Les Misérables (Musical)

• Look down, look down
  Don't look 'em in the eye
  Look down, look down,
  You're here until you die

• VALJEAN: I stole a loaf of bread.
  JAVERT:You robbed a house.
  VALJEAN: I broke a window pane.

• You broke the law
  It's there for people to see
  Why should you get the same
  As honest men like me?

Valjean Arrested, Valjean Forgiven

• My friend you left so early
  Surely something slipped your mind
  You forgot I gave these also
  Would you leave the best behind?

• Remember this, my brother
  See in this some higher 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!

What Have I Done (Valjean's Soliloquy)

• 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

• Take an eye for an eye!
  Turn your heart into stone!
  This is all I have lived for!
  This is all I have known!

• He told me that I have a soul,
  How does he know?
  What spirit comes to move my life?
  Is there another way to go?

At The End of The Day

• At the end of the day you're another day older
  And that's all you can say for the life of the poor

I Dreamed A Dream

• 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…

• But the tigers come at night
  With their voices soft as thunder
  As they tear your hope apart
  And 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.

Lovely Ladies

• I smell women
  Smell 'em in the air
  Think I'll drop my anchor
  In that harbor over there

• 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

• 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
  Make money in your sleep!

• 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!

Fantine's Arrest

• 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!

• I have heard such protestations
  Every day for twenty years
  Let's have no more explanations
  Save your breath and save your tears

The Runaway Cart

• M'sieur le Mayor, I have no words
  You come from God, you are a saint.

• 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.

Who Am I? - The Trial

• 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!

• 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

• 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.

• Who am I? Who am I?
  I am Jean Valjean!

Fantine's Death

• For God's sake, please stay till I am sleeping
  And tell Cosette I love her
  And I'll see her when I wake...

The Confrontation

• 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

• 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!

• 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!

Castle On A Cloud

• 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 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."

Master Of The House

• 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
  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!

The Bargain / The Waltz Of Treachery

• What to do? What to say?
  Shall you carry our treasure away?
  What a gem! What a pearl!
  Beyond rubies is our little girl!

• 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!

• No more words. Here's your price.
  Fifteen hundred for your sacrifice.
  Come, Cosette, say goodbye
  Let us seek out some friendlier sky.

Look Down

• 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!

• 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!

• 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?

Stars

• 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

• 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!

The ABC Cafe- Red And Black

• 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!

• We need a sign
  To rally the people
  To call them to arms
  To bring them in line!

• I am agog!
  I am aghast!
  Is Marius in love at last?

• 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!

• 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!

• 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!

Do You Hear The People Sing

• 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!

• 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?
  Then join in the fight
  That will give you the right to be free!

Rue Plumet - In My Life

• In my life
  I'm no longer alone
  Now the love in my life
  Is so near
  Find me now, find me here!

• In my life
  I'm no longer a child and I yearn
  For the truth that you know
  Of the years... years ago!

• 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.

• 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

A Heart Full of Love

• 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...

One Day More

• One day to a new beginning
  Raise the flag of freedom high!
  Every man will be a king
  Every man will be a king
  There's a new world for the winning
  There's a new world to be won.

• Tomorrow we'll discover
  What our God in Heaven has in store!
  One more dawn
  One more day
  One day more!

On My Own

• And now I'm all alone again
  Nowhere to turn, no one to go to
  Without a home, without a friend,
  Without a face to say hello to.
  And now the night is near
  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.

• 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 every day I'm learning
  All my life I've only been pretending
  Without me his world will go on turning
  A world that's full of happiness
  That I have never known!

• I love him
  But only on my own.

Building The Barricade

• You at 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!

• Damn their warnings, damn their lies
  They will see the people rise!

Little People

• 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!

• Shoot me now or shoot me later
  Every schoolboy to his sport
  Death to each and every traitor
  I renounce your people's court!

A Little Fall Of Rain

• 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.

• 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.

Night Of Anguish

• 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!

• 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.

The Night / Drink With Me

• Drink with me to days gone by
  Sing with me the songs we knew
  Here's to pretty girls who went to our heads.
  Here's to witty girls who went to out beds.
  Here's to them and here's to you!

• Drink with me to days gone by
  To the life 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

Bring Him Home

• 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

• 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.

• You can take
  You can give
  Let him be
  Let him live
  If I die, let me die
  Let him live
  Bring him home.

Dog Eats Dog

• 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!

Javert's Suicide

• 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.

• 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?

Turning

• They were schoolboys
  Never held a gun...
  Fighting for a new world
  That would rise up like the sun.
  Where's that new world now the fighting's done?

Empty Chairs At Empty Tables

• 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.

• Oh my friends, my friends forgive me
  That I live and you are gone.
  There's a grief that can't be spoken.
  There's a pain goes on and on.

Valjean's Confession

• I never told Cosette
  She had enough of tears
  She's never known the truth-
  The story you must hear
  Of years ago.

Beggars at the Feast

• Ain't it a laugh
  Ain't it a treat?
  Hob-nobbin' here
  Among the elite?

• Beggar at the feast!
  Master of the dance!
  Life is easy pickings
  If you grab your chance.

• 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!

• 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.

• Cosette, my child, am I forgiven now?
  Thank God, thank God, I've lived to see this day.

• Yes, Cosette, forbid me now to die
  I'll obey,
  I will try.

• Come with me
  Where chains will never bind you
  All your grief
  At last, at last behind you.

• Take my hand
  And lead me to salvation.
  Take my love,
  For love is everlasting.
  And remember
  The truth that once was spoken
  To love another person
  Is to see the face of God!

Finale

• 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...
  Tomorrow comes!

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