Valjean's Soliloquy - Live

[00:16.81] What have I done?
[00:17.67] Sweet Jesus, what have I done?
[00:18.71] Become a thief in the night
[00:20.08] Become a dog on the run
[00:21.24] Have I fallen so far
[00:22.48] And is the hour so late
[00:23.92] That nothing remains but the cry of my hate?
[00:26.34] The cries in the dark that nobody hears
[00:28.92] Here where I stand at the turning of the years?
[00:33.51] If there's another way to go
[00:35.97] I missed it 20 long years ago
[00:38.16] My life was a war that could never be won
[00:40.55] They gave me a number and murdered Valjean
[00:42.72] When they chained me and left me for dead
[00:45.17] Just for stealing a mouthful of bread
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[00:58.22] Yet, why did I allow this man
[01:02.40] To touch my soul and teach me love?
[01:06.14] He treated me like any other
[01:09.92] He gave me his trust
[01:11.67] He called me brother
[01:14.40] My life he claims for God above
[01:18.60] Can such things be?
[01:21.82] For I had come to hate the world
[01:25.63] This world that always hated me!
[01:29.93] Take an eye for an eye
[01:33.20] Turn your heart into stone
[01:36.79] This is all I have lived for
[01:40.16] This is all I have known!
[01:48.56] One word from him and I'd be back
[01:51.95] Beneath the lash, upon the rack
[01:54.92] Instead, he offers me my freedom
[01:57.88] I feel my shame inside me like a knife
[02:01.52] He told me that I have a soul
[02:05.62] How does he know?
[02:08.14] What spirit comes to move my life?
[02:13.35] Is there another way to go?
[02:20.32] I am reaching, but I fall
[02:26.56] And the night is closing in
[02:31.28] As I stare into the void
[02:35.24] To the whirlpool of my sin
[02:39.56] I'll escape now from that world
[02:42.95] From the world of Jean Valjean
[02:45.59] Jean Valjean is nothing now!
[02:49.03] Another story must begin!
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