, I found her trembling in the shadows
And I am here to help Cosette
And I will settle any debt you may think proper
I will pay what I must pay
To take Cosette away.
There is a duty I must heed,
There is a promise I have made
For I was blind to one in need
I did not see what stood before me
Now her mother is with God
Fantine's suffering is over
And I speak here with her voice
And I stand here in her place
And from this day and evermore
MME. THENARDIER
Let me have your coat, M'sieur
VALJEAN
Cosette shall live in my protection
THENARDIER
You are very welcome here
VALJEAN
I will not forsake my vow
THENARDIER
Take a glass
MME. THENARDIER
Take a chair
VALJEAN
Cosette shall have a father now!
VALJEAN
I found her wandering in the wood
This little child, I found her trembling in the shadows
And I am here to help Cosette
And I will settle any debt you may think proper
I will pay what I must pay
To take Cosette away.
There is a duty I must heed,
There is a promise I have made
For I was blind to one in need
I did not see what stood before me
Now her mother is with God
Fantine's suffering is over
And I speak here with her voice
And I stand here in her place
And from this day and evermore
MME. THENARDIER
Let me have your coat, M'sieur
VALJEAN
Cosette shall live in my protection
THENARDIER
You are very welcome here
VALJEAN
I will not forsake my vow
THENARDIER
Take a glass
MME. THENARDIER
Take a chair
VALJEAN
Cosette shall have a father now!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
The Robbery
by Les Miserables Cast
(Thenardier assembling his gang)
THENARDIER
Everyone here, you know your place
Brujon, Babet, Claquesous
You, Montparnasse, watch for the law
With Eponine take care
You turn on the tears
No mistakes, my dears
MME. THENARDIER
These bloody students on our street
Here they come slumming once again
Our Eponine would kiss their feet
She never had a scrap of brain
MARIUS
Hey, Eponine, what's up today?
I haven't seen you much about.
Eponine: Here you can always catch me in.
Marius: Mind the police don't catch you out!
EPONINE
'Ere, wotcher do with all them books?
I could have been a student too!
Don't judge a girl on how she looks.
I know a lot of things, I do!
MARIUS
Poor Eponine, the things you know
You wouldn't find in books like these.
EPONINE
I like the way you grow your hair
MARIUS
I like the way you always tease
EPONINE
Little he knows!
Little he sees!
(Valjean arrives with Cosette, now grown up)
MME. THENARDIER
Here's the old boy. Stay on the job and watch out for the law.
EPONINE(to Marius)
Stay out of this.
MARIUS
But Eponine...
EPONINE
You'll be in trouble here
It's not your concern
You'll be in the clear
(She pushes Marius away)
MARIUS
Who is that man?
EPONINE
Leave me alone!
MARIUS
Why is he here? Hey, Eponine!
(He tries to follow her, and bumps into Cosette)
I didn't see you there, forgive me.
THENARDIER
Please m'sieur, come this way
Here's a child that ain't eaten today.
Save a life, spare a sou
God rewards all the good that you do.
Wait a bit. Know that face.
Ain't the world a remarkable place?
Men like me don't forget
You're the bastard who borrowed Cosette!
(Thenardier grabs Valjean and rips open his shirt, revealing the number on his chest)
VALJEAN
What is this? Are you mad?
No, Monsieur, you don't know what you do!
THENARDIER
You know me, you know me.
I'm a con, just like you.
EPONINE
It's the police! Disappear!
Run for it! It's Javert!
THENARDIER
Everyone here, you know your place
Brujon, Babet, Claquesous
You, Montparnasse, watch for the law
With Eponine take care
You turn on the tears
No mistakes, my dears
MME. THENARDIER
These bloody students on our street
Here they come slumming once again
Our Eponine would kiss their feet
She never had a scrap of brain
MARIUS
Hey, Eponine, what's up today?
I haven't seen you much about.
Eponine: Here you can always catch me in.
Marius: Mind the police don't catch you out!
EPONINE
'Ere, wotcher do with all them books?
I could have been a student too!
Don't judge a girl on how she looks.
I know a lot of things, I do!
MARIUS
Poor Eponine, the things you know
You wouldn't find in books like these.
EPONINE
I like the way you grow your hair
MARIUS
I like the way you always tease
EPONINE
Little he knows!
Little he sees!
