Les_Miserables_音乐剧《悲惨世界》歌词

Les_Miserables_音乐剧《悲惨世界》歌词 Les Miserables Act I Act II Prologue - Work Song At the Barricade (Upon these Stones) Valjean Arrested, Valjean Forgiven On My Own What Have I Done? (Valjean's Soliloquy) Building the Barricade At The End of the Day Javert's Arrival I Dreamed a Dream Little People Lovely Ladies A Little Fall of Rain (Eponine's Death) Fantine's Arrest Night of Anguish The Runaway Cart First Attack Who Am I? (The Trial) Drink With Me Come To Me (Fantine's Death) Bring Him Home The Confrontation Dawn of Anguish Castle on a Cloud The Second Attack Master of the House Death of Gavroche The Bargain The Final Battle The Thénardier Waltz of Treachery Dog Eats Dog Look Down The Sewers The Robbery Javert's Suicide Javert's Intervention (Another Brawl) Turning Stars Empty Chairs at Empty Tables Eponine's Errand Every Day (Marius and Cosette) The ABC Cafe - Red and Black Valjean's Confession Do You Hear the People Sing? The Wedding Chorale Rue Plumet - In My Life Beggars at the Feast A Heart Full of Love Epilogue The Attack on Rue Plumet Finale One Day More! - 1 - I broke a window pane. Prologue - Work Song My sister's child was close to death And we were starving. Javert: 1815, Toulon, France. The chain gang, overseen by You will starve again brutal warders, works in the sun. Unless you learn the meaning of the law. Chorus (Prisoners): Valjean: Look down, look down I know the meaning of those 19 years Don't look 'em in the eye A slave of the law Look down, look down, Javert: You're here until you die Five years for what you did 1st Convict: The rest because you tried to run The sun is strong Yes, 24601. Valjean: It's hot as hell below My name is Jean Valjean Chorus: Look down, look down, Javert: There's twenty years to go And I am Javert Do not forget my name! 2nd Convict: Do not forget me, I've done no wrong! 24601. Sweet Jesus, hear my prayer! Chorus: Chorus: Look down, look down, Look down, look down You'll always be a slave Sweet Jesus doesn't care Look down, look down 3rd Convict: I know she'll wait, You're standing in your grave. I know that she'll be true! Valjean: Chorus: Freedom is mine. The earth is still. I feel the wind. I breathe again. Look down, look down, And the sky clears They've all forgotten you 4th Convict: The world is waking. When I get free ya won't see me Drink from the pool. How clean the taste. Here for dust! Never forget the years, the waste. Chorus: Nor forgive them Look down, look down For what they've done. Don't look 'em in the eye They are the guilty - everyone. 5th Convict: The day begins... How long, oh Lord And now lets see Before you let me die? What this new world Chorus: Will do for me! Look down, look down, You'll always be a slave He finds work on a farm. Look down, look down, You're standing in your grave Farmer: Javert: You'll have to go Now bring me prisoner 24601 I'll pay you off for the day Your time is up Collect your bits and pieces there And your parole's begun And be on your way. You know what that means. Valjean: Valjean: You have given me half Yes, it means I'm free. What the other men get! Javert: This handful of tin No! Wouldn't buy my sweat! It means you get Laborer: Your yellow ticket-of-leave You broke the law You are a thief It's there for people to see Valjean: Why should you get the same I stole a loaf of bread. As honest men like me? Javert: Valjean: You robbed a house. Now every door is closed to me Valjean: Another jail. Another key. Another chain - 2 - For when I come to any town back by two constables. They check my papers And they find the mark of Cain In their eyes I see their fear Valjean Arrested, Valjean Forgiven `We do not want you here.' He comes to an inn. Constables Innkeeper's Wife: 1. Tell his reverence your story My rooms are full 2. Let us see if he's impressed And I've no supper to spare 1. You were lodging here last night I'd like to help a stranger 2. You were the honest Bishop's guest. All we want is to be fair And then, out of Christian goodness Valjean: When he learned about your plight I will pay in advance 1. You maintain he made a present of this I can sleep in a barn silver. You see how dark it is Bishop: I'm not some kind of dog! That is right. Innkeeper: But my friend you left so early You leave my house Surely something slipped your mind Or feel the weight of my rod We're law-abiding people here The bishop gives Valjean two silver candlesticks. Thanks be to God. They throw him out of the inn. You forgot I gave these also Valjean: Would you leave the best behind? And