Characters ARMY OFFICER - Build uildin ing g the the Barri arrica cade de - The Fi Final Ba Battle BABET - The Attac ttack k at at Rue Rue Plu Plumet met BAMATABOIS - Fantine’s Arrest BISHOP - Prologue BRUJON - The Attac ttack k on on Rue Rue Plu Plumet met CLAQUESOUS - The Attac ttack k on on Rue Rue Plu Plumet met COMBEFERRE - The The AB ABC Caf Café/ é/R Red and and Bla Black ck - Do You e ear ar The The Peo Peo!l !le e "ing# - Build uildin ing g the the Barri arrica cade de - $ittle Peo!le - %ight of Anguish - The Fi Final Ba Battle CONSTABLES 1 & 2 - Prologue COSETTE - &n '( $ife - A e eart Fu Full of of $o $o)e - The Attac ttack k at the Rue Plumet - *ne Da( 'ore - +)er( Da( - +!ilogue COURFEYRAC - The The AB ABC Caf Café/ é/R Red and and Bla Black ck - Do You e ear ar the the Peo!l eo!le e "ing# - Build uildin ing g the the Barri arrica cade de
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DRINER 1 - 'aster of the ouse DRINER 2 - 'aster of the ouse DRINER ! - 'aster of the ouse DRINER " - 'aster of the ouse ENJOLRAS - $ook Do,n - The The AB ABC Caf Café/ é/R Red and and Bla Black ck - Do You e ear ar the the Peo!l eo!le e "ing# - *ne Da( 'ore - At th the Bar Barri rica cad de . .!on !on these "tones - Build uildin ing g the the Barri arrica cade de - 0a)ert’s Ar Arri)al - $ittle Peo!le - %ight of Anguish - The Fi First At Attack - Da,n of Anguish - The The "ec "econ ond d Att Attac ack k De Deat ath h of of 1a)roche - The Fi Final Ba Battle EPONINE - The Ro22er( - +!onine’s +r +rrand - &n '( $ife - A e eart Fu Full of of $o $o)e - The Attac ttack k at at Rue Rue Plu Plumet met - *n Da( 'ore - At th the Bar Barri rica cad de . .!on !on these "tones - *n m( *,n - A $itt $ittle le Fall all of Rain ain - +!ilogue FACTORY #IRL - At the +n +nd of the Da(
FANTINE $ At the +nd of the Da( $ & Dreamed a Dream $ $o)el( $adies $ Fantine’s Arrest $ Fantine’s Death $ +!ilogue FARMER - Prologue FAUCHELE%ANT - The Runa,a( Cart FEUILLY - The The AB ABC Caf Café/ é/R Red and and Bla Black ck - Do You e ear ar the the Peo!l eo!le e "ing# - Build uildin ing g the the Barri arrica cade de - $ittle Peo!le - The Fi First At Attack - Drink 3ith 'e - Da,n of Anguish - The The "ec "econ ond d Att Attac ack k De Deat ath h of of 1a)roche FOREMAN $ At the +nd of the Da( #A%ROCHE - $ook Do,n - "tars - $ittle Peo!le - The The "ec "econ ond d Att Attac ack k De Deat ath h of of 1a)roche #RANTAIRE - The The AB ABC Caf Café/ é/R Red and and Bla Black ck - At th the Bar Barri rica cad de . .!on !on these "tones - Build uildin ing g the the Barri arrica cade de - $ittle Peo!le - %ight of Anguish - The Fi First At Attack - Drink 3ith 'e
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INNEPERS 'IFE - Prologue JA%ERT - Prologue - Fantine’s Arrest - The Runa,a( Cart - The Confrontation - The Ro22er( 0a)ert’s &nter)ention - "tars - *ne Da( 'ore - At the Barricade .!on these "tones - 0a)ert’s Arri)al - $ittle Peo!le - The First Attack - 0a)ert’s "uicide JOLY - The ABC Café/Red and Black - A $ittle Fall of Rain - %ight of Anguish - Drink 3ith 'e - The "econd Attack Death of 1a)roche LABOURER - Prologue LES#LES - The ABC Café/Red and Black - At the Barricade .!on these "tones - $ittle Peo!le - %ight of Anguish - The First Attack - The "econd Attack Death of 1a)roche MARIUS - $ook Do,n - The Ro22er( - +!onine’s +rrand - The ABC Café/Red and Black - &n '( $ife - A eart Full of $o)e
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The Attack at Rue Plumet *ne Da( 'ore At the Barricade .!on these "tones Building the Barricade A $ittle Fall of Rain %ight of Anguish Drink 3ith 'e The "econd Attack Death of 1a)roche +m!t( Chairs at +m!t( Ta2les +)er( Da( 4al5ean’s Confession The 3edding Chorale/Beggars at the Feast +!ilogue
M(e) THENARDIER - Castle on a Cloud - 'aster of the ouse - The Bargain/The 3alt6 of Treacher( - The Ro22er( - *ne Da( 'ore - The 3edding Chorale/Beggars at the Feast MONPERNASSE - The Attack at the Rue Plumet OLD 'OMAN - At the +nd of the Da( OLD BE##AR 'OMAN - $ook Do,n PIMP - $o)el( $adies - $ook Do,n PROU%AIRE - The ABC Café/Red and Black - At the Barricade .!on these "tones - $ittle Peo!le - %ight of Anguish - Drink 3ith 'e
PRISONER 1 - $ook Do,n PRISONER 2 $ $ook Do,n PRISONER ! $ $ook Do,n PRISONER " $ $ook Do,n PRISONER * $ $ook Do,n SAILOR 1 - $o)el( $adies SAILOR 2 - $o)el( $adies SAILOR 2 - $o)el( $adies SENTRY - The First Attack THENARDIER - 'aster of the ouse - The Bargain/The 3alt6 of Treacher( - The Ro22er( - 0a)ert’s &nter)ention - The Attack at the Rue Plumet - *ne Da( 'ore - The "e,ers/Dog +ats Dog - The 3edding Chorale/Beggars at the Feast TURNIN# 1 - Turning TURNIN# 2 $ Turning TURNIN# ! $ Turning TURNIN# " $ Turning TURNIN# * $ Turning TURNIN# + $ Turning
URCHIN - $ook Do,n %ALJEAN - Prologue - 4al5ean’s "olilo7u( 3hat a)e & Done# - At the +nd of the Da( - Fantine’s Arrest - The Runa,a( Cart - Fantine’s Death - The Confrontation - The Bargain/The 3alt6 of Treacher( - The Ro22er( - &n '( $ife - The Attack at Rue Plumet - *ne Da( 'ore - At the Barricade .!on These "tones - %ight of Anguish - The First Attack - Bring im ome - The "econd Attack Death of 1a)roche - 0a)ert’s "uicide - +)er( Da( - 4al5ean’s Confession - +!ilogue
%OICE 1 - The Runa,a( Cart
%OICE 2 $ The Runa,a( Cart %OICE ! $ The Runa,a( Cart %OICE " $ The Runa,a( Cart 'HORE 1 - $o)el( $adies 'HORE 2 $ $o)el( $adies 'HORE ! $ $o)el( $adies 'ORER 1 - At the +nd of the Da( 'ORER 2 $ At the +nd of the Da( YOUN# COSSETTE - Castle on a Cloud - The Bargain/The 3alt6 of Treacher( YOUN# PROSTITUTE - $ook Do,n
LES MISERABLES ACT I PROLOGUE - WORK SONG [1815, Toulon, France. The chain gang, overseen by brutal warders, works in the sun.] PRISONERS Look down, look down Don't look 'em in the eye Look down, look down, You're here until you die PRISONER 1 The sun is strong It's hot as hell below
PRISONERS Look down, look down, There's twenty years to go PRISONER 2 I've done no wrong! Sweet Jesus, hear my prayer! PRISONERS Look down, look down, Sweet Jesus doesn't are PRISONER 3 I know she'll wait, I know that she'll be true! PRISONERS Look down, look down, They've all orgotten you PRISONER 4 "hen I get ree ya won't see me #ere or dust! PRISONERS Look down, look down Don't look 'em in the eye PRISONER 5
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#ow long $ Lord %eore 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 ow bring me prisoner ()*+ Your time is up -nd your parole's begun You know what that means VALJEAN Yes, it means I'm ree JAVERT $! It means you get Your yellow tiket.o.leave You are a thie VALJEAN I stole a loa o bread! JAVERT You robbed a house! VALJEAN I broke a windowpane! /y sister's hild was lose to death -nd we were starving! JAVERT -nd you will starve again 0nless you learn the meaning o the law1 VALJEAN I know the meaning o these 2 years - slave o the law JAVERT 3ive years or what you did The rest beause you tried to run Yes, ()*+ VALJEAN /y name is Jean 4al5ean 9:
JAVERT -nd I am Javert Do not orget my name Do not orget me ()*+
CHORUS Look down, look down You will always be a slave Look down, look down You're standing in your grave1 VALJEAN 3reedom is mine1 The earth is still1 I eel the wind1 I breathe again1 -nd the sky lears, the world is waiting1 Drink rom the pool1 #ow lean the taste ever orget the years, the waste1 or orgive them, or what they've done1 They are the guilty, everyone1 The day begins111 -nd now lets see "hat this new world "ill do or me! [He finds work on a far.] FARMER You'll have to go I'll pay you o or the day 6ollet your bits and piees there -nd be on your way1 VALJEAN You've given me hal "hat the other men get! This handul o tin "ouldn't buy my sweat! LABOURER You broke the law It's there or people to see "hy should you get the same -s honest men like me& VALJEAN ow every door is losed to me -nother 5ail, another key, another hain 3or when I ome to any town They hek my papers 99
-nd they ind the mark o 6ain In their eyes, I see their ear7 8"e do not want you here1' [He coes to an inn.] INNKEEPER’S WIFE /y rooms are ull -nd I've no supper to spare I'd like to help a stranger -ll we want is to be air VALJEAN I will pay in advane I an sleep in a barn You see how dark it is I'm not some kind o dog! INNKEEPER You leave my house $r eel the weight o my rod "e're law.abiding people here Thanks be to 9od1 [They throw hi out.] VALJEAN -nd now I know how reedom eels The 5ailer always at your heels It is the law! This piee o paper in my hand That makes me ursed throughout the land It is the law! Like a ur I walk the street The dirt beneath my eet1 [He sits down des!airingly outside a house fro which eerges the "isho! of #igne.] BISHOP 6ome in, Sir, or you are weary -nd the night is old out there1 Though our lives are very humble "hat we have, we have to share1 There is wine here to revive you, There is bread to make you strong, There's a bed to rest till morning, :est rom pain, and rest rom wrong1
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VALJEAN #e let me eat my ill I had the lion's share The silver in my hand 6ost twie what I had earned In all those nineteen years That lietime o despair -nd yet he trusted me1 The old ool trusted me . #e's done his bit o good I played the grateul ser -nd thanked him like I should %ut when the house was still, I got up in the night Took the silver Took my light! [Taking the silver cu!, he runs off, but is brought back by two constables.] CONSTABLE ONE Tell his reverene your story CONSTABLE TWO Let us see i he's impressed CONSTABLE ONE You were lodging here last night CONSTABLE TWO You were the honest %ishop's guest1 -nd then, out o 6hristian goodness "hen he learned about your plight CONSTABLE ONE You maintain he made a present o this silver1 BISHOP That is right1 %ut my riend you let so early Surely something slipped your mind [The "isho! gives $al%ean two silver candlesticks] You orgot I gave these also "ould you leave the best behind& So, /essieurs, you may release him 3or this man has spoken true I ommend you or your duty -nd 9od's blessing go with you1
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[The "isho! addresses $al%ean] %ut remember this, my brother See in this some higher plan You must use this preious silver To beome an honest man %y the witness o the martyrs %y the ;assion and the %lood 9od has raised you out o darkness I have bought your soul or 9od! VALJEAN’S SOLILOQUY WHAT HAVE I !ONE"# VALJEAN "hat have I done& Sweet Jesus, what have I done& %eome a thie in the night %eome a dog on the run -nd have I allen so ar -nd is the hour so late That nothing remains but the ry o my hate, The ries in the dark that nobody hears, #ere where I stand at the turning o the years& I there's another way to go I missed it twenty long years ago /y lie was a war that ould never be won They gave me a number and murdered 4al5ean "hen they hained me and let me or dead Just or stealing a mouthul o bread Yet why did I allow that man To touh my soul and teah me love& #e treated me like any other #e gave me his trust #e alled me brother /y lie he laims or 9od above 6an suh things be& 3or I had ome to hate this world This world whih had always hated me Take an eye or an eye! Turn your heart into stone! This is all I have lived or! This is all I have known! $ne word rom him and I'd be bak %eneath the lash, upon the rak Instead he oers me my reedom, I eel my shame inside me like a knie #e told me that I have a soul, 9=
