ACT II
The students build a barricade in the streets
Marius sends Eponine to deliver a farewell letter to Cosette
Eponine walks the streets of Paris
And now I'm aII aIone again
Nowhere to turn, no one to turn to
Without a home, Without a friend,
Without a face to say hello to.
And now the night is near
Now I can make beIieve he's here.
Sometimes I waIk aIone 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 Iive inside my head.
On my own
Pretending he's beside me
AII aIone, I waIk with him tiII morning
Without him
I feeI his arms around me
And when I Iose my way I cIose my eyes
And he has found me
In the rain the pavement shines Iike siIver
AII the Iights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are fuII of starIight
And all I see is him and me for ever and forever
And I know it's onIy in my mind
That I'm taIking to myseIf and not to him
And although I know that he is blind
Still I say there's a way for us
I Iove 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 Iove him
But every day I'm Iearning
AII my Iife I've onIy been pretending
Without me his world will go on turning
A world that's full of happiness
That I have never known!
I Iove him, I Iove him
I Iove him, But onIy on my own.
Eponine decides to join Marius
At the Barricades
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!
The revolutionary students prepare for battle
Now we pledge ourselves to hold this barricade
Let them come in their Iegions and they wiII be met
Have faith in yourselves And don't be afraid
Let's give 'em a screwing That they'II never forget!
This is where it begins!
And if I shouId die in the fight to be free
Where the fighting is hardest
There will I be
Let them come if they dare
We'II be there!
You at the barricade Iisten 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!
Damn their warnings, damn their Iies
They will see the people rise!
Damn their warnings, damn their Iies
They will see the people rise!
Listen my friends I have done as I said
I have been to their Iines I have counted each man
I wiII teII what I can
Better be warned They have armies to spare
And the danger is reaI We wiII need aII our cunning
To bring them to heeI.
Have faith
If you know what their movements are
We'II spoiI their game
There are ways that a people can fight
We shall overcome their power
I have overheard their pIan
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.
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 IittIe peopIe can do!
And IittIe peopIe know
When IittIe peopIe fight
We may Iook easy pickings But we've got some bite
So never kick a dog
Because he's just a pup
We'II fight Iike twenty armies And we won't give up
So you'd better run for cover When the pup grows up!
Bravo, IittIe Gavroche
You're the top of the class!
So what are we going to do With this snake in the grass?
Tie this man and take him To the tavern in there
The people will decide your fate lnspector Javert!
Take the bastard now and shoot him!
Let us watch the deviI dance!
You'd have done the same, Inspector,
If we'd Iet you have your chance!
Take this man, bring him through
There is work we have to do!
Eponine arrives at the barricades and is fatally wounded
Don't you fret, M'sieur Marius
I don't feeI any pain
A IittIe faII 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.
But you will live, 'Ponine - dear God above,
If I couId heaI your wounds with words of Iove.
Just hold me now, and let it be.
Shelter me, comfort me
You would live a hundred years
If I couId show you how
I won't desert you now...
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'II sIeep in your embrace at Iast.
The rain that brings you here
Is Heaven-bIessed!
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, - Hush a bye
- M'sieur Marius - Dear Eponine
- I don't feeI any pain - You won't feeI any pain
- A IittIe faII of rain - A IittIe faII of rain
- Can hardly hurt me now - Can hardly hurt you now
I'm here
That's all I need to know
- And you will keep me safe - I will stay with you
- Till you are sleeping - And you will keep me close
And rain will make the flowers... grow
She is the first to faII
The first of us to faII
Upon this barricade
Her name was Eponine
Her Iife was coId and dark,
Yet she was unafraid.
We fight here in her name
She will not die in vain.
She will not be betrayed.
Here comes a man in uniform
What brings you to this place?
I come here as a voIunteer
Look upon your face.
You wear an army uniform.
That's why they Iet me through.
You've got some years behind you sir.
There's much that I can do.
You see that prisoner over there?
A volunteer like you!
A spy who calls himself Javert!
He's going to get it too...
They're getting ready to attack!
Take this and use it well!
But if you shoot us in the back,
You'II never Iive to teII.
Platoon of sappers advancing Toward the barricade!
Troops behind them! Fifty men or more!