now I know how freedom feels So, Messieurs, you may release him The jailer always at your heels For this man has spoken true It is the law! I commend you for your duty This piece of paper in my hand And God's blessing go with you. That makes me cursed throughout the land It is the law! Constables leave. The bishop addresses Valjean. Like a cur I walk the street, But remember this, my brother The dirt beneath their feet. See in this some higher plan He sits down despairingly outside a house You must use this precious silver from which emerges the Bishop of Digne. To become an honest man Bishop: By the witness of the martyrs Come in, Sir, for you are weary, By the Passion and the Blood And the night is cold out there. God has raised you out of darkness Though our lives are very humble I have bought your soul for God! What we have, we have to share. There is wine here to revive you. There is bread to make you strong, What Have I Done? (Valjean's Soliloquy) There's a bed to rest till morning, Rest from pain, and rest from wrong. Valjean: Valjean: What have I done? He let me eat my fill Sweet Jesus, what have I done? I had the lion's share Become a thief in the night, The silver in my hand Become a dog on the run Cost twice what I had earned And have I fallen so far, In all those nineteen years - And is the hour so late That lifetime of despair That nothing remains but the cry of my hate, And yet he trusted me. The cries in the dark that nobody hears, The old fool trusted me - Here where I stand at the turning of the years? He'd done his bit of good I played the grateful serf If there's another way to go And thanked him like I should I missed it twenty long years ago But when the house was still, My life was a war that could never be won I got up in the night. They gave me a number and murdered Valjean Took the silver When they chained me and left me for dead Took my flight! Just for stealing a mouthful of bread Taking the silver cup, he runs off, but is brought Yet why did I allow that man - 3 - To touch my soul and teach me love? Like the waves crash on the sand Like a storm that'll break any second He treated me like any other He gave me his trust There's a hunger in the land He called me brother There's a reckoning still to be reckoned and There's gonna be hell to pay My life he claims for God above At the end of the day! Can such things be? For I had come to hate the world This world that always hated me The foreman and workers, including Fantine, emerge from the factory. Take an eye for an eye! Turn your heart into stone! Foreman: This is all I have lived for! At the end of the day you get nothing for This is all I have known! nothing Sitting flat on your butt doesn't buy any bread One from him and I'd be back Worker 1: Beneath the lash, upon the rack Here are children back at home Instead he offers me my freedom Workers 1&2: I feel my shame inside me like a knife And the children have got to be fed He told me that I have a soul, Worker 2: How does he know? And you're lucky to be in a job What spirit comes to move my life? Woman: Is there another way to go? And in a bed! Workers: I am reaching, but I fall And we're counting our blessings! And the night is closing in Woman 2: And I stare into the void Have you seen how the foreman is fuming To the whirlpool of my sin today? I'll escape now from the world With his terrible breath and his wandering From the world of Jean Valjean hands? Jean Valjean is nothing now Woman 3: Another story must begin! It's because little Fantine won't give him his way He tears up his yellow ticket-of-leave. Woman 1: Take a look at his trousers, you'll see where he stands! At The End of The Day Woman 4: And the boss, he never knows That the foreman is always in heat 1823, Montreuil-sur-Mer. Outside the factory Woman 3: owned by the Mayor, Monsieur Madeleine (Jean If Fantine doesn't look out, watch how she Valjean in disguise). goes She'll be out on the street! The Poor: Workers: At the end of the day you're another day older At the end of the day it's another day over And that's all you can say for the life of the With enough in your pocket to last for a week poor Pay the landlord, pay the shop It's a struggle, it's a war Keep on grafting as long as you're able And there's nothing that anyone's giving Keep on grafting till you drop One more day standing about, what is it for? Or it's back to the crumbs off the table One day less to be living. You've got to pay your way At the end of the day! At the end of the day you're another day colder Girl: (Grabbing a