#ow does he know& "hat spirit ame to move my lie& Is there another way to go& I am reahing, but I all -nd the night is losing in -nd I stare into the void To the whirlpool o my sin I'll esape now rom the world 3rom the world o Jean 4al5ean Jean 4al5ean is nothing now -nother story must begin! [He tears u! his yellow ticket&of&leave.] AT THE EN! OF THE !AY [18'(, )ontreuil&*ur&)er. +utside the factory owned by the )ayor, )onsieur )adeleine -ean $al%ean in disguise.] THE POOR -t the end o the day you're another day older -nd that's all you an say or the lie o the poor It's a struggle, it's a war -nd there's nothing that anyone's giving $ne more day standing about, what is it or& $ne day less to be living1 -t the end o the day you're another day older -nd the shirt on your bak doesn't keep out the hill -nd the righteous hurry past They don't hear the little ones rying -nd the winter is oming on ast, ready to kill $ne day nearer to dying! -t the end o the day there's another day dawning -nd the sun in the morning is waiting to rise Like the waves rash on the sand Like a storm that'll break any seond There's a hunger in the land There's a rekoning still to be rekoned and There's gonna be hell to pay -t the end o the day! [The forean and workers, including Fantine, eerge fro the factory.] FOREMAN -t the end o the day you get nothing or nothing Sitting lat on your butt doesn't buy any bread WORKER ONE There are hildren bak at home 9>
WORKERS ONE AN! TWO -nd the hildren have got to be ed WORKER TWO -nd you're luky to be in a 5ob WOMAN ONE -nd in a bed! WORKERS -nd we're ounting our blessings! WOMAN TWO #ave you seen how the oreman is uming today& "ith his terrible breath and his wandering hands& WOMAN THREE It's beause little 3antine won't give him his way WOMAN ONE Take a look at his trousers, you'll see where he stands! WOMAN FOUR -nd the boss, he never knows That the oreman is always in heat WOMAN THREE I 3antine doesn't look out "ath how she goes She'll be out on the street! WORKERS -t the end o the day it's another day over "ith enough in your poket to last or a week ;ay the landlord, pay the shop
$oh111=Dear 3antine you must send us more money111 Your hild needs a dotor111 There's no time to lose111= FANTINE 9ive that letter to me It is none o your business "ith a husband at home -nd a bit on the side! Is there anyone here "ho an swear beore 9od She has nothing to ear& She has nothing to hide& [They fight over the letter. $al%ean ). )adeleine rushes on to break u! the suabble.] VALJEAN "hat is this ighting all about& "ill someone tear these two apart This is a atory, not a irus! ow, ome on ladies, settle down I run a business o repute I am the /ayor o this town [To the forean] I look to you to sort this out -nd be as patient as you an. [He goes back into the factory] FOREMAN ow someone say how this began! FACTORY GIRL -t the end o 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 an guess how she piks up the e>tra You an bet she's earning her keep Sleeping around -nd the boss wouldn't like it! FANTINE Yes it's true there's a hild -nd the hild is my daughter -nd her ather abandoned us Leaving us lat ow she lives with an innkeeper man -nd his wie 9@
-nd I pay or the hild "hat's the matter with that& WOMEN -t the end o the day She'll be nothing but trouble -nd there's trouble or all "hen there's trouble or one! "hile we're earning our daily bread She's the one with her hands in the butter You must send the slut away $r we're all gonna end in the gutter -nd it's us who'll have to pay -t the end o the day! FOREMAN I might have known the bith ould bite I might have known the at had laws I might have guessed your little seret -h yes, the virtuous 3antine "ho keeps hersel so pure and lean You'd be the ause I had no doubt $ any trouble hereabout You play a virgin in the light %ut need no urgin' in the night1 FACTORY GIRL She's been laughing at you "hile she's having her men WOMEN She'll be nothing but trouble again and again FACTORY GIRL You must sak her today WORKERS Sak the girl today! FOREMAN :ight my girl1 $n your way! I !REAME! A !REAM [Fantine is left alone, une!loyed and destitute.] FANTINE There was a time when men were kind "hen their voies were sot -nd their words inviting There was a time when love was blind 9
-nd the world was a song -nd the song was e>iting There was a time Then it all went wrong? I dreamed a dream in times gone by "hen hope was high -nd lie worth living I dreamed that love would never die I dreamed that 9od would be orgiving Then I was young and unaraid -nd dreams were made and used and wasted There was no ransom to be paid o song unsung o wine untasted %ut the tigers ome at night "ith their voies sot as thunder -s they tear your hope apart -nd they turn your dream to shame #e slept a summer by my side #e illed my days with endless wonder #e took my hildhood in his stride %ut he was gone when autumn ame -nd still I dream he'll ome to me That we'll live the years together %ut there are dreams that annot be -nd there are storms we annot weather I had a dream my lie would be So muh dierent rom this hell I'm living So dierent now rom what it seemed ow lie has killed the dream I dreamed? LOVELY LA!IES [The docks. *ailors, whores and their custoers, !i!s, etc. Fantine wanders in.] SAILOR ONE I smell women Smell 'em in the air Think I'll drop my anhor In that harbour over there SAILOR TWO Lovely ladies Smell 'em through the smoke Seven days at sea 98
6an make you hungry or a poke SAILOR THREE @ven stokers need a little stoke! WHORES Lovely ladies "aiting or a bite "aiting or the ustomer "ho only omes at night Lovely ladies "aiting or the all Standing up or lying down $r any way at all %argain pries up against the wall OL! WOMAN 6ome here, my dear Let's see this trinket you wear This bagatelle111 FANTINE /adame, I'll sell it to you111 OL! WOMAN I'll give you our FANTINE That wouldn't pay or the hain OL! WOMAN I'll give you ive, you're ar too eager to sell, it's up to you1 FANTINE It's all I have OL! WOMAN That's not my ault FANTINE ;lease make it ten OL! WOMAN o more than ive /y dear, we all must stay alive! WHORES Lovely ladies "aiting in the dark :eady or a thik one $r a Auik one in the park ;:
WHORE 1 Long time short time -ny time, my dear 6ost a little e>tra i you want to take all year! ALL Buik and heap is underneath the pier! CRONE "hat pretty hair "hat pretty loks you got there "hat luk you got, it's worth a entime my dear I'll take the lot FANTINE Don't touh me! Leave me alone! CRONE Let's make a prie, I'll give you all o ten rans Just think o that! FANTINE It pays a debt CRONE Just think o that FANTINE "hat an I do& It pays a debt1 Ten rans may save my poor 6osette! SAILOR THREE Lovely lady! 3astest on the street "asn't there three minutes She was bak up on her eet SAILOR ONE Lovely lady! "hat yer waiting or& Doesn't take a lot o savvy Just to be a whore 6ome on, lady "hat's a lady or&
WHORES Lovely ladies Lovely little girls Lovely ladies Lovely little ladies Lovely girlies Lovely little girls "e are lovely, lovely girls Lovely ladies "hat's a lady or&
[Fantine re&eerges, her long hair cut short.] PIMP 9ive me the dirt, who's that bit over there&
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WHORE 1 - bit o skirt, she's the one sold her hair1 WHORE 2 She's got a kid sends her all that she an PIMP I might have known There is always some man Lovely lady, ome along and 5oin us! Lovely lady! WHORE 1 6ome on dearie, why all the uss& You're no grander than the rest o us Lie has dropped you at the bottom o the heap Join your sisters
WHORE 2 /ake money in your sleep! [Fantine goes off with one of the sailors.] WHORE 1 That's right dearie, let him have the lot WHORE 3 That's right dearie, show him what you've got! [Fantine goes off with one of the sailors.] WOMEN $ld men, young men, take 'em as they ome #arbour rats and alley ats and every kind o sum ;oor men, rih men, leaders o the land See them with their trousers o they're never Auite as grand -ll it takes is money in your hand! Lovely ladies 9oing or a song 9ot a lot o allers %ut they never stay or long FANTINE 6ome on, 6aptain You an wear your shoes Don't it make a hange To have a girl who an't reuse @asy money Lying on a bed ;;
Just as well they never see The shame that's in your head Don't they know they're making love To one already dead! FANTINE$S ARREST ["aatabois is a well&dressed gentlean.] BAMATABOIS #ere's something newC I think I'll give it a try1 6ome loser you! I like to see what I buy The usual prie, or 5ust a slie o your pie FANTINE I don't want you, no, no, m'sieur, let me go1 BAMATABOIS Is this a trik& I won't pay more! FANTINE o, not at all1 BAMATABOIS You've got some nerve, you little whore You've got some gall1 It's the same with a tart as it is with a groer The ustomer sees what he gets in advane It's not or the whore to say 'yes sir' or 'no sir' It's not or the harlot to pik and to hoose $r lead me to a dane! [He hits her with his stick2 she claws at his face, drawing blood.] FANTINE I'll kill you, you bastard, try any o that! @ven a whore who has gone to the bad "on't be had by a rat! BAMATABOIS %y 6hrist you'll pay or what you have done This rat will make you bleed, you'll see! I guarantee, I'll make you suer 3or this disturbane o the peae 3or this insult to lie and property! FANTINE I beg you, don't report me sir I'll do whatever you may want
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BAMATABOIS /ake your e>use to the polie! [-avert enters, acco!anied by constables.] JAVERT Tell me Auikly what's the story "ho saw what and why and where Let him give a ull desription Let him answer to Javert! In this nest o whores and vipers Let one speak who saw it all "ho laid hands on this good man here& "hat's the substane o this brawl& BAMATABOIS Javert, would you believe it I was rossing rom the park "hen this prostitute attaked me You an see she let her mark JAVERT She will answer or her ations "hen you make a ull report You may rest assured, /'sieur, That she will answer to the ourt1 FANTINE There's a hild who sorely needs me ;lease /'sieur, she's but that high #oly 9od, is there no mery& I I go to 5ail she'll die! JAVERT I have heard suh protestations @very day or twenty years Let's have no more e>planations Save your breath and save your tears #onest work, 5ust reward, That's the way to please the Lord1 [Fantine gives a last des!airing cry as she is arrested. $al%ean eerges fro the crowd.] VALJEAN - moment o your time, Javert I do believe this woman's tale JAVERT %ut /'sieur /ayor! ;=
VALJEAN You've done your duty Let her be She needs a dotor, not a 5ail1 JAVERT %ut /'sieur /ayor! FANTINE 6an this be& VALJEAN "here will she end . This hild without a riend& I've seen your ae beore Show me some way to help you #ow have you ome to grie In suh a plae as this& FANTINE /'sieur, don't mok me now, I pray It's hard enough I've lost my pride You let your oreman send me away Yes, you were there, and turned aside I never did no wrong VALJEAN Is it true, what I have done& FANTINE /y daughter's lose to dying111 VALJEAN To an innoent soul& FANTINE I there's a 9od above VALJEAN #ad I only known then111 FANTINE #e'd let me die instead VALJEAN In #is name my task has 5ust begun I will see it done! JAVERT %ut /'sieur /ayor! ;>
VALJEAN I will see it done! JAVERT %ut /'sieur /ayor! VALJEAN I will see it done! VOICES Look out! It's a runaway art!