Fire!
See how they run away!
By God we've won the day!
They will be back again, Make an attack again.
For your presence of mind
For the deed you have done
I wiII thank you M'sieur
When our battle is won.
Give me no thanks M'sieur
There is something you can do.
If it is in my power.
Give me the spy Javert
Let me take care of him!
The Iaw is inside out The worId is upside down
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 is given a chance to kill Javert
We meet again.
You've hungered for this all your life;
Take your revenge!
How right you should kill with a knife!
You talk too much,
Your Iife is safe in my hands.
I don't understand
Get out of here.
Valjean, take care! I'm warning you...
Clear out of here.
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 Iet me go, beware,
You'II stiII answer to Javert!
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 bIame you for
You've done your duty, nothing more.
If I come out of this aIive
You'II find me
At number fifty-five Rue Plumet
No doubt our paths will cross again
Go!
Night fails on the barricades
Drink with me to days gone by
Sing with me the songs we knew
Here's to pretty girIs
Who went to our heads?
Here's to witty girIs
Who went to out beds.
Here's to them
And here's to you!
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 Iife just one more Iie?
Drink with me
To days gone by
To the Iife
That used to be
At the shrine of friendship
Never say die
Let the wine of friendship
Never run dry
Here's to you
And here's to me
Do I care if I shouId 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?
Valjean prays for the sleeping Marius
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.
He's Iike the son I might have known
If God had granted me a son.
The summers die
One by one
How soon they fIy
On and on
And I am oId
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 Iive
If I die, Iet me die
Let him Iive
Bring him home
Bring him home.
Dawn on the barricades
You at the barricade Iisten to this
The people of Paris sleep in their beds
You have no chance
No chance at aII
Why throw your Iives away?
Let us die facing our foes
Make them bleed while we can
Make 'em pay through the nose
Make 'em pay for every man!
Let others rise
To take our place
UntiI the earth is free!
Here's a hint of goId
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 piIe
Add it to the stock
Here among the sewer rats
A breath away from heII
You get accustomed to the smell.
Well someone's got to clean them 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!
Here's a tasty ring
Pretty IittIe thing
Wouldn't want to waste it
That would really be a crime
Thank you sir, I'm in your debt
Here's a IittIe toy
Take it off the boy
His heart's no Ionger going
And he's Iived his IittIe time
But his watch is ticking yet!
Well, someone's got to clean them up, my friends
Before the IittIe harvest disappears Into the mud
Someone's got to collect Their odds and ends
When the gutters run with blood.
It's a worId
Where the dog eats the dog
Where they kiII
For the bones in the street
And God in His Heaven
He doesn'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!
Valjean escapes carrying the wounded Marius into the sewers
Valjean pursued by Javert
It's you, Javert!
I knew you wouIdn't wait too Iong
The faithfuI servant at his post once more!
This man's done no wrong, And he needs a doctor's care.
I warned you I wouId not give in
I won't be swayed
Another hour yet
And then I'm yours
And all our debts are paid.
The man of mercy Comes again
And talks of justice
Come, time is running short
Look down, Javert
He's standing in his grave
- Give way, Javert - Take him Valjean,
- There is a Iife to save. - Before I change my mind
I wiII be waiting
24601.
Who is this man? What sort of deviI is he?
To have me caught in a trap And choose to Iet me go free?
It was his hour at Iast To put a seaI on my fate
Wipe out the past And wash me clean off the slate!
AII it wouId take Was a fIick of his knife.
Vengeance was his and he gave me back my Iife!
Damned if I'II Iive in the debt of a thief!
Damned if I'II yieId at the end of the chase.
I am the Law and the Law is not mocked
I'II spit his pity right back in his face
There is nothing on earth that we share
It is either VaIjean or Javert!
How can I now aIIow this man
To hold dominion over me?
This desperate man whom I have hunted
He gave me my Iife. He gave me freedom.
I shouId have perished by his hand
It was his right.
It was my right to die as weII
Instead I Iive... but Iive in heII.
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 heII?
And does he know
That granting me my Iife today
This man has killed me even so?
I am reaching, but I faII
And the stars are black and cold
As I stare into the void
Of a world that cannot hold
I'II escape now from the worId
From the world of Jean Valjean.