(Valjean arrives with Cosette, now grown up)
MME. THENARDIER
Here's the old boy. Stay on the job and watch out for the law.
EPONINE(to Marius)
Stay out of this.
MARIUS
But Eponine...
EPONINE
You'll be in trouble here
It's not your concern
You'll be in the clear
(She pushes Marius away)
MARIUS
Who is that man?
EPONINE
Leave me alone!
MARIUS
Why is he here? Hey, Eponine!
(He tries to follow her, and bumps into Cosette)
I didn't see you there, forgive me.
THENARDIER
Please m'sieur, come this way
Here's a child that ain't eaten today.
Save a life, spare a sou
God rewards all the good that you do.
Wait a bit. Know that face.
Ain't the world a remarkable place?
Men like me don't forget
You're the bastard who borrowed Cosette!
(Thenardier grabs Valjean and rips open his shirt, revealing the number on his chest)
VALJEAN
What is this? Are you mad?
No, Monsieur, you don't know what you do!
THENARDIER
You know me, you know me.
I'm a con, just like you.
EPONINE
It's the police! Disappear!
Run for it! It's Javert!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Javert's Intervention
by Les Misérables Cast
We currently do not have these lyrics.
If you would like to submit them, please use the form below.
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Eponine'e Errand
by Les Misérables Cast
(Eponine is alone in the square)
EPONINE
Cosette! Now I remember!
Cosette! How can it be?
We were children together
Look what's become of me...
(Marius returns)
EPONINE
Good God! Ooh, what a rumpus!
MARIUS
That girl, who can she be?
EPONINE
That cop! He'd like to jump us
But he ain't smart, not he.
MARIUS
Eponine, who was that girl?
EPONINE
Some bourgeois two-a-penny thing!
MARIUS
Eponine, find her for me!
EPONINE
What will you give me?
MARIUS
Anything!
EPONINE
Got you all excited now,
But God knows what you see in her
Ain't you all delighted now
(She refuses Marius' money)
No, I don't want your money sir...
MARIUS
Eponine! Do this for me...
Discover where she lives
But careful how you go
Don't let your father know
'Ponine! I'm lost until she's found!
EPONINE
You see, I told you so!
There's lots of things I know
(Marius leaves)
'Ponine... she knows her way around!
EPONINE
Cosette! Now I remember!
Cosette! How can it be?
We were children together
Look what's become of me...
(Marius returns)
EPONINE
Good God! Ooh, what a rumpus!
MARIUS
That girl, who can she be?
EPONINE
That cop! He'd like to jump us
But he ain't smart, not he.
MARIUS
Eponine, who was that girl?
EPONINE
Some bourgeois two-a-penny thing!
MARIUS
Eponine, find her for me!
EPONINE
What will you give me?
MARIUS
Anything!
EPONINE
Got you all excited now,
But God knows what you see in her
Ain't you all delighted now
(She refuses Marius' money)
No, I don't want your money sir...
MARIUS
Eponine! Do this for me...
Discover where she lives
But careful how you go
Don't let your father know
'Ponine! I'm lost until she's found!
EPONINE
You see, I told you so!
There's lots of things I know
(Marius leaves)
'Ponine... she knows her way around!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Javert's Arrival
by Les Misérables Cast
(Javert climbs over the barricade)
JAVERT
Listen my friends
I have done as I said
I have been to their lines
I have counted each man
I will tell what I can
Better be warned
They have armies to spare
And the danger is real
We will need all our cunning
To bring them to heel.
ENJOLRAS
Have faith
If you know what their movements are
We'll spoil their game
There are ways that a people can fight
We shall overcome their power
JAVERT
I have overheard their plans
There will be no attack tonight
They intend to starve us out
Before they start a proper fight
Concentrate their force
Hit us from the right.
JAVERT
Listen my friends
I have done as I said
I have been to their lines
I have counted each man
I will tell what I can
Better be warned
They have armies to spare
And the danger is real
We will need all our cunning
To bring them to heel.
ENJOLRAS
Have faith
If you know what their movements are
We'll spoil their game
There are ways that a people can fight
We shall overcome their power
JAVERT
I have overheard their plans
There will be no attack tonight
They intend to starve us out
Before they start a proper fight
Concentrate their force
Hit us from the right.
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Night Of Anguish
by Les Miserables Cast
Joly
Here comes a man in uniform...