THE RUNAWAY CART [The crowd !arts to reveal that the cart has crashed, tra!!ing ). Fauchelevant.] VOICES Look at that! Look at that! It's /onsieur 3auhelevant! Don't approah! Don't go near! -t the risk o your lie! #e is aught by the wheel! $h, the pitiul man1 Stay away, turn away, There is nothing to do11 There is nothing to do11 VALJEAN Is there anyone here "ho will resue the man& "ho will help me to shoulder The weight o the art& VOICES Don't go near him, /r1 /ayor The load is heavy as hell The old man's a goner or sure It'll kill you as well1 [$al%ean atte!ts to lift the cart. They anage to !ull Fauchelevant clear.] FAUCHELEVANT /'sieur le /ayor, I have no words You ome rom 9od, you are a saint1 [-avert takes $al%ean aside.]
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JAVERT 6an this be true& I don't believe what I see! - man your age To be as strong as you are111 - memory stirs11 You make me think o a man 3rom years ago - man who broke his parole #e disappeared 3orgive me, Sir, I would not dare! VALJEAN Say what you must, don't leave it there1 JAVERT I have only known one other "ho an do what you have done #e's a onvit rom the hain gang #e's been ten years on the run %ut he ouldn't run orever "e have ound his hideaway -nd he's 5ust been re.arrested -nd he omes to ourt today1 $ ourse he now denies it You'd e>pet that o a on %ut he ouldn't run orever, o, not even Jean 4al5ean! VALJEAN You say this man denies it all -nd gives no sign o understanding or repentane& You say this man is going to trial -nd that's he's sure to be returned To serve his sentene& 6ome to that, an you be sure, That I am not your man& JAVERT I have known the thie or ages Traked him down through thik and thin -nd to make the matter ertain There's the brand upon his skin #e will bend, he will break This time there is no mistake1 [-avert leaves, $al%ean is alone.] WHO AM I" T%& T'()*# ;@
VALJEAN #e thinks that man is me! #e knew him at a glane! That stranger he has ound This man ould be my hane "hy should I save his hide "hy should I right this wrong "hen I have ome so ar -nd struggled or so long& I I speak, I am ondemned I I stay silent, I am damned! I am the master o hundreds o workers They all look to me #ow an I abandon them, how an they live I I am not ree& I I speak, I am ondemned I I stay silent, I am damned! "ho am I& 6an I ondemn this man to slavery ;retend I do not see his agony This innoent who bears my ae "ho goes to 5udgement in my plae "ho am I& 6an I oneal mysel or evermore& ;retend I'm not the man I was beore& -nd must my name until I die %e no more than an alibi& /ust I lie& #ow an I ever ae my ellow man& #ow an I ever ae mysel again& /y soul belongs to 9od, I know I made that bargain long ago #e gave me hope, when hope was gone #e gave me strength to 5ourney on [He ste!s in front of the court] "ho am I& "ho am I& Im Jean 4al5ean! [He unbuttons his shirt to reveal the nuber tattooed to his chest.] -nd so Javert, you see it's true, That man bears no more guilt than you! ;
"ho am I& ()*+! COME TO ME F)+,(+&$ !&),%# [Fantine is lying in a hos!ital bed, deliriously dreaing of her daughter 3osette.] FANTINE 6osette, it's turned so old 6osette, it's past your bedtime You've played the day away -nd soon it will be night1 6ome to me, 6osette, the light is ading Don't you see the evening star appearing& 6ome to me, and rest against my shoulder #ow ast the minutes ly away and every minute older1 #urry near, another day is dying Don't you hear, the winter wind is rying& There's a darkness whih omes without a warning %ut I will sing you lullabies and wake you in the morning1 [$al%ean enters.] VALJEAN $h, 3antine, our time is running out %ut 3antine, I swear this on my lie FANTINE Look, /'sieur, where all the hildren play VALJEAN %e at peae, be at peae evermore1 FANTINE /y 6osette111 VALJEAN Shall live in my protetion FANTINE Take her now VALJEAN Your hild will want or nothing FANTINE 9ood /'sieur, you ome rom 9od in #eaven1
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VALJEAN -nd none will ever harm 6osette -s long as I am living1 FANTINE Take my hand, The night grows ever older1 VALJEAN Then I will keep you warm1 FANTINE Take my hild, I give her to your keeping1 VALJEAN Take shelter rom the storm FANTINE 3or 9od's sake, please stay till I am sleeping -nd tell 6osette I love her -nd I'll see her when I wake111 [*he dies with a sile2 -avert arrives.] THE CONFRONTATION JAVERT 4al5ean, at last, "e see eah other plain 8/'sieur le /ayor', You'll wear a dierent hain1 VALJEAN %eore you say another word, Javert %eore you hain me up like a slave again Listen to me! There is something I must do1 This woman leaves behind a suering hild1 There is none but me who an interede, In /ery's name, three days are all I need1 Then I'll return, I pledge my word1 Then I'll return111 JAVERT You must think me mad! I've hunted you aross the years - man like you an never hange - man111 suh as you111 VALJEAN (+ ./0+,&'/(+,# %elieve o me what you will There is a duty that I'm sworn to do
You know nothing o my lie -ll I did was steal some bread You know nothing o the world <:
You would rather see me dead %ut not beore I see this 5ustie done I am warning you Javert I'm a stronger man by ar There is power in me yet /y rae is not yet run I am warning you Javert There is nothing I won't dare I I have to kill you here I'll do what must be done! JAVERT (+ ./0+,&'/(+,# /en like me an never hange /en like you an never hange
o, ()*+, /y duty's to the law You have no rights 6ome with me ()*+ ow the wheel has turned around Jean 4al5ean is nothing now Dare you talk to me o rime -nd the prie you had to pay @very man is born in sin @very man must hoose his way You know nothing o Javert I was born inside a 5ail I was born with sum like you I am rom the gutter too!