letter from Fantine) And the shirt on your back doesn't keep out And what have we here, little innocent sister? the chill Come on Fantine, let's have all the news! And the righteous hurry past They don't hear the little ones crying Reading the letter. And the winter is coming on fast, ready to kill One day nearer to dying! Ooh... "dear Fantine you must send us more money... At the end of the day there's another day Your child needs a doctor... dawning There's no time to lose..." And the sun in the morning is waiting to rise - 4 - Fantine: Who keeps herself so pure and clean You'd be the cause I had no doubt Give that letter to me It is none of your business Of any trouble hereabout With a husband at home You play a virgin in the light But need no urgin' in the night. And a bit on the side! Girl: Is there anyone here She's been laughing at you Who can swear before God She has nothing to fear? While she's having her men She has nothing to hide? Women: She'll be nothing but trouble again and again They fight over the letter. Valjean (M. Madeleine) Woman: rushes on to break up the squabble. You must sack her today Workers: Valjean: Sack the girl today! Will someone tear these two apart? Foreman: What is this fighting all about? Right my girl. On your way! This is a factory, not a circus! Now come on ladies, settle down I run a business of repute I Dreamed a Dream I am the Mayor of this town (To the foreman) Fantine is left alone, unemployed and destitute. I look to you to sort this out And be as patient as you can- Fantine: He goes back into the factory. There was a time when men were kind Foreman: When their voices were soft Now someone say how this began! And their words inviting Girl: There was a time when love was blind At the end of the day And the world was a song She's the one who began it And the song was exciting There's a kid that she's hiding There was a time In some little town Then it all went wrong There's a man she has to pay You can guess how she picks up the extra I dreamed a dream in time gone by You can bet she's earning her keep When hope was high Sleeping around And life worth living And the boss wouldn't like it! I dreamed that love would never die Fantine: I dreamed that God would be forgiving Yes it's true there's a child Then I was young and unafraid And the child is my daughter And dreams were made and used and wasted And her father abandoned us, There was no ransom to be paid Leaving us flat No song unsung, no wine untasted Now she lives with an innkeeper man And his wife But the tigers come at night And I pay for the child With their voices soft as thunder What's the matter with that? As they tear your hope apart Women: And they turn your dream to shame At the end of the day She'll be nothing but trouble He slept a summer by my side And there's trouble for all He filled my days with endless wonder When there's trouble for one! He took my childhood in his stride While we're earning our daily bread But he was gone when autumn came She's the one with her hands in the butter You must send the slut away And still I dream he'll come to me Or we're all gonna end in the gutter That we will live the years together And it's us who'll have to pay But there are dreams that cannot be At the end of the day! And there are storms we cannot weather Foreman: I might have known the bitch could bite I had a dream my life would be I might have known the cat had claws So different from this hell I'm living I might have guessed your little secret So different now from what it seemed Ah, yes, the virtuous Fantine Now life has killed the dream I dreamed. - 5 - Lovely Ladies What pretty hair! What pretty locks you got there What luck you got. It's worth a centime, my The docks. Sailors, whores and their customers, dear pimps, etc. Fantine wanders in. I'll take the lot Fantine: Sailor 1: Don't touch me! Leave me alone! I smell women Crone: Smell 'em in the air Let's make a price. Think I'll drop my anchor I'll give you all of ten francs, In that harbor over there Just think of that! Sailor 2: Fantine: Lovely ladies It pays a debt Smell 'em through the smoke Crone: Seven days at sea Just think of that Can make you hungry for a poke Fantine: Sailor 3: What can I do? It pays a debt. Even stokers need a little stoke! Ten francs may save my poor Cosette! Women: Sailor 3: Lovely ladies Lovely lady! Waiting for a bite Fastest on the street Waiting for the customers Wasn't there three minutes Who only come at night She was back up on her feet Lovely ladies Sailor 1: Ready for the call Lovely