Valjean's Soliloquy
What have I done? Sweet Jesus, what have I done?
Become a thief in the night, become a dog on the run
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 20 long years ago
My life was a war that could never be won
They gave me a number, murdered Val Jean
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 Val Jean
Jean Val Jean is nothing now
Another story must begin
Become a thief in the night, become a dog on the run
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 20 long years ago
My life was a war that could never be won
They gave me a number, murdered Val Jean
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 Val Jean
Jean Val Jean is nothing now
Another story must begin
Credits
Writer(s): Herbert Kretzmer, Claude-michel Schonberg, Alain Albert Boublil
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