[$al%ean breaks chair and threatens -avert with the broken !iece. Turns to Fantine.] VALJEAN -nd this I swear to you tonight JAVERT There is no plae or you to hide VALJEAN Your hild will live within my are JAVERT "herever you may hide away VALJEAN -nd I will raise her to the light1 VALJEAN )+ JAVERT I swear to you, I will be there! [They fight, -avert is knocked out. $al%ean esca!es.] CASTLE ON A CLOU! [4oung 3osette is working as a drudge in the Thenardiers inn at )ontfereil.] YOUNG COSETTE There is a astle on a loud, I like to go there in my sleep, -ren't any loors or me to sweep, ot in my astle on a loud1 There is a room that's ull o toys, There are a hundred boys and girls, <9
obody shouts or talks too loud, ot in my astle on a loud1 There is a lady all in white, #olds me and sings a lullaby, She's nie to hear and she's sot to touh, She says =6osette, I love you very muh=1 I know a plae where no one's lost, I know a plae where no one ries, 6rying at all is not allowed, ot in my astle on a loud1 $h help! I think I hear them now, and I'm nowhere near inished sweeping and srubbing and polishing the loor1 $h, it's her! It's /adame! M& THENAR!IER ow look who's here The little madam hersel! ;retending one again she's been 8so awully good', %etter not let me ath you slaking %etter not ath my eye! Ten rotten rans your mother sends me "hat is that going to buy& ow take that pail /y little 8/ademoiselle' -nd go and draw some water rom the well! "e should never have taken you in in the irst plae #ow stupid, the things that we do! Like mother like daughter, the sum o the street1 @ponine, ome my dear, @ponine, let me see you You look very well in that new little blue hat There's some little girls who know how to behave -nd they know what to wear -nd I'm saying thank heaven or that1 Still there 6osette& Your tears will do you no good1 I told you eth some water rom the well in the wood111 YOUNG COSETTE ;lease do not send me out alone ot in the darkness on my own! M& THENAR!IER @nough o that, or I'll orget to be nie! You heard me ask or something, -nd I never ask twie! <;
[4oung 6!onine !ushes 3osette out. Thenardier says good night to his daughter as the inn fills u! for the evening.] MASTER OF THE HOUSE !RINKER THREE 6ome on you old pest !RINKER TWO 3eth a bottle o your best !RINKER ONE "hat's the netar o the day& Thenardier enters with a flask of wine THENAR!IER #ere, try this lot 9uaranteed to hit the spot $r I'm not Thenardier !RINKER FOUR 9issa glass a rum Landlord, over here! THENAR!IER :ight away, you sum Eto himselF :ight away, m'sieur Eto ustomerF !RINKER ONE 9od this plae has gone to hell !RINKER TWO So you tell me every year !RINKER THREE /ine host Thenardier #e was there so they say, -t the ield o "aterloo !RINKER FOUR 9ot there, it's true "hen the ight was all through !RINKER ONE %ut he knew 5ust what to do 6rawling through the mud So I've heard it said ;iking through the pokets $ the @nglish dead !RINKER TWO <<
#e made a tidy sore 3rom the spoils o war THENAR!IER /y band o soaks /y den o dissolutes /y dirty 5okes, my always pissed as newts1 /y sons o whores Spent their lives in my inn #oming pigeons homing in They ly through my doors -nd their money's as good as yours !RINKER THREE -in't got a lue "hat he put in this stew /ust have sraped it o the street !RINKER TWO 9od what a wine! 6hateau eu de Turpentine /ust have pressed it with his eet !RINKER FOUR Landlord over here! "here's the bloody man& $ne more or the road! Thenardier, one more slug o' gin1 GIRL Just one more, or my old man is gonna do me in1 [Thenardier greets a new custoer.] THENAR!IER "elome, /'sieur Sit yoursel down -nd meet the best Innkeeper in town -s or the rest -ll o 'em rooks :ooking their guests -nd ooking the books Seldom do you see #onest men like me - gent o good intent "ho's ontent to be /aster o the house Doling out the harm :eady with a handshake <=
-nd an open palm Tells a sauy tale /akes a little stir 6ustomers appreiate a bon.viveur 9lad to do a riend a avour Doesn't ost me to be nie %ut nothing gets you nothing @verything has got a little prie! /aster o the house
-nd nothing's overlooked Till I'm satisied 3ood beyond ompare 3ood beyond belie /i> it in a miner -nd pretend it's bee tras on the side! 6harge 'em or the lie @>tra or the mie Two perent or looking in the mirror twie #ere a little slie There a little ut Three perent or sleeping with the window shut "hen it omes to i>ing pries There are a lot o triks he knows #ow it all inreases -ll those bits and piees Jesus! It's amaGing how it grows! THENAR!IER CHORUS /aster o the house Buik to ath yer eye ever wants a passer.by To pass him by Servent to the poor %utler to the great 6omorter, philosopher, -nd lielong mate! @verybody's boon ompanion 9ives 'em everything he's got THENAR!IER Dirty bunh o geeGers Jesus! "hat a sorry little lot! M& THENAR!IER I used to dream That I would meet a prine %ut 9od -lmighty, #ave you seen what's happened sine& /aster o the house& Isn't worth me spit!
86omorter, philosopher' . and lielong shit! 6unning little brain :egular 4oltaire Thinks he's Auite a lover %ut there's not muh there "hat a ruel trik o nature Landed me with suh a louse 9od knows how I've lasted Living with this bastard in the house! THENAR!IER CHORUS /aster o the house! M& THENAR!IER /aster and a hal! THENAR!IER CHORUS 6omorter, philosopher M& THENAR!IER -h, don't make me laugh! THENAR!IER CHORUS Servant to the poor %utler to the great M& THENAR!IER #yporite and toady -nd inebriate! THENAR!IER CHORUS @verybody bless the landlord! @verybody bless his spouse! THENAR!IER @verybody raise a glass M& THENAR!IER :aise it up the master's arse ALL @verybody raise a glass to the master o the house! THE BARGAIN6THE WALT7 OF TREACHERY [$al%ean and 4oung 3osette arrive at the now e!ty inn, hand in hand.] VALJEAN I ound her wandering in the wood This little hild, I ound her trembling in the shadows <@
-nd I am here to help 6osette -nd I will settle any debt you may think proper I will pay what I must pay To take 6osette away1 There is a duty I must heed, There is a promise I have made 3or I was blind to one in need I did not see what stood beore me ow her mother is with 9od 3antine's suering is over -nd I speak here with her voie -nd I stand here in her plae -nd rom this day and evermore M& THENAR!IER Let me have your oat, /'sieur VALJEAN 6osette shall live in my protetion THENAR!IER You are very welome here VALJEAN I shall not orsake my vow THENAR!IER Take a glass M& THENAR!IER Take a hair VALJEAN 6osette shall have a ather now! THENAR!IER "hat to do& "hat to say& Shall you arry our treasure away& "hat a gem! "hat a pearl! %eyond rubies is our little girl! #ow an we speak o debt& Let's not haggle or darling 6osette! Dear 3antine, gone to rest #ave we done or her hild what is best& Shared our bread, shared eah bone Treated her like she's one o our own! Like our own, /onsieur!
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VALJEAN Your eelings do you redit, sir -nd I will ease the parting blow [He !ays the.] Let us not talk o bargains or bones or greed ow, may I say, we are agreed& M& THENAR!IER That would Auite it the bill I she hadn't so oten been ill Little dear, ost us dear /ediines are e>pensive, /'sieur ot that we begrudged a sou It's no more than we 6hristians must do! M M& THENAR!IER $ne thing more, one small doubt There are treaherous people about o oense, please relet Your intentions may not be111 orret& VALJEAN o more words, here's your prie1 3iteen hundred or your sariie 6ome, 6osette, say goodbye, Let us seek out some riendlier sky1 Thank you both or 6osette It won't take you too long to orget1 [$al%ean and 3osette leave the inn.] 6ome, 6osette, ome, my dear 3rom now on I will always be here "here I go, you will be1 COSETTE "ill there be hildren -nd astles to see& VALJEAN Yes, 6osette, Yes, it's true There's a astle 5ust waiting or you111 LOOK !OWN [18('. The teeing, sualid streets of 7aris. "eggars, urchins, !rostitutes, students, etc.] <8
BEGGARS Look down, look down, and see the beggars at your eet Look down and show some mery i you an Look down and see The sweepings o the streets Look down, look down, 0pon your ellow man! GAVROCHE #ow do you do& /y name's 9avrohe These are my people, here's my path ot muh to look at, nothing posh othing that you'd all up to srath This is my shool, my high soiety #ere in the slums o Saint /ihele "e live on rumbs o humble piety Tough on the teeth, but what the hell! Think you're poor& Think you're ree& 3ollow me, ollow me! BEGGARS Look down, and show some mery i you an Look down, look down, upon your ellow man [n old beggar woan finds a young !rostitute occu!ying her !atch.] OL! BEGGAR WOMAN "hat you think yer at& #anging round me pith& I you're new around here, girl You've got a lot to learn YOUNG PROSTITUTE Listen you old bat 6raGy bloody with 'Least I give my ustomers Some pleasure in return OL! BEGGAR WOMAN I know what you give! 9ive 'em all the po>! Spread around your poison Till they end up in a bo> PIMP Leave the poor old ow, /ove it, /adeleine She used to be no better Till the lap got to her brain =:
BEGGARS "hen's it gonna end& "hen we gonna live& Something's gotta happen now or Something's gonna give111 It'll ome, it'll ome, it'll ome It'll ome, it'll ome, it'll ome ENJOLRAS "here the leaders o the land& "here are the swells who run this show& MARIUS $nly one man . and that's LamarAue Speaks or these people here below BEGGARS See our hildren ed #elp us in our shame Something or a rust o bread In #oly Jesus' name URCHIN In the Lord's #oly name1 BEGGARS In his name, in his name, in his name111 MARIUS LamarAue is ill and ading ast! "on't last the week out so they say ENJOLRAS "ith all the anger in the land #ow long beore the 5udgement day& %eore we ut the at ones down to siGe& %eore the barriades arise& GAVROCHE "ath out or old Thenardier -ll o his amily is on the make $ne ran a hash.house down the way %it o a swine and no mistake #e's got a gang The bleeding layabout @ven his daughter does her share That's @ponine, she knows her way about $nly a kid, but hard to sare Do we are& ot a uss! Long live us, long live us! =9
BEGGARS Look down, and show some mery i you an Look down, look down, upon your ellow man! THE ROBBERY [Thenardier assebling his gang.] THENAR!IER @veryone here, you know your plae %ru5on, %abet, 6laAuesous You, /ontparnasse, wath or the law "ith @ponine, take are1 You turn on the tears o mistakes, my dears M& THENAR!IER These bloody students on our street #ere they ome slumming one again $ur @ponine would kiss their eet She never had a srap o brain MARIUS #ey @ponine, what's up today& I haven't seen you muh about1 EPONINE #ere, you an always ath me in1 MARIUS /ind the polie don't ath you out! EPONINE #ere, what dyou do with all these books& I ould have been a student too! Don't 5udge a girl on how she looks111 I know a lot o things, I do! MARIUS ;oor @ponine, the things you know You wouldn't ind in books like these1 EPONINE I like the way you grow your hair MARIUS I like the way you always tease EPONINE Little he knows! Little he sees! =;
[$al%ean arrives with 3osette, now grown u!.] M& THENAR!IER #ere's the old boy1 Stay on the 5ob and wath out or the law1 EPONINE 8,/ M)'(09 Stay out o this1 MARIUS %ut @ponine111 EPONINE You'll be in trouble here It's not your onern You'll be in the lear [*he !ushes )arius away.] MARIUS "ho is that man& EPONINE Leave me alone! MARIUS "hy is he here& #ey, @ponine! [He begins to follow her, and bu!s into 3osette.] I didn't see you there, orgive me1 THENAR!IER ;lease /'sieur, ome this way #ere's a hild that ain't eaten today1 Save a lie, spare a sou 9od rewards all the good that you do1 "ait a bit1
EPONINE It's the polie! Disappear! :un or it! It's Javert! JAVERT$S INTERVENTION [-avert and constables break u! the fight. $al%ean !icks hiself u! and looks for 3osette, who is with )arius.] JAVERT -nother brawl in the sAuare -nother stink in the air! "as there a witness to this& "ell, let him speak to Javert! /'sieur, the streets are not sae, %ut let these vermin beware "e'll see that 5ustie is done! Look upon this ine olletion 6rawled rom underneath a stone This swarm o worms and maggots 6ould have piked you to the bone! I know this man over here I know his name and his trade -nd on your witness, /'sieur, "e'll see him suitably paid1 [$al%ean and 3osette have disa!!eared.] %ut where's the gentleman gone& -nd why on earth did he run& THENAR!IER You will have a 5ob to ath him #e's the one you should arrest o more bourgeois when you srath him Than that brand upon his hest! [The constables search for $al%ean.] JAVERT 6ould it be he's some old 5ailbird That the tide now washes in #eard my name and started running #ad the brand upon his skin -nd the girl who stood beside him "hen I turned they both had gone 6ould he be the man I've hunted& 6ould it be he's Jean 4al5ean&
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THENAR!IER In the absene o a vitim, Dear Inspetor, may I go& -nd remember when you've niked him, It was me who told you so! JAVERT Let the old man keep on running I will run him o his eet! @veryone about your business 6lear this garbage o the street! STARS JAVERT There, out in the darkness - ugitive running 3allen rom 9od 3allen rom grae 9od be my witness I never shall yield Till we ome ae to ae Till we ome ae to ae #e knows his way in the dark /ine is the way o the Lord -nd those who ollow the path o the righteous Shall have their reward -nd i they all -s Luier ell The lame The sword! Stars In your multitudes Sare to be ounted 3illing the darkness "ith order and light You are the sentinels Silent and sure
-nd so it has been and and so it is written $n the doorway to paradise That those who alter and those who all /ust pay the prie! Lord let me ind him That I may see him Sae behind bars I will never rest Till then, this I swear This I swear by the stars! GAVROCHE That inspetor thinks he's something %ut it's me who runs this town! -nd my theatre never loses loses -nd the urtain's never never down Trust 9avrohe, have no ear Don't you worry, auntie dear, You an always ind me here! EPONINE$S ERRAN! [6!onine is alone in the suare.] EPONINE 6osette! ow I remember! 6osette! #ow an it be& "e were hildren together Look what's beome o me111 [)arius returns.] 9ood 9od! $h, what a rumpus! MARIUS That girl, who an she be& EPONINE That op! #e'd like to 5ump us %ut he ain't smart, not he1 MARIUS @ponine, who was that girl& EPONINE Some bourgeois two.a.penny thing! MARIUS @ponine, ind her or me! =?