RIGHT:
Joly
She is the first to fall, the first of us to fall upon this barricade
Marius
Her name was Eponine, her life was cold and dark yet she was unafraid
Joly
We fight here in her name
Grantaire
She will not die in vain
Joly
She will not be betrayed
(Valjean arrives, dressed as a soldier)
JOLY
Here comes a man in uniform
What brings you to this place?
VALJEAN
I come here as a volunteer
JOLY
Approach and show your face.
SENTRY
You wear an army uniform.
VALJEAN
That's why they let me through.
JOLY
You've got some years behind you sir.
VALJEAN
There's much that I can do.
JOLY
You see that prisoner over there?
GRANTAIRE
A volunteer like you!
COMBEFERRE
A spy who calls himself Javert!
GRANTAIRE
He's going to get it too...
SENTRY
They're getting ready to attack!
Here comes a man in uniform...
RIGHT:
Joly
She is the first to fall, the first of us to fall upon this barricade
Marius
Her name was Eponine, her life was cold and dark yet she was unafraid
Joly
We fight here in her name
Grantaire
She will not die in vain
Joly
She will not be betrayed
(Valjean arrives, dressed as a soldier)
JOLY
Here comes a man in uniform
What brings you to this place?
VALJEAN
I come here as a volunteer
JOLY
Approach and show your face.
SENTRY
You wear an army uniform.
VALJEAN
That's why they let me through.
JOLY
You've got some years behind you sir.
VALJEAN
There's much that I can do.
JOLY
You see that prisoner over there?
GRANTAIRE
A volunteer like you!
COMBEFERRE
A spy who calls himself Javert!
GRANTAIRE
He's going to get it too...
SENTRY
They're getting ready to attack!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
The Second Attack (Death Of Gavroche)
by Les Misérables Cast
(The battle recommences)
ENJOLRAS
How do we stand, Feuilly? Make your report.
FEUILLY
We've guns enough, but ammunition's short
MARIUS
Let me go into the streets
There are bodies all around
Ammunition to be had
Lots of bullets to be found!
ENJOLRAS
I won't let you go, it's too much of a chance!
MARIUS
The same is true for any man here!
VALJEAN
Let me go. He's no more than a boy.
I am old, I have nothing to fear.
GAVROCHE
You need somebody quicker and I volunteer!
(Gavroche climbs the barricade)
LESGLES
Come back Gavroche, don't you dare!
JOLY
Someone pull him down at once!
GAVROCHE
Look at me, I'm almost there!
GAVROCHE
Little people know, when
Little people fight, we
(Gunshot Gavroche is wounded.)
May look easy pickings
But we've got some bite!
(He is hit again.)
So never kick a dog
Because he's just a pup
(He is hit again)
We'll fight like twenty armies
And we won't give up
So you'd better run for cover
When the pup grows....
(Gunshot, he dies)
ENJOLRAS
How do we stand, Feuilly? Make your report.
FEUILLY
We've guns enough, but ammunition's short
MARIUS
Let me go into the streets
There are bodies all around
Ammunition to be had
Lots of bullets to be found!
ENJOLRAS
I won't let you go, it's too much of a chance!
MARIUS
The same is true for any man here!
VALJEAN
Let me go. He's no more than a boy.
I am old, I have nothing to fear.
GAVROCHE
You need somebody quicker and I volunteer!
(Gavroche climbs the barricade)
LESGLES
Come back Gavroche, don't you dare!
JOLY
Someone pull him down at once!
GAVROCHE
Look at me, I'm almost there!
GAVROCHE
Little people know, when
Little people fight, we
(Gunshot Gavroche is wounded.)
May look easy pickings
But we've got some bite!
(He is hit again.)
So never kick a dog
Because he's just a pup
(He is hit again)
We'll fight like twenty armies
And we won't give up
So you'd better run for cover
When the pup grows....
(Gunshot, he dies)
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
The Final Battle
by Les Miserables Cast
ARMY OFFICER(with loud hailer)
You at the barricade listen to this
The people of Paris sleep in their beds
You have no chance
No chance at all
Why throw your lives away?
ENJOLRAS
Let us die facing our foes
Make them bleed while we can
COMBEFERRE
Make 'em pay through the nose
COURFEYRAC
Make 'em pay for every man!
ENJOLRAS
Let others rise
To take our place
Until the earth is free!
Increasingly heavy gunfire.