lady! Standing up or lying down What yer waiting for? Or any way at all Doesn't take a lot of savvy Bargain prices up against the wall Just to be a whore Old Woman: Come on, lady Come here, my dear What's a lady for? Fantine re-emerges, her Let's see this trinket you wear long hair cut short. This bagatelle... Pimp: Fantine: Give me the dirt, who's that bit over there? Madame, I'll sell it to you... Whore 1: Old Woman: A bit of skirt. She's the one sold her hair. I'll give you four Whore 2: Fantine: She's got a kid. Sends her all that she can That wouldn't pay for the chain! Pimp: Old Woman: I might have known I'll give you five. You're far too eager to sell. It's There is always some man up to you. Lovely lady, come along and join us! Fantine: Lovely lady! It's all I have Whore 1: Old Woman: Come on dearie, why all the fuss? That's not my fault You're no grander than the rest of us Fantine: Life has dropped you at the bottom of the heap Please make it ten Join your sisters Old Woman: Whore 2: No more than five Make money in your sleep! My dear, we all must stay alive! Fantine goes off with one of the sailors. Women: Whore 1: Lovely ladies That's right dearie, let him have the lot Waiting in the dark Whore 3: Ready for a thick one That's right dearie, show him what you've got! Or a quick one in the park Women: Whore 1: Old men, young men, take 'em as they come Long time short time Harbor rats and alley cats and every kind of Any time, my dear scum Cost a little extra if you want to take all year! Poor men, rich men, leaders of the land All: See them with their trousers off they're never Quick and cheap is underneath the pier! quite as grand Crone: - 6 - All it takes is money in your hand! Javert enters, accompanied by constables. Lovely ladies Javert: Going for a song Tell me quickly what's the story Who saw what and why and where Got a lot of callers Let him give a full description But they never stay for long Let him answer to Javert! Fantine: Come on, Captain, In this nest of whores and vipers You can wear your shoes Let one speak who saw it all Don't it make a change Who laid hands on this good man here? To have a girl who can't refuse What's the substance of this brawl? Bamatabois: Easy money Javert, would you believe it Lying on a bed I was crossing from the park Just as well they never see When this prostitute attacked me The hate that's in your head You can see she left her mark Don't they know they're making love Javert: To one already dead! She will answer for her actions When you make a full report You may rest assured, M'sieur, Fantine's Arrest That she will answer to the court. Fantine: There's a child who sorely needs me Bamatabois is a well dressed gentleman. Please M'sieur, she's but that high Holy God, is there no mercy? Bamatabois If I go to jail she'll die! Here's something new. I think I'll give it a try. Javert: Come closer you! I like to see what I buy... I have heard such protestations The usual price, for just a slice of your pie Every day for twenty years Fantine: Let's have no more explanations I don't want you. No, no, m'sieur, let me go. Save your breath and save your tears Bamatabois: `Honest work, just reward, Is this a trick? I won't pay more! That's the way to please the Lord. Fantine: No, not at al`. Fantine gives a last despairing cry as she is Bamatabois: arrested by the constables. You've got some nerve, you little whore Valjean emerges from the crowd. You've got some gall. It's the same with a tart as it is with a grocer Valjean: The customer sees what he gets in advance A moment of your time, Javert It's not for the whore to say `yes sir' or `no sir' I do believe this woman's tale It's not for the harlot to pick and to choose Javert: Or lead me to a dance! But M'sieur Mayor! He hits her with his stick, she claws at his face, Valjean: drawing blood. You've done your duty, let her be Fantine: She needs a doctor, not a jail. I'll kill you, you bastard, Javert: Try any of that! But M'sieur Mayor! Even a whore who has gone to the bad Fantine: Won't be had by a rat! Can this be? Bamatabois Valjean: By Christ you'll pay for what you've done Where will she end - This rat will make you bleed, you'll see! This child without a friend? I guarantee, I'll make you suffer I've seen your face before For this disturbance of the peace Show me some way to help you For this insult to life and property! How have you come to grief Fantine: In a place such as this? I beg you, don't report me sir Fantine: I'll do whatever you may want M'sieur, don't mock me now, I pray Bamatabois