EPONINE "hat will you give me& MARIUS -nything! EPONINE 9ot you all e>ited now, %ut 9od knows what you see in her -in't you all delighted now [*he refuses )arius oney.] oney.] o, I don't want your money sir111 MARIUS @ponine, do this or me111 Disover where she lives %e areul how you go Don't let her ather know111 ';onine! I'm lost until she's ound! EPONINE You see, I told you so! There's lots o things I know111 know111 [)arius leaves.] ';onine111 she knows her way around111
RE! AN! BLACK T%& ABC C):;# [The "3 3af9, where the students, led by 6n%olras, eet to discuss their revolutionary !lans.] COMBEFERRE @n5olras! -t otre Dame The setions are prepared! FEUILLY -t rue de %a They're straining at the leash!
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COURFEYRAC Students, workers, everyone There's a river on the run Like the lowing o the tide ;aris oming to our side! ENJOLRAS The time is near111 near111 So near? it's stirring the blood in their veins! -nd yet beware111 Don't let the wine go to your brains! 3or the army we ight is a dangerous oe "ith the men and the arms that we never an math $h, it's easy to sit here and swat 'em like lies %ut the national guard will be harder to ath1 "e need a sign To rally the people To all them to arms To bring them in line! [)arius enters.] /arius, you're late1 JOLY "hat's wrong today& You look as i you've seen a ghost1 GRANTAIRE Some wine and say what's going on! MARIUS - ghost ghost you say111 say111 a ghost maybe She was 5ust like a ghost to me $ne minute there, and she was gone! GRANTAIRE I am agog! I am aghast! Is /arius in love at last& Ive never heard him Hooh' and Haah' You talk o battles to be won %ut here he omes like Don Juan It's better than an o.per.a! ENJOLRAS It is time or us all to deide who we are111 Do we ight or the right To a night at the opera now& #ave you asked o yourselves =
"hat's the prie you might pay& Is it simply a game 3or rih young boys to play& The olours o the world -re hanging day by day111 :ed . the blood o angry men! %lak . the dark o ages past! :ed . a world about to dawn! %lak . the night that ends at last! MARIUS #ad you been there tonight You might know how it eels To be struk to the bone In a moment o breathless delight! #ad you been there tonight You might also have known #ow the world may be hanged In 5ust one burst o light! -nd what was right seems wrong -nd what was wrong seems right111 GRANTAIRE :ed111 MARIUS I eel my soul on ire! GRANTAIRE %lak111 MARIUS /y world i she's not there111 ALL :ed111 MARIUS The olour o desire! ALL %lak111 MARIUS The olour o despair! ENJOLRAS /arius, you're no longer a hild I do not doubt you mean it well %ut now there is a higher all =8
"ho ares about your lonely soul "e strive toward a larger goal $ur little lives don't ount at all! ALL :ed . the blood o angry men! %lak . the dark o ages past! :ed . a world about to dawn! %lak . the night that ends at last! ENJOLRAS "ell, 6oureyra, do we have all the guns& 3euilly, 6ombeerre, our time is running short1 9rantaire, put the bottle down! Do we have the guns we need& GRANTAIRE 8'0+<9 9ive me brandy on my breath -nd I'll breath 'em all to death! COURFEYRAC In St1 -ntoine they're with us to a man! COMBEFERRE In otre Dame they're tearing up the stones! FEUILLY Twenty riles good as new1 [/avroche rushes in, shouting.] GAVROCHE Listen! PROUVAIRE Double that in ;ort St1 6loud! GAVROCHE Listen everybody! LESGLES Seven guns in St1 /artin! GAVROCHE 9eneral LamarAue is dead! ENJOLRAS LamarAue is dead1 LamarAue! #is death is the hour o ate1 The people's man1 #is death is the sign we await! >:
$n his uneral day they will honour his name1 It's a rallying ry that will reah every ear! In the death o LamarAue we will kindle the lame They will see that the day o salvation is near! The time is hear! Let us welome it gladly with ourage and heer Let us take to the streets with no doubt in our hearts %ut a 5ubilant shout They will ome one and all They will ome when we all! !O YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING ENJOLRAS Do you hear the people sing& Singing a song o angry men& It is the musi o a people "ho will not be slaves again! "hen the beating o your heart @hoes the beating o the drums There is a lie about to start "hen tomorrow omes! COMBEFERRE "ill you 5oin in our rusade& "ho will be strong and stand with me& Somewhere beyond the barriade Is there a world you long to see& COURFEYRAC Then 5oin in the ight That will give you the right to be ree!! ALL Do you hear the people sing& Singing a song o angry men& It is the musi o a people "ho will not be slaves again! "hen the beating o your heart @hoes the beating o the drums There is a lie about to start "hen tomorrow omes! FEUILLY "ill you give all you an give So that our banner may advane Some will all and some will live "ill you stand up and take your hane& The blood o the martyrs "ill water the meadows o 3rane! >9
ALL Do you hear the people sing& Singing a song o angry men& It is the musi o a people "ho will not be slaves again! "hen the beating o your heart @hos the beating o the drums There is a lie about to start "hen tomorrow omes! IN MY LIFE [3osette stands in her garden on 0ue 7luet.] COSETTE #ow strange, this eeling that my lie's begun at last This hange, an people really all in love so ast& "hat's the matter with you, 6osette& #ave you been too muh on your own& So many things unlear So many things unknown1 In my lie There are so many Auestions and answers That somehow seem wrong In my lie There are times when I ath in the silene The sigh o a araway song -nd it sings $ a world that I long to see $ut o reah Just a whisper away "aiting or me! Does he know I'm alive& Do I know i he's real& Does he see what I saw& Does he eel what I eel& In my lie I'm no longer alone ow the love in my lie Is so near 3ind me now, ind me here! VALJEAN Dear 6osette, You're suh a lonely hild #ow pensive, how sad you seem to me %elieve me, were it within my power I'd ill eah passing hour >;
#ow Auiet it must be, I an see "ith only me or ompany1 COSETTE There's so little I know That I'm longing to know $ the hild that I was In a time long ago There's so little you say $ the lie you have known "hy you keep to yoursel "hy we're always alone So dark, so dark and deep The serets that you keep! In my lie I have all that I want You are loving and gentle and good1 %ut ;apa, dear ;apa, In your eyes I am 5ust like a hild "ho is lost in a wood VALJEAN o more words o more words, it's a time that is dead There are words That are better unheard, better unsaid1 COSETTE In my lie I'm no longer a hild and I yearn 3or the truth that you know $ the years111 years ago! VALJEAN You will learn Truth is given by 9od To us all In our time In our turn [$al%ean leaves the garden2 )arius and 6!onine are outside.] MARIUS In my lie She has burst like the musi o angels The light o the sun -nd my lie seems to stop -s i something is over -nd something has sarely begun1 @ponine, you're the riend who has brought me here Thanks to you I am one with the 9ods ><
-nd #eaven is near! -nd I soar through a world that is new that is ree111 EPONINE 8,/ %&'&*:9 @very word that he says is a dagger in me! In my lie There's been no one like him anywhere -nywhere, where he is111 I he asked111 I'd be his MARIUS EPONINE In my lie There is someone who touhes my lie MARIUS "aiting near EPONINE "aiting here A HEART FULL OF LOVE [)arius goes into the garden, leaving 6!onine outside.] MARIUS - heart ull o love - heart ull o song I'm doing everything all wrong $h 9od, or shame I do not even know your name Dear /ad'moiselle "on't you say& "ill you tell& COSETTE - heart ull o love o ear, no regret MARIUS /y name is /arius ;ontmery COSETTE -nd mine's 6osette MARIUS 6osette, I don't know what to say COSETTE Then make no sound
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MARIUS I am lost COSETTE I am ound! MARIUS - heart ull o light COSETTE - night bright as day MARIUS -nd you must never go away 6osette, 6osette COSETTE This is a hain we'll never break MARIUS Do I dream& COSETTE I'm awake! MARIUS - heart ull o love EPONINE 8/0,(&= (+,&'>&.,(+?9 #e was never mine to lose COSETTE - heart ull o you EPONINE "hy regret what ould not be& MARIUS - single look and then I knew1 EPONINE These are words he'll never say COSETTE I knew it too1 EPONINE ot to me111 MARIUS 3rom today111 >>
EPONINE ot to me111 COSETTE @very day EPONINE ot or me111 COSETTE MARIUS 3or it isn't a dream ot a dream -ter all!
EPONINE #is heart ull o love #e will never 3eel this way111
[)arius and 3osette ove away as )ont!arnasse enters furtively.] THE ATTACK ON RUE PLUMET EPONINE ';arnasse, what are you doing So ar out o our path& MONTPARNASSE This house, we're going to do it :ih man, plenty o srath You remember he's the one "ho got away the other day 9ot a number on his hest ;erhaps a ortune put away! EPONINE $h Lord, somebody help me! Dear 9od, what'll I do& #e'll think this is an ambush #e'll think I'm in it too! "hat'll I do, what'll I say& I've got to warn them here I've got to ind a way1 [Thenardier arrives with the rest of his gang.] THENAR!IER This is his lair I've seen the old o> around #e keeps himsel to himsel #e's staying lose to the ground I smell proit here! >?
