Valjean's Soliloquy - Live

[00:18.12] What have I done? Sweet Jesus, what have I done?
[00:20.38] Become a thief in the night, become a dog on the run
[00:22.91] Have I fallen so far, and is the hour so late?
[00:25.56] That nothing remains but the cry of my hate
[00:27.98] The cries in the dark that nobody hears
[00:30.69] Here where I stand, at the turning of the years
[00:35.37] If there's another way to go
[00:37.60] I missed it 20 long years ago
[00:40.13] My life was a war that could never be won
[00:42.21] They gave me a number, murdered Val Jean
[00:44.71] When they chained me and left me for dead
[00:46.88] Just for stealing a mouthful of bread
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[01:03.40] Yet, why did I allow that man
[01:07.85] To touch my soul and teach me love
[01:12.55] He treated me like any other
[01:16.65] He gave me his trust, he called me, brother
[01:21.75] My life he claims for God above
[01:26.58] Can such things be?
[01:30.62] For I had come to hate the world
[01:35.12] This world that always hated me
[01:40.03] Take an eye for an eye
[01:43.78] Turn your heart into stone
[01:47.73] This is all I have lived for
[01:51.50] This is all I have known
[02:02.72] One word from him and I'd be back
[02:06.83] Beneath the lash, upon the rack
[02:11.18] Instead, he offers me my freedom
[02:14.68] I feel my shame inside me like a knife
[02:19.35] He told me that I had a soul
[02:24.09] How does he know?
[02:27.93] What spirit comes to move my life
[02:32.37] Is there another way to go?
[02:40.16] I am reaching, but I fall
[02:45.45] And the night is closing in
[02:49.33] As I stare into the void
[02:52.75] To the whirlpool of my sin
[02:56.44] I'll escape now from the world
[02:59.60] From the world of Jean Val Jean
[03:02.76] Jean Val Jean is nothing now
[03:05.87] Another story must begin
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