MARIUS is shot.
Enjolras is killed at the summit of the barricade.
All on the barricade are killed, except MARIUS,
who is wounded and unconscious, and Valjean.
Valjean discovers that Marius is still alive and
carries him down into the sewers to escape.
Javert climbs over the barricade looking for Valjean's body. Failing to find it, he realizes that Valjean must be in the
sewers, so he goes off to where he must emerge.
You at the barricade listen to this
The people of Paris sleep in their beds
You have no chance
No chance at all
Why throw your lives away?
ENJOLRAS
Let us die facing our foes
Make them bleed while we can
COMBEFERRE
Make 'em pay through the nose
COURFEYRAC
Make 'em pay for every man!
ENJOLRAS
Let others rise
To take our place
Until the earth is free!
Increasingly heavy gunfire.
MARIUS is shot.
Enjolras is killed at the summit of the barricade.
All on the barricade are killed, except MARIUS,
who is wounded and unconscious, and Valjean.
Valjean discovers that Marius is still alive and
carries him down into the sewers to escape.
Javert climbs over the barricade looking for Valjean's body. Failing to find it, he realizes that Valjean must be in the
sewers, so he goes off to where he must emerge.
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Valjean's Confession
by Les Misérables Cast
VALJEAN
Not another word my son,
There's something now that must be done.
You've spoken from the heart
And I must do the same
There is a story, sir,
Of slavery and shame
That you alone must know.
I never told Cosette
She had enough of tears
She's never known the truth-
The story you must hear
Of years ago.
There lived a man whose hame was Jean Valjean
He stole some bread to save his sister's son.
For nineteen winters served his time
In sweat he washed away his crime.
Years ago
He broke parole and lived a life apart
How could he tell Cosette and break her heart?
It's for Cosette this must be faced
If he is caught she is disgraced
The time has come to journey on
And from this day he must be gone
Who am I?
Who am I?
MARIUS
You're Jean Valjean!
What can I do
That will turn you from this?
Monsieur, you cannot leave.
Whatever I tell my beloved Cosette
She will never believe!
VALJEAN
Make her believe
I have gone on a journey
A long way away.
Tell her my heart was too full for farewells
It is better this way.
Promise me, M'sieur, Cosette will never know...
MARIUS
I give my word.
VALJEAN
...what I have spoken, why I must go.
Marius: For the sake of Cosette, it must be so.
Not another word my son,
There's something now that must be done.
You've spoken from the heart
And I must do the same
There is a story, sir,
Of slavery and shame
That you alone must know.
I never told Cosette
She had enough of tears
She's never known the truth-
The story you must hear
Of years ago.
There lived a man whose hame was Jean Valjean
He stole some bread to save his sister's son.
For nineteen winters served his time
In sweat he washed away his crime.
Years ago
He broke parole and lived a life apart
How could he tell Cosette and break her heart?
It's for Cosette this must be faced
If he is caught she is disgraced
The time has come to journey on
And from this day he must be gone
Who am I?
Who am I?
MARIUS
You're Jean Valjean!
What can I do
That will turn you from this?
Monsieur, you cannot leave.
Whatever I tell my beloved Cosette
She will never believe!
VALJEAN
Make her believe
I have gone on a journey
A long way away.
Tell her my heart was too full for farewells
It is better this way.
Promise me, M'sieur, Cosette will never know...
MARIUS
I give my word.
VALJEAN
...what I have spoken, why I must go.
Marius: For the sake of Cosette, it must be so.
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Everyday
by Les Miserables Cast
COSETTE
Every day
You walk with stronger step
You walk with longer step-
`The worst is over.'
MARIUS
Every day
I wonder every day
Who was it brought me here
From the barricade?
COSETTE
Don't think about it, Marius!
With all the years ahead of us!
I will never go away
And we will be together
Every day.
Every day,
We'll remember that night
And the vow that we made:
A heart full of love
A night full of you
The words are old
But always true.
Oh, God, for shame
You did not even know my name!
MARIUS
Dear Mad'moiselle
I was lost in your spell.
(Valjean enters, unnoticed)
COSETTE
A heart full of love
No fear no regret
`My name is Marius Pontmercy'
MARIUS
Cosette, Cosette!
COSETTE
I saw you waiting and I knew.