Ten years ago #e ame and paid or 6osette I let her go or a song It's time we settled the debt This'll ost him dear BRUJON "hat do I are "ho you should rob 9ive me my share 3inish the 5ob! THENAR!IER You shut your mouth 9ive me your hand [He notices 6!onine but doesnt recogni:e her.] BRUJON "hat have we here& THENAR!IER "ho is this hussy& BABET It's your brat @ponine Don't you know your own kid "hy's she hanging about you& THENAR!IER ';onine, get on home You're not needed in this "e're enough here without you EPONINE I know this house I tell you there's nothing here or you Just the old man and the girl They live ordinary lives THENAR!IER Don't interere You've got some gall Take are, young miss, You've got a lot to say! BRUJON She's going sot CLAQUESOUS #appens to all >@
MONTPARNASSE 9o home, ';onine, 9o home, you're in the way EPONINE I'm gonna sream, I'm gonna warn them here1 THENAR!IER $ne little sream and you'll regret it or a year1 CLAQUESOUS "hat a palaver "hat an absolute treat To wath a at and it's ather ;ik a bone in the street BRUJON ot a sound out o you! EPONINE "ell I told you I'd do it, told you I'd do it111 [*he screas.] THENAR!IER You wait my girl, you'll rue this night I'll make you sream, you'll sream all right Leave her to me, don't wait around /ake or the sewers, go underground! [The gang scatters.] MARIUS It was your ry sent them away $ne more ';onine saving the day Dearest 6osette, my riend ';onine %rought me to you, showed me the way! Someone is near Let's not be seen Somebody's here111 [)arius leaves uickly as $al%ean enters.] VALJEAN /y 9od, 6osette! I heard a ry in the dark I heard the shout o angry voies in the street1 COSETTE That was my ry you heard, ;apa1 >
I was araid o what they'd do1 They ran away when they heard my ry VALJEAN 6osette, my hild, what will beome o you& COSETTE Three men I saw beyond the wall Three men in shadow moving ast VALJEAN This is a warning to us all These are the shadows o the past /ust be Javert! #e's ound my over at last! I've got to get 6osette away %eore they return! "e must get away rom shadows They will never let us be Tomorrow to 6alais Then a ship aross the sea! #urry, 6osette, prepare to leave and say no more Tomorrow we'll away! #urry, 6osette, it's time to lose another door -nd live another day! ONE !AY MORE VALJEAN $ne day more, -nother day, another destiny, This never ending road to 6alvaryC These men who seem to know my rime "ill surely ome a seond time, $ne day more111 MARIUS I did not live until today #ow an I live when we are parted& VALJEAN $ne day more111 MARIUS COSETTE Tomorrow you'll be worlds away, -nd yet with you, my world has started1 EPONINE $ne more day all on my own
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MARIUS COSETTE "ill we ever meet again& EPONINE $ne more day with him not aring MARIUS COSETTE I was born to be with you1 EPONINE "hat a lie I might have known MARIUS COSETTE -nd I swear I will be true! EPONINE %ut he never saw me there111 ENJOLRAS $ne more day beore the storm! -t the barriades o 3reedom! "hen our ranks begin to orm, "ill you take your plae with me&
MARIUS Do I ollow where she goes! Shall I 5oin my brothers there! Do I stay or do I dare&
A** The time is now The plae is here VALJEAN $ne day more! JAVERT $ne more day till revolution, "e will nip it in the bud! I will 5oin these little shoolboysC They will wet themselves with blood! VALJEAN $ne day more! THENAR!IER MA!AME THENAR!IER "ath'm run amuk, 6ath'm when they all, ever know your luk "hen there's a ree or all, #ere a little pinh, There a little touh, /ost o them are goners So they won't miss muh!
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CHORUS $ne day to a new beginning :aise the lag o reedom high! @very man will be a king @very man will be a king There's a new world or the winning There's a new world to be won Do you hear the people sing& MARIUS /y plae is here I ight with you! VALJEAN $ne day more! MARIUS COSETTE I did not live until today111 Tomorrow you'll be worlds away -nd yet with you my world has started EPONINE $ne more day all on my own111 JAVERT I will 5oin these people's heros I will ollow where they go I will know their little serets, I will know the things they know1 VALJEAN $ne day more! M M&THENAR!IER "ath 'em run amuk 6ath 'em as they all ever know your luk "hen there's a ree.or.all JAVERT $ne more day to revolution "e will nip it in the bud "e'll be ready or these shoolboys
VALJEAN Tomorrow we'll be ar away, VALJEAN JAVERT Tomorrow is the 5udgement day ?9
ALL Tomorrow we'll disover "hat our 9od in #eaven has in store! $ne more dawn $ne more day $ne day more! [The curtain falls.]
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ACT II AT THE BARRICA!E UPON THESE STONES# [6n%olras is addressing the revolutionaries.] ENJOLRAS #ere upon these stones we will build our barriade In the heart o the ity we laim as our own! @ah man to his duty and don't be araid1 "ait! I will need a report on the strength o the oe1 JAVERT 8(?0(& ) ) '&@&*9 I an ind out the truth I know their ways 3ought their wars Served my time In the days $ my youth! PROUVAIRE ow the people will ight GRANTAIRE -nd so they might Dogs will bark 3leas will bite1 LESGLES They will do what is right ?;
[)arius s!ots 6!onine, who is dressed as a boy.] MARIUS #ey little boy, what's this I see& 9od @ponine, the things you do! EPONINE I know this is no plae or me Still I would rather be with you1 MARIUS 9et out beore the trouble starts 9et out, ';onine, you might get shot EPONINE I got you worried, now I have That shows you like me Auite a lot MARIUS There is a way that you an help You are the answer to a prayer ;lease take this letter to 6osette -nd pray to 9od that she's still there! [*he walks to the 0ue 7luet...] EPONINE Little you know111 Little you are! [...where she eets $al%ean.] I have a letter /'sieur It's addressed to your daughter 6osette It's rom a boy at the barriade, Sir In the :ue de 4illette1 VALJEAN 9ive me that letter here, my boy EPONINE #e said to give it to 6osette VALJEAN You have my word that my daughter will know "hat this letter ontains1 [He gives her a coin.] Tell the young man she will read it tomorrow -nd here's or your pains ?<
9o areul now, stay out o sight There's danger in the streets tonight1 [He o!ens the letter... and reads it.] Dearest 6osette, you have entered my soul -nd soon you will be gone1 6an it be only a day sine we met -nd the world was reborn& I I should all in the battle to ome Let this be my goodbye ow that I know you love me as well It is harder to die111 I pray that god will bring me home To be with you1 ;ray or your /arius, he prays or you!'' [$al%ean goes in, leaving 6!onine alone.] ON MY OWN EPONINE -nd now I'm all alone again owhere to turn, no one to go to "ithout a home, without a riend "ithout a ae to say hello to -nd now the night is near I an make believe he's here Sometimes I walk alone at night "hen everybody else is sleeping I think o him and I'm happy "ith the ompany I'm keeping The ity goes to bed -nd I an live inside my head $wn my own ;retending he's beside me -ll alone I walk with him till morning "ithout him I eel his arms around me -nd when I lose my way I lose my eyes -nd he has ound me In the rain the pavement shines like silver -ll the lights are misty in the river In the darkness, the trees are ull o starlight -nd all I see is him and me orever and orever
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-nd I know it's only in my mind That I'm talking to mysel and not to him -nd although I know that he is blind Still I say, there's a way or us I love him %ut when the night is over #e is gone The river's 5ust a river "ithout him The world around me hanges The trees are bare and everywhere The streets are ull o strangers I love him %ut every day I'm learning -ll my lie I've only been pretending "ithout me #is world would go on turning - world that's ull o happiness That I have never known I love him I love him I love him %ut only on my own1 BUIL!ING THE BARRICA!E [The barricade is now co!lete.] STU!ENTS ow we pledge ourselves to hold this barriade MARIUS Let them ome in their legions -nd they will be met ENJOLRAS #ave aith in yourselves -nd don't be araid GRANTAIRE Let's give 'em a srewing They'll never orget! COMBEFERRE This is where it begins!
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COURFEYRAC -nd i I should die in the ight to be ree "here the ighting is hardest There will I be FEUILLY Let them ome i they dare "e'll be there! ARMY OFFICER 8O::,)?&9 You at the barriade listen to this o one is oming to help you to ight You're on your own You have no riends 9ive up your guns . or die! ENJOLRAS Damn their warnings, damn their lies They will see the people rise! STU!ENTS Damn their warnings, damn their lies They will see the people rise! [-avert clibs over the barricade.] JAVERT’S ARRIVAL JAVERT Listen my riends I have done as I said I have been to their lines I have ounted eah man I will tell what I an %etter be warned They have armies to spare -nd the danger is real "e will need all our unning To bring them to heel1 ENJOLRAS #ave aith I you know what their movements are "e'll spoil their game There are ways that a people an ight "e shall overome their power JAVERT I have overheard their plans There will be no attak tonight They intend to starve us out ??
%eore they start a proper ight 6onentrate their ore #it us rom the right1 LITTLE PEOPLE [/avroche enters.] GAVROCHE Liar! 9ood evening, dear inspetor Lovely evening, my dear1 I know this man, my riends #is name is Inspetor Javert So don't believe a word he says '6ause none o it's true This only goes to show "hat little people an do! -nd little people know "hen little people ight "e may look easy pikings %ut we've got some bite So never kik a dog %eause he's 5ust a pup "e'll ight like twenty armies -nd we won't give up So you'd better run or over "hen the pup grows up! GRANTAIRE %ravo, little 9avrohe, you're the top o the lass! PROUVAIRE So what are we going to do "ith this snake in the grass& ENJOLRAS Tie this man and take him To the tavern in there The people will deide your ate Inspetor Javert! FEUILLY Take the bastard now and shoot him! LESGLES Let us wath the devil dane
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COURFEYRAC You'd have done the same Inspetor I we'd let you have your hane! JAVERT Shoot me now or shoot me later @very shoolboy to his sport Death to eah and every traitor I renoune your people's ourt! COMBEFERRE Though we may not all survive here There are things that never die GRANTAIRE "hat's the dierene& Die a shoolboy Die a polieman die a spy! ENJOLRAS Take this man, bring him through There is work we have to do! [-avert is bundled away as the first shots ring out. 6!onine enters, wounded.] A LITTLE FALL OF RAIN JOLY There's a boy limbing the barriade! MARIUS 9ood 9od! "hat are you doing& ';onine, have you no ear& #ave you seen my beloved& "hy have you ome bak here& EPONINE Took the letter like you said I met her ather at the door #e said he would give it [*he colla!ses] Don't think I an stand any more1 MARIUS @ponine, what's wrong& I eel111 There's something wet upon your hair [There is blood on his hands] ?