It's hard enough I've lost my pride Make your excuse to the police! You let your foreman send me away - 7 - Yes, you were there, and turned aside You come from God, you are a saint. Javert takes Valjean aside. I never did no wrong Valjean: Is it true, what I have done? Javert: Can this be true? Fantine: I don't believe what I see! My daughter's close to dying... A man your age Valjean: To an innocent soul? To be as strong as you are! Fantine: A mem'ry stirs... If there's a God above You make me think of a man Valjean: From years ago Had I only known then... A man who broke his parole Fantine: He disappeared He'd let me die instead Forgive me, Sir, Valjean: I would not dare! In His name my task has just begun Valjean: I will see it done! Say what you must Javert: Don't leave it there... But M'sieur Mayor! Javert: Valjean: I have only known one other I will see it done! Who can do what you have done Javert: He's a convict from the chain gang But M'sieur Mayor! He's been ten years on the run Valjean: But he couldn't run forever I will see it done! We have found his hideaway Voices: And he's just been re-arrested Look out! It's a runaway cart! And he comes to court today. Well, of course he now denies it You'd expect that of a `con' The Runaway Cart But he couldn't run forever - No, not even Jean Valjean! Valjean: The crowd parts to reveal that the cart has crashed, You say this man denies it all trapping Monsieur Fauchelevant. And gives no sign of understanding or repentance? Voices You say this man is going to trial Look at that! And that's he's sure to be returned Look at that! To serve his sentence? It's Monsieur Fauchelevant! Come to that, can you be sure, Don't approach! Don't go near! That I am not your man? At the risk of your life! Javert: He is caught by the wheel! I have known the thief for ages Oh, the pitiful man! Tracked him down through thick and thin Stay away, Turn away! And to make the matter certain There is nothing to do! There's the brand upon his skin There is nothing to do! He will bend, he will break Valjean: This time there is no mistake. Is there anyone here Javert leaves. Valjean is alone. Who will rescue the man? Who will help me to shoulder The weight of the cart? Who Am I? (The Trial) Voices Don't go near him, Mr. Mayor The load is heavy as hell Valjean: The old man's a goner for sure He thinks that man is me It'll kill you as well. He knew him at a glance! That stranger he has found Valjean attempts to lift the cart... but fails. He tries This man could be my chance! again. They manage to pull Fauchelevant clear. Why should I save his hide? Fauchelevant: Why should I right this wrong M'sieur le Mayor, I have no words When I have come so far - 8 - And struggled for so long? Hurry near, another day is dying Don't you hear, the winter wind is crying? If I speak, I am condemned. There's a darkness which comes without a If I stay silent, I am damned! warning But I will sing you lullabies and wake you in the morning. I am the master of hundreds of workers. They all look to me. How can I abandon them? Valjean enters. How would they live If I am not free? Valjean: Oh, Fantine, our time is running out If I speak, I am condemned. But Fantine, I swear this on my life If I stay silent, I am damned! Fantine: Look, M'sieur, where all the children play Who am I? Valjean: Can I condemn this man to slavery Be at peace, be at peace evermore. Pretend I do not feel his agony Fantine: This innocent who bears my face My Cosette... Who goes to judgement in my place Valjean: Who am I? Shall live in my protection Can I conceal myself for evermore? Fantine: Pretend I'm not the man I was before? Take her now And must my name until I die Valjean: Be no more than an alibi? Your child will want for nothing Must I lie? Fantine: How can I ever face my fellow men? Good M'sieur, you come from God in Heaven. How can I ever face myself again? Valjean: My soul belongs to God, I know And none shall ever harm Cosette I made that bargain long ago As long as I am living. He gave me hope when hope was gone Fantine: He gave me strength to journey on Take my hand. The night grows ever colder. He appears in front of the court Valjean: Then I will keep you warm. Who am I? Who am I? Fantine: I am Jean Valjean! Take my child. I give her to your keeping. He unbuttons his shirt to reveal the number Valjean: tattooed to his chest. Take shelter from the storm Fantine: And so Javert, you see it's true For God's sake, please stay till I am sleeping That man bears no more guilt than you! And tell Cosette I