MARIUS
Waiting for you
At your feet
COSETTE
At your call
BOTH
And it wasn't a dream
Not a dream after all
VALJEAN(interjecting, to himself)
She was never mine to keep.
She is youthful, she is free.
Love is the garden of the young
Let it be... let it be...
A heart full of love
This I give you on this day.
(They notice Valjean)
MARIUS
M'sieur, this is a day
I can never forget.
Is gratitude enough
For giving me Cosette?
Your home shall be with us
And not a day shall pass
But we will prove our love
To you, whom we shall call
A father to us both
A father to us all.
Every day
You walk with stronger step
You walk with longer step-
`The worst is over.'
MARIUS
Every day
I wonder every day
Who was it brought me here
From the barricade?
COSETTE
Don't think about it, Marius!
With all the years ahead of us!
I will never go away
And we will be together
Every day.
Every day,
We'll remember that night
And the vow that we made:
A heart full of love
A night full of you
The words are old
But always true.
Oh, God, for shame
You did not even know my name!
MARIUS
Dear Mad'moiselle
I was lost in your spell.
(Valjean enters, unnoticed)
COSETTE
A heart full of love
No fear no regret
`My name is Marius Pontmercy'
MARIUS
Cosette, Cosette!
COSETTE
I saw you waiting and I knew.
MARIUS
Waiting for you
At your feet
COSETTE
At your call
BOTH
And it wasn't a dream
Not a dream after all
VALJEAN(interjecting, to himself)
She was never mine to keep.
She is youthful, she is free.
Love is the garden of the young
Let it be... let it be...
A heart full of love
This I give you on this day.
(They notice Valjean)
MARIUS
M'sieur, this is a day
I can never forget.
Is gratitude enough
For giving me Cosette?
Your home shall be with us
And not a day shall pass
But we will prove our love
To you, whom we shall call
A father to us both
A father to us all.
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Finale 2
by Les Miserables Cast
VALJEAN
Alone, I wait in the shadows
I count the hours
'Till I can sleep
I dreamed a dream
Cosette stood by.
It made her weep
To know I die.
Alone, at the end of the day,
Upon this wedding night I pray
Take these children, my Lord
To thy embrace
And show them grace.
God on high,
Hear my prayer.
Take me now
To thy care.
Where you are,
Let me be.
Take me now,
Take me there.
Bring me home,
Bring me home.
FANTINE
Monsieur, I bless your name.
VALJEAN
I am ready Fantine!
FANTINE
Monsieur, lay down your burden.
VALJEAN
At the end of my days,
FANTINE
You've raised my child in love.
VALJEAN
She's the best of my life
FANTINE
And you will be with God.
COSETTE
Papa, papa, I do not understand,
Are you all right?
Why did you go away?
VALJEAN
Cosette, my child
Thank God, thank God
I've lived to see this day.
MARIUS
It's you who must forgive a thoughtless fool
It's you who must forgive a thankless man
It's thanks to you that I am living
And again I lay down my life at your feet
Cosette, your father is a saint
When they wounded me
He took me from the barricade
Carried like a babe
And brought me home
To you.
VALJEAN (to COSETTE)
Now you are here,
Again beside me.
Now I can die in peace,
For now my life is blessed.
COSETTE
You will live, Papa, you're going to live,
It's too soon, too soon to say goodbye!
VALJEAN
Yes, Cosette, forbid me now to die.
I'll obey,
I will try.
On this page,
I write my last confession.
Read it well,
When I, at last, am sleeping.
It's the story
Of one who turned from hating,
A man who only learned to love
When you were in his keeping.
FANTINE
Come with me
Where chains will never bind you
VALJEAN
I am ready Fantine.
FATINE
All your grief
At last, at last behind you
Lord in Heaven
Look down on him in mercy.
VALJEAN
forgive me all my trespasses
And take me to your glory.
FANTINE
Take my hand
And lead me to salvation
Take my love
For love is everlasting
VALJEAN, FATINE, EPONINE
And remember
The truth that once was spoken
To love another person
Is to see the face of God.
CHORUS
Do you hear the people sing
Lost in the valley of the night?
It is the music of the people
who are climbing to the light.
For the wretched of the earth
there is a flame that never dies.
Even the darkest night will end
and the sun will rise.
We will live again in freedom
in the garden of the Lord.
We will walk behind the ploughshare;
We will put away the sword.
The chain will be broken
and all men will have their reward.