@ponine, you're hurt You need some help! $h 9od, it's everywhere1111 EPONINE Don't you ret, /'sieur /arius I don't eel any pain - little all o rain 6an hardly hurt me now You're here, that's all I need to know -nd you will keep me sae -nd you will keep me lose -nd rain will make the lowers grow1 MARIUS %ut you will live, ';onine . dear 9od above111 I I ould heal your wounds with words o love111 EPONINE Just hold me now, and let it be1 Shelter me, omort me111 MARIUS You would live - hundred years I I ould show you how I won't desert you now111 EPONINE The rain an't hurt me now This rain will wash away what's past -nd you will keep me sae -nd you will keep me lose I'll sleep in your embrae at last The rain that brings you here Is #eaven.blessed! The skies begin to lear -nd I'm at rest - breath away rom where you are I've ome home rom so ar EPONINE 8(+ ./0+,&'/(+,9 So don't you ret, /'sieur /arius I don't eel any pain - little all o rain 6an hardly hurt me now That's all I need to know -nd you will keep me sae -nd you will keep me lose
-nd rain "ill make the lowers111 MARIUS 8(+ ./0+,&'/(+,9 #ush.a.bye, dear @ponine You won't eel any pain - little all o rain 6an hardly hurt you now I'm here ?8
I will stay with you Till you are sleeping -nd rain
"ill make the lowers111 9row1
[*he dies. )arius kisses her, then lays her on the ground.] NIGHT OF ANGUISH ENJOLRAS She is the irst to all The irst o us to all upon this barriade MARIUS #er name was @ponine #er lie was old and dark, yet she was unaraid1 COMBEFERRE "e ight here in her name PROUVAIRE She will not die in vain1 LESGLES She will not be betrayed1 [They carry her body off.] [$al%ean arrives, dressed as a soldier.] JOLY #ere omes a man in uniorm "hat brings you to this plae& VALJEAN I ome here as a volunteer JOLY -pproah and show your ae1 PROUVAIRE You wear an army uniorm1 VALJEAN That's why they let me through1 JOLY You've got some years behind you sir1 VALJEAN There's muh that I an do1 @:
JOLY You see that prisoner over there& GRANTAIRE - volunteer like you! COMBEFERRE - spy who alls himsel Javert! GRANTAIRE #e's going to get it too111 PROUVAIRE They're getting ready to attak! [6n%olras gives $al%ean a gun.] ENJOLRAS Take this and use it well! %ut i you shoot us in the bak, You'll never live to tell1 THE FIRST ATTACK SENTRY ;latoon o sappers advaning toward the barriade! Troops behind them, ity men or more! ENJOLRAS 3I:@! [/unfire is heard.] FEUILLY Sniper! [$al%ean shoots a sni!er who is aiing at 6n%olras.] LESGLES See how they run away! GRANTAIRE %y 9od we've won the day! ENJOLRAS They will be bak again, /ake an attak again1 [To $al%ean. $al%ean.] ]
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3or your presene o mind 3or the deed you have done I will thank you /'sieur "hen our battle is won1 VALJEAN 9ive me no thanks /'sieur There is something that you an do1 ENJOLRAS I it is in my power111 VALJEAN 9ive me the spy Javert Let me take are o him JAVERT The law is inside out The world is upside down ENJOLRAS Do what you have to do, the man belongs to you1 The enemy may be regrouping1 #old yoursel in readiness1 6ome my riends, bak to your positions1 The night is alling ast111 [$al%ean has taken -avert away.] VALJEAN "e meet again1 JAVERT You've You've hungered or this all your lieC Take your revenge! #ow right you should kill with a knie! [$al%ean cuts the ro!es which bind -avert.] VALJEAN You talk too muh, Your lie is sae in my hands1 JAVERT I don't understand VALJEAN 9et out o here1 JAVERT 4al5ean, take are, I'm warning you111 @;
VALJEAN 6lear out o here1 JAVERT $ne a thie, orever a thie "hat you want you always steal! You would trade your lie or mine1 Yes, 4al5ean, you want a deal1 Shoot me now or all I are! I you let me go beware1 You'll You'll still answer to Javert! VALJEAN You are wrong, and always have been wrong1 I'm a man, no worse than any man1 You are ree, and there are no onditions, o bargains or petitions1 There's nothing that I blame you or1 o r1 You've done your duty, nothing more1 I I ome out o this alive, you'll ind me -t number ity.ive :ue ;lumet o doubt our paths will ross again1 [$al%ean fires his gun into the air, -avert leaves uickly. )uted a!!lause fro the students who think -avert has been shot.] ENJOLRAS 6oureyra, you take the wath They won't attak until it's light @verybody stay awake "e must be ready or the ight 3or the inal ight Let no one sleep tonight! !RINK WITH ME [The defenders settle down for the night with wine and a song.] ENJOLRAS /arius, rest1 FEUILLY Drink with me To days gone by Sing with me the songs we knew PROUVAIRE #ere's to pretty girls "ho went to our heads
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JOLY #ere's to witty girls "ho went to our beds ALL #ere's to them -nd here's to you! GRANTAIRE Drink with me To days gone by 6an it be you ear to die& "ill the world remember you when you all& 6ould it be your death means nothing at all& Is your lie 5ust one more lie& MEN Drink with me To days 9one by To the lie That used To be
WOMEN (+ ./0+,&'/(+,# Drink with me To days 9one by To the lie That used To be
WOMEN -t the shrine o riendship ever say die ALL Let the wine o riendship ever run dry #ere's to you -nd here's To me111 MARIUS Do I are i I should die ow she goes aross the sea& Lie without 6osette /eans nothing at all "ould you weep, 6osette, Should /arius all& "ill you weep, 6osette, 3or me& [)arius settles down to slee!.] BRING HIM HOME [$al%ean is standing over )arius at the barricade.] @=
VALJEAN 9od on high hear my prayer In my need You have always been there #e is young, he's araid Let him rest heaven blessed1 %ring him home %ring him home %ring him home1 #e's like the son I might have known I 9od had granted me a son1 The summers die one by one #ow soon they ly $n and on -nd I am old and will be gone1 %ring him peae, bring him 5oy #e is young, he is only a boy You an take, you an give Let him be, let him live I I die Let me die Let him live %ring him home %ring him home %ring him home1 [#ay breaks.] !AWN OF ANGUISH ENJOLRAS The people have not stirred "e are abandoned by those who still live in ear1 The people have not heard1 Yet will will not abandon those who annot hear1 Let us not waste lives Let all the women and athers o hildren 9o rom here1 FEUILLY Drink with me to days gone by Sing with me the songs we knew ALL -t the shrine o riendship :aise your glass high Let the wine o riendship ever run dry I I die I die with you! @>
THE SECON! ATTACK !&),% /: G)'/.% [The battle recoences.] ENJOLRAS #ow do we stand, 3euilly& /ake your report1 FEUILLY "e've guns enough %ut ammunition short MARIUS I will go into the streets There are bodies all around -mmunition to be had Lots o bullets to be ound! ENJOLRAS I an't let you go It's too muh o a hane1 MARIUS The same is true 3or any man here! VALJEAN Let me go #e's no more than a boy I am old I have nothing to ear GAVROCHE You need somebody Auiker -nd I volunteer! [/avroche clibs the barricade.] LESGLES 6ome bak 9avrohe, don't you dare! JOLY Someone pull him down at one! GAVROCHE Look at me, I'm almost there! [ shot rings out fro beyond the barricade. /avroche is hit.] GAVROCHE Little people know @?
"hen little people ight "e may look easy pikings %ut we've got some bite! [nother shot rings out.] So never kik a dog %eause he's 5ust a pup "e'll ight like twenty armies -nd we won't give up So you'd better run or over "hen the pup grows111 [ final shot. He dies.] THE FINAL BATTLE ARMY OFFICER 8:'/ @&/+ ,%& @)''(.)&9 You at the barriade listen to this The people o ;aris sleep in their beds You have no hane o hane at all "hy throw your lives away& ENJOLRAS Let us die aing our oes /ake them bleed while we an COMBEFERRE /ake 'em pay through the nose COURFEYRAC /ake 'em pay or every man! ENJOLRAS Let others rise To take our plae 0ntil the earth is ree! [idst increasingly heavy gunfire, )arius is shot. 6n%olras is killed at the suit of the barricade. ll at the barricade are killed, e;ce!t )arius, who is wounded and unconscious, and $al%ean. $al%ean discovers that )arius is still alive and carries hi down into the sewers to esca!e. -avert clibs over the barricade looking for $al%eans body.