love her Who am I? And I'll see her when I wake... 24601! She dies with a smile. Javert arrives. Come To Me (Fantine's Death) The Confrontation Fantine is lying in a hospital bed, deliriously dreaming of her daughter Cosette. Javert: Valjean, at last, Fantine: We see each other plain Cosette, it's turned so cold `M'sieur le Mayor,' Cosette, it's past your bedtime You'll wear a different chain! You've played the day away Valjean: And soon it will be night. Before you say another word, Javert Before you chain me up like a slave again Come to me, Cosette, the light is fading Listen to me! There is something I must do. Don't you see the evening star appearing? This woman leaves behind a suffering child. Come to me, and rest against my shoulder There is none but me who can intercede, How fast the minutes fly away and every In Mercy's name, three days are all I need. minute colder. Then I'll return, I pledge my word. Then I'll return... - 9 - Javert: Young Cosette is working as a drudge in the Thé ardier's inn at Montfermeil. You must think me mad! I've hunted you across the years A man like you can never change Young Cosette There is a castle on a cloud, A man such as you. I like to go there in my sleep, Aren't any floors for me to sweep, Valjean (in counterpoint): Javert (in counterpoint): Not in my castle on a cloud. Believe of me what Men like me can you will never change There is a room that's full of toys, There is a duty that Men like you can There are a hundred boys and girls, I'm sworn to do never change Nobody shouts or talks too loud, You know nothing No, 24601 Not in my castle on a cloud. of my life There is a lady all in white, All I did was steal My duty's to the law Holds me and sings a lullaby, some bread - you have no rights You know nothing Come with me She's nice to see and she's soft to touch, of the world 24601 She says "Cosette, I love you very much." You would sooner Now the wheel has I know a place where no one's lost, see me dead turned around I know a place where no one cries, But not before I see Jean Valjean is this justice done nothing now Crying at all is not allowed, I am warning you Dare you talk to me Not in my castle on a cloud. Javert of crime Oh help! I think I hear them now, I'm a stronger man And the price you by far had to pay and I'm nowhere near finished sweeping and There is power in Every man is born scrubbing and polishing the floor. me yet in sin Oh, it's her! It's Madame! My race is not yet Every man must Mme. Thérun choose his way ardier: I am warning you You know nothing Now look who's here Javert of Javert The little madam herself! There is nothing I I was born inside a Pretending once again she's been `so awfully won't dare jail good,' If I have to kill you I was born with Better not let me catch you slacking here scum like you Better not catch my eye! I'll do what must be I am from the gutter Ten rotten francs your mother sends me done! too! What is that going to buy? Now take that pail Valjean breaks a chair and threatens Javert with My little `Mademoiselle' the broken piece. Turns to Fantine. And go and draw some water from the well! We should never have taken you in the first Valjean (to Fantine): place And this I swear to you tonight How stupid the things that we do! Javert: (to Valjean): Like mother like daughter, the scum of the There is no place for you to hide street. Valjean: Eponine, come my dear, Eponine, let me see Your child will live within my care you Javert: You look very well in that new little blue hat Wherever you may hide away There's some little girls who know how to Valjean: behave And I will raise her to the light. And they know what to wear Valjean & Javert: And I'm saying thank heaven for that. I swear to you, I will be there! Still there Cosette? Your tears will do you no good! They fight, Javert is knocked out. Valjean escapes. I told you fetch some water from the well in the wood! Young Cosette Please do not send me out alone Castle on a Cloud Not in the darkness on my own! Mme. Théardier: - 10 - Enough of that, or I'll forget to be nice! Drinkers Landlord over here! You heard me ask for something, And I never ask twice! Where's the bloody man? One more for the road! Théardier, one more slug o' gin. Young Eponine pushes Cosette out. Théardier says Girl: good night to his daughter as the inn fills up for the Just one more, or my old man is gonnevening. a do me in. Master of the House Théardier greets a new customer. Théardier: Drinkers: Welcome, M'sieur 3. Come on you old pest Sit yourself down 2. Fetch a bottle of