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade
is there a world you long to see?
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?
It is the future that we bring
when tomorrow comes!
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade
is there a world you long to see?
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?
It is the future that we bring
when tomorrow comes...
Tomorrow comes!
Alone, I wait in the shadows
I count the hours
'Till I can sleep
I dreamed a dream
Cosette stood by.
It made her weep
To know I die.
Alone, at the end of the day,
Upon this wedding night I pray
Take these children, my Lord
To thy embrace
And show them grace.
God on high,
Hear my prayer.
Take me now
To thy care.
Where you are,
Let me be.
Take me now,
Take me there.
Bring me home,
Bring me home.
FANTINE
Monsieur, I bless your name.
VALJEAN
I am ready Fantine!
FANTINE
Monsieur, lay down your burden.
VALJEAN
At the end of my days,
FANTINE
You've raised my child in love.
VALJEAN
She's the best of my life
FANTINE
And you will be with God.
COSETTE
Papa, papa, I do not understand,
Are you all right?
Why did you go away?
VALJEAN
Cosette, my child
Thank God, thank God
I've lived to see this day.
MARIUS
It's you who must forgive a thoughtless fool
It's you who must forgive a thankless man
It's thanks to you that I am living
And again I lay down my life at your feet
Cosette, your father is a saint
When they wounded me
He took me from the barricade
Carried like a babe
And brought me home
To you.
VALJEAN (to COSETTE)
Now you are here,
Again beside me.
Now I can die in peace,
For now my life is blessed.
COSETTE
You will live, Papa, you're going to live,
It's too soon, too soon to say goodbye!
VALJEAN
Yes, Cosette, forbid me now to die.
I'll obey,
I will try.
On this page,
I write my last confession.
Read it well,
When I, at last, am sleeping.
It's the story
Of one who turned from hating,
A man who only learned to love
When you were in his keeping.
FANTINE
Come with me
Where chains will never bind you
VALJEAN
I am ready Fantine.
FATINE
All your grief
At last, at last behind you
Lord in Heaven
Look down on him in mercy.
VALJEAN
forgive me all my trespasses
And take me to your glory.
FANTINE
Take my hand
And lead me to salvation
Take my love
For love is everlasting
VALJEAN, FATINE, EPONINE
And remember
The truth that once was spoken
To love another person
Is to see the face of God.
CHORUS
Do you hear the people sing
Lost in the valley of the night?
It is the music of the people
who are climbing to the light.
For the wretched of the earth
there is a flame that never dies.
Even the darkest night will end
and the sun will rise.
We will live again in freedom
in the garden of the Lord.
We will walk behind the ploughshare;
We will put away the sword.
The chain will be broken
and all men will have their reward.
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade
is there a world you long to see?
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?
It is the future that we bring
when tomorrow comes!
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade
is there a world you long to see?
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?
It is the future that we bring
when tomorrow comes...
Tomorrow comes!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
Les Misérables, is a sung-through musical with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, and a book by Schönberg and Boublil, based on the 1862 novel of the same name by Victor Hugo.
Set in early 19th-century France, Les Misérables tells the story of Jean Valjean, a French peasant, and his desire for redemption. After stealing a loaf of bread for his sister's starving child, Valjean is imprisoned for 19 years and released in 1815. When a bishop inspires him with a tremendous act of mercy, Valjean breaks his parole and starts his life anew and in disguise.
He becomes wealthy and adopts an orphan, Cosette. A police inspector named Javert pursues Valjean over the decades in a single-minded quest for "justice". The characters are swept into a revolutionary period in France, where a group of young idealists attempts to overthrow the government at a street barricade in Paris.
-Wikipedia
Genre(s):
Soundtrack, Musical Set in early 19th-century France, Les Misérables tells the story of Jean Valjean, a French peasant, and his desire for redemption. After stealing a loaf of bread for his sister's starving child, Valjean is imprisoned for 19 years and released in 1815. When a bishop inspires him with a tremendous act of mercy, Valjean breaks his parole and starts his life anew and in disguise.
He becomes wealthy and adopts an orphan, Cosette. A police inspector named Javert pursues Valjean over the decades in a single-minded quest for "justice". The characters are swept into a revolutionary period in France, where a group of young idealists attempts to overthrow the government at a street barricade in Paris.
-Wikipedia
Released: September 24th, 1980
Year: 1980