THENAR!IER #ere's a hint o gold Stuk into a tooth ;ardon me /'sieur You won't be needing this no more1 Shouldn't be too hard to sell1 -dd it to the pile -dd it to the stok #ere among the sewer rats - breath away rom hell You get austomed to the smell1 "ell someone's got to lean 'em up, my riends %odies on the highway Law and order upside down Someone's got to ollet their odds and ends -s a servie to the town! [$al%ean arrives, carrying )arius, and colla!ses. Thenardier robs )arius.] #ere's a tasty ring ;retty little thing "ouldn't want to waste it That would really be a rime Thank you sir, I'm in your debt #ere's another toy Take it o the boy #is heart's no longer going -nd he's lived his little time %ut his wath is tiking yet! "ell, someone's got to lean them up, my riends %eore the little harvest Disappears into the mud Someone's got to ollet their odds and ends "hen the gutters run with blood1 It's a world where the dog eats the dog "here they kill or bones in the street -nd 9od in #is #eaven #e don't interere '6ause he's dead as the stis at my eet I raise my eyes to see the heavens -nd only the moon looks down The harvest moon shines down! [He turns over $al%eans body, recogni:es hi, and leaves. 6ventually, $al%ean !icks u! )arius again and walks through the sewers. s they eerge, they eet -avert.] @
JAVERT$S SUICI!E VALJEAN It's you, Javert I knew you wouldn't wait too long The aithul servant at his post one more! This man's done no wrong, -nd he needs a dotor's are1 JAVERT I warned you I would not give in I won't be swayed VALJEAN -nother hour yet -nd then I'm yours -nd all our debts are paid1 JAVERT The man o mery 6omes again -nd talks o 5ustie VALJEAN 6ome, time is running short Look down, Javert #e's standing in his grave
VALJEAN 9ive way, Javert There is a lie to save1
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-ll it would take "as a lik o his knie 4engeane was his -nd he gave me bak my lie! Damned i I'll live in the debt o a thie! Damned i I'll yield at the end o the hase1 I am the Law and the Law is not moked I'll spit his pity right bak in his ae There is nothing on earth that we share It is either 4al5ean or Javert! #ow an I now allow this man To hold dominion over me& This desperate man whom I have hunted #e gave me my lie, he gave me reedom1 I should have perished by his hand! It was his right1 It was my right to die as well Instead I live, but live in hell! -nd my thoughts ly apart 6an this man be believed& Shall his sins be orgiven& Shall his rimes be reprieved& -nd must I now begin to doubt "ho never doubted all these years& /y heart is stone and still it trembles The world I have known is lost in shadow1 Is he rom heaven or rom hell& -nd does he know That granting me my lie today This man has killed me even so& I am reahing, but I all -nd the stars are blak and old1 -s I stare into the void $ a world that annot hold I'll esape now rom the world 3rom the world o Jean 4al5ean! There is nowhere I an turn There is no way to go on11111 [He throws hiself into the swollen river.] TURNING [The woen of 7aris ourn their lost loved ones.] WOMAN ONE Did you see them :
9oing o to ight& WOMAN TWO 6hildren o the barriade "ho didn't last the night&
WOMAN THREE Did you see them Lying where they died& Someone used to radle them -nd kiss them when they ried1 WOMAN FOUR Did you see them lying side by side& WOMAN FIVE "ho will wake them& WOMAN SI o one ever will1 WOMAN TWO o one ever told them That a summer day an kill1 WOMAN ONE They were shoolboys ever held a gun111 3ighting or a new world That would rise up like the sun1 WOMAN THREE "here's that new world now the ighting's done& WOMAN FOUR othing hanges1 WOMAN FIVE othing ever will1 WOMAN SI @very year another brat, another mouth to ill1 WOMAN TWO Same old story1 "hat's the use o tears& WOMAN FIVE "hat's the use o praying i there's nobody who hears& 9
ALL Turning, turning, turning, turning, turning Through the years1 Turning, turning, turning through the years /inutes into hours and the hours into years1 othing hanges1 othing ever an :ound about the roundabout and bak where you began1 :ound and round and bak where you began! EMPTY CHAIRS AT EMPTY TABLES [)arius, recovering fro his wounds, iagines hes back at the "3 caf9.] MARIUS There's a grie that an't be spoken There's a pain goes on and on @mpty hairs at empty tables ow my riends are dead and gone #ere they talked o revolution #ere it was they lit the lame #ere they sang about tomorrow -nd tomorrow never ame1 3rom the table in the orner They ould see a world reborn -nd they rose with voies ringing I an hear them now! The very words that they had sung %eame their last ommunion $n the lowly barriade1 -t dawn1 $h my riends, my riends orgive me1 [The ghosts of those who died on the barricade a!!ear.] That I live and you are gone There's a grie that an't be spoken There's a pain goes on and on ;hantom aes at the window ;hantom shadows on the loor @mpty hairs at empty tables "here my riends will meet no more1 [The ghosts fade away.]
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$h my riends, my riends, don't ask me "hat your sariie was or @mpty hairs at empty tables "here my riends will sing no more111
EVERY !AY [3osette arrives to hel! )arius in his recovery.] COSETTE @very day You walk with stronger step You walk with longer step The worst is over MARIUS @very day I wonder every day "ho was it brought me here 3rom the barriade& COSETTE Don't think about it, /arius "ith all the years ahead o us! I will never go away -nd we will be together every day1 @very day, "e'll remember that night -nd the vow that we made7 - heart ull o love - night ull o you The words are old %ut always true $h, 9od, or shame You did not even know my name1 MARIUS Dear /ad'moiselle I was lost in your spell1 [$al%ean enters, unnoticed.] COSETTE - heart ull o love o ear no regret /y name is /arius ;ontmery
MARIUS 6osette, 6osette! COSETTE I saw you waiting and I knew1 <
MARIUS "aiting or you -t your eet COSETTE -t your all BOTH -nd it wasn't a dream ot a dream -ter all
VALJEAN (+,&'>&.,(/+# She was never mine to keep She is youthul She is ree1 Love is the garden o the young Let it be Let it be - heart ull o love This I give you $n this day1
[They notice $al%ean.] VALJEAN’S CONFESSION MARIUS /'sieur, this is a day I an never orget Is gratitude enough 3or giving me 6osette& Your home shall be with us -nd not a day shall pass %ut we will prove our love To you, whom we shall all - ather to us both - ather to us all1 [3osette leaves.] VALJEAN ot another word my son, There's something now that must be done You've spoken rom the heart -nd I must do the same There is a story, sir $ slavery and shame That you alone must know1 I never told 6osette She had enough o tears She's never known the truth $ the story you must hear $ years ago1 There lived a man named Jean 4al5ean #e stole some bread to save his sister's son 3or nineteen winters served his time In sweat he washed away his rime =
Years ago #e broke parole and lived a lie apart #ow ould he tell 6osette and break her heart& It's or 6osette that this must be aed I he is aught she is disgraed The time is ome to 5ourney on -nd rom this day he must be gone "ho am I& "ho am I& MARIUS You're Jean 4al5ean! "hat an I do That will turn you rom this& /onsieur, you annot leave "hatever I tell my beloved 6osette She will never believe! VALJEAN /ake her believe I have gone on a 5ourney - long way away Tell her my heart was too ull or arewells It is better this way ;romise me, /'sieur, 6osette will never know1 MARIUS I give my word1 VALJEAN "hat I have spoken, why I must go1 MARIUS 3or the sake o 6osette, it must be so1 THE WE!!ING CHORALE D BEGGARS AT THE FEAST [)arius and 3osette lead a wedding !rocession.] CHORUS :ing out the bells upon this day o days! /ay all the angels o the Lord above In 5ubilation sing their songs o praise! -nd rown this blessed time with peae and love1 [The !rocession becoes a dancing celebration. walt: is !layed.] MAJOR !OMO The %aron and %aroness de Thenard wish to pay their respets to the groom! >
THENAR!IER I orget where we met "as it not at the 6hateau Laarge "here the duke did that puke Down the Duhess's de.oll.etage& MARIUS o, 8%aron de Thenard' The irles I move in are humbler by ar1 9o away, Thenardier! Do you think I don't know who you are& M& THENAR!IER #e's not ooled, told you so1 Show /'sieur what you've ome here to show1 Tell the boy what you know! [!!lause fro the dancers as the walt: finishes.] MARIUS "hen I look at you, I remember @ponine She was more than you deserved, who gave her birth %ut now she is with 9od and happier, I hope Than here on earth! [The walt: starts u! again.] THENAR!IER So it goes, heaven knows Lie has dealt me some terrible blows1 M& THENAR!IER You've got ash and a heart You ould give us a bit o a start "e an prove, plain as ink Your bride's ather is not what you think1 THENAR!IER There's a tale I ould tell M& THENAR!IER Inormation we're willing to sell1 THENAR!IER There's a man that he slew I saw the orpse lear as I'm seeing you! "hat I tell you is true! M& THENAR!IER ;ity to disturb you at a east like this %ut ive hundred rans surely wouldn't ome amiss1 ?
MARIUS In 9od's name say what you have to say1 THENAR!IER %ut irst you pay! "hat I saw, lear as light Jean 4al5ean in the sewers that night #ad this orpse on his bak #anging there like a great bloody sak1 I was there, never ear @ven ound me this ine souvenir! [Thenardier shows )arius a ring.] MARIUS I know this! This was mine! This is surely some heavenly sign! THENAR!IER $ne more thing, mark this well It was the night the barriades ell1 MARIUS Then it's true, then I'm right Jean 4al5ean was my saviour that night! -s or you, take this too! [)arius hits Thenardier and then throws oney at hi.] 9od orgive the things that we do1 6ome my love, ome 6osette This day's blessings are not over yet! [)arius and 3osette leave.] THENAR!IER -in't it a laugh& -in't it a treat& #ob.nobbin' here among the elite& #ere omes a prine There goes a Jew1 This one's a Aueer but what an you do& ;aris at my eet, ;aris in the dust -nd here I'm breaking bread "ith the upper rust! %eggar at the east! /aster o the dane! Lie is easy pikings I you grab your hane1 @verywhere you go Law.abiding olk @
Doing what is deent but they're mostly broke! Singing to the Lord on Sundays ;raying or the gits he'll send1 THENAR!IER M& THENAR!IER %ut we're the ones who take it "e're the ones who make it in the end! "ath the buggers dane "ath 'em till they drop
FANTINE /'sieur, I bless your name /'sieur, lay down your burden
You raised my hild in love -nd you will be with 9od1
VALJEAN (+,&'>&.,(+?# I am ready, 3antine -t the end o my days She's the best o my lie1
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[)arius and 3osette rush into the roo, but they do not see Fantine.] COSETTE ;apa, papa, I do not understand! -re you alright& They said you'd gone away1 VALJEAN 6osette, my hild, am I orgiven now& Thank 9od, thank 9od, I've lived to see this day1 MARIUS It's you who must orgive a thoughtless ool It's you who must orgive a thankless man It's thanks to you that I am living -nd again I lay down my lie at your eet1 6osette, your ather is a saint1 "hen they wounded me #e took me rom the barriade 6arried like a babe -nd brought me home to you! VALJEAN ,/ C/&,, ow you are here -gain beside me ow I an die in peae 3or now my lie is blessed COSETTE You will live, ;apa, you're going to live It's too soon, too soon to say goodbye1 VALJEAN Yes, 6osette, orbid me now to die I'll obey I will try $n this page I write my last onession :ead it well when I at last am sleeping1 It's a story $ those who always loved you Your mother gave her lie or you Then gave you to my keeping1 [The other s!irits a!!ear.] FANTINE 6ome with me
"here hains will never bind you -ll your grie -t last, at last behind you1 Lord in #eaven Look down on him in mery1 VALJEAN 3orgive me all my trespasses -nd take me to your glory1 [He dies.] FANTINE )+ EPONINE Take my hand -nd lead me to salvation Take my love 3or love is everlasting1 VALJEAN= FANTINE EPONINE -nd remember The truth that one was spoken To love another person Is to see the ae o 9od! CHORUS Do you hear the people sing& Lost in the valley o the night It is the musi o a people who are limbing to the light 3or the wrethed o the earth There is a lame that never dies @ven the darkest nights will end and the sun will rise They will live again in reedom in the garden o the lord They will walk behind the ploughshare They will put away the sword The hain will be broken and all men will have their reward! "ill you 5oin in our rusade& "ho will be strong and stand with me& Somewhere beyond the barriade is there a world you long to see& Do you hear the people sing& Say, do you hear the distant drums& It is the uture that they bring when tomorrow omes! "ill you 5oin in our rusade& "ho will be strong and stand with me& Somewhere beyond the barriade is there a world you long to see& Do you hear the people sing& Say, do you hear the distant drums& It is the uture that they bring when tomorrow omes!