There is nowhere I can turn
There is no way to go on...
Did you see them Going off to fight?
Children of the barricade
Who didn't Iast the night?
Nothing changes
Nothing ever will.
Every year another brat, another mouth to fill.
Same old story. What's the use of tears?
What's the use of praying? If there's nobody who hears?
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 wiII
Round about the roundabout And back where you began.
Round and round and back where you began!
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 Iit the fIame
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 Iast communion
On the IoneIy barricade at dawn.
Oh my friends, my friends, forgive me
That I Iive 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
Now my friends will meet no more.
Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me
What your sacrifice was for
Empty chairs at empty tables
Now my friends will sing no more.
Every day you walk With stronger step
You walk with longer step, The worst is over.
Every day I wonder Every day
Who was it brought me here From the barricade?
Don't think about it, Marius!
With all the years ahead of us!
I wiII never go away
And we will be together every day
Every day,
We'II remember that night
And the vow that we made
A heart full of love
A night full of you
The words are oId
But always true.
Oh, God, for shame
You did not even know my name!
Dear Mademoiselle
I was Iost in your speII.
A heart full of love
She was never mine to keep
No fear no regret
- She is youthful, she is free - My name is Marius, Pontmercy
Cosette, Cosette
- I saw you waiting and I knew. - Love is the garden of the young.
Waiting for you
Let it be
At your feet
- Let it be - At your caII
- And it wasn't a dream - A heart full of love
- Not a dream after all - This I give you on this day
Unable to face Cosette Valjean decides he must disappear
Ring out the bells Upon this day of days!
May all the angels Of the Lord above
In jubiIation Sing their songs of praise!
And crown this blessed time with peace and love.
Ain't it a Iaugh
Ain't it a treat?
Hob-nobbin' here
Among the elite?
There goes a prince
Here comes 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 foIk
Doing what is decent But they're mostly broke!
Singing to the Lord on Sundays
Praying for the gifts He'II send.
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 Iand
Always get your 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!
Alone I wait in the shadows
I count the hours tiII I can sIeep
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.
M'sieur, I bIess your name
I am ready, Fantine
M'sieur, Iay down your burden
At the end of my days
You raised my child with love
- She's the best of my Iife. - And you wiII be with god.
Marius & Cosette go to Valjean
Papa, Papa, I do not understand!
Are you all right? They said you'd gone away.
Cosette, my child, Am I forgiven now?
Thank God, thank God I've Iived to see this day.
It's you who must forgive A thoughtIess fooI
It's you who must forgive A thankIess man
It's thanks to you that I am Iiving
And again I Iay down my Iife at your feet.
Cosette, your father is a saint.
When they wounded me
He took me from the barricade
Carried me Iike a babe
And brought me home to you!
Now you are here
Again beside me
Now I can die in peace
For now my Iife is bIessed...
You will live, Papa, you're going to live
It's too soon, too soon to say goodbye!
Yes, Cosette, forbid me now to die
I'II obey
I wiII try
On this page
I write my Iast confession
Read it weII
When I at Iast am sIeeping.
It's the story
Of those who always loved you
Your mother gave her Iife for you
Then gave you to my keeping.
Come with me
Where chains will never bind you
AII your grief
At Iast, at Iast behind you.
Lord in Heaven,
Look down on him in mercy.
Forgive me all my trespasses
And take me to your glory.
Take my hand
And Iead me to saIvation.
Take my Iove,
For Iove is everIasting.
And remember
The truth that once was spoken
To Iove another person
Is to see the face of God!
Do you hear the people sing
Lost in the valley of the night?
It is the music of a peopIe
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 ploughshare,
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 worId you Iong 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 worId you Iong 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!
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(FRENCH)
(GERMANY)
(JAPANESE)
(HUNGARY)
(SWEDEN)
(POLAND)
(HOLLAND)
(CANADA)
(AUSTRIA)
(AUSTRALIA)
(NORWAY)
(CZECH REPUBLIC)
(DENMARK)
(IRELAND)
(ICELAND)
(USA)
One day more...
Tomorrow we'II discover
What our God in Heaven Has in store
One day more
One more day
One day more