your best And meet the best 1. What's the nectar of the day? Innkeeper in town As for the rest, Théardier enters with a flask of wine. All of 'em crooks Rooking their guests Théardier: And cooking the books. Here, try this lot Seldom do you see Guaranteed to hit the spot Honest men like me Or I'm not Théardier A gent of good intent Drinkers Who's content to be Gissa glass a rum Landlord, over here! Master of the house Théardier: Doling out the charm Right away, you scum (to himself) Ready with a handshake Right away, m'sieur (to customer) And an open palm Diners Tells a saucy tale 1. God this place has gone to hell Makes a little stir 2. So you tell me every year Customers appreciate a bon-viveur Drinkers Glad to do a friend a favor ardier 6. Mine host ThéDoesn't cost me to be nice He was there so they say, But nothing gets you nothing At the field of Waterloo Everything has got a little price! 7. Got there, it's true When the fight was all through Master of the house 1. But he knew just what to do Keeper of the zoo Crawling through the mud Ready to relieve 'em So I've heard it said Of a sou or two Picking through the pockets Watering the wine Of the English dead Making up the weight 8. He made a tidy score Pickin' up their knick-knacks From the spoils of war When they can't see straight Théardier: Everybody loves a landlord My band of soaks Everybody's bosom friend My den of dissolutes I do whatever pleases My dirty jokes, my always pissed as newts. Jesus! Won't I bleed 'em in the end! My sons of whores Théardier & Drinkers: Spent their lives in my inn Master of the house Homing pigeons homing in Quick to catch yer eye They fly through my doors Never wants a passerby And their money's as good as yours To pass him by Diner 2: Servant to the poor Ain't got a clue Butler to the great What he put in this stew Comforter, philosopher, Must have scraped it off the street And lifelong mate! Diner 1: Everybody's boon companion God what a wine! Everybody's chaperone Chateau Neuf de Turpentine Théardier: Must have pressed it with his feet - 11 - But lock up your valises Have you seen what's happened since? `Master of the house?' Jesus! Won't I skin you to the bone! To another new customer Isn't worth me spit! Enter M'sieur `Comforter, philosopher' - and lifelong shit! Lay down your load Cunning little brain Unlace your boots Regular Voltaire And rest from the road Taking his bag Thinks he's quite a lover This weighs a ton But there's not much there Travel's a curse What a cruel trick of nature But here we strive Landed me with such a louse To lighten your purse God knows how I've lasted Here the goose is cooked Living with this bastard in the house! Here the fat is fried Théardier & Drinkers: And nothing's overlooked Master of the house! Till I'm satisfied... Mme. Théardier: Master and a half! Food beyond compare Théardier & Drinkers: Food beyond belief Comforter, philosopher Mix it in a mincer Mme. Théardier: And pretend it's beef Ah, don't make me laugh! Kidney of a horse Théardier & Drinkers: Liver of a cat Servant to the poor. Butler to the great. Filling up the sausages Mme. Théardier: With this and that Hypocrite and toady and inebriate! Théardier & Drinkers: Residents are more than welcome Everybody bless the landlord! Bridal suite is occupied Everybody bless his spouse! Reasonable charges Théardier: Plus some little extras on the side! Everybody raise a glass Mme. Théardier: Charge 'em for the lice Raise it up the master's arse. Extra for the mice All: Two percent for looking in the mirror twice Everybody raise a glass to the master of the Here a little slice house! There a little cut Three percent for sleeping with the window shut The Bargain When it comes to fixing prices There are a lot of tricks he knows Valjean and Young Cosette, hand-in-hand, How it all increases approach the now empty inn, singing. They arrive All those bits and pieces at the inn. Jesus! It's amazing how it grows! Théardier & Chorus: Valjean: Master of the house I found her wandering in the wood Quick to catch yer eye This little child, I found her trembling in the Never wants a passerby shadows To pass him by And I am here to help Cosette Servant to the poor And I will settle any debt you may think proper Butler to the great I will pay what I must pay Comforter, philosopher, To take Cosette away. And lifelong mate! There is a duty I must heed, Everybody's boon companion There is a promise I have made Gives 'em everything he's got For I was blind to one in need Théardier: I did not see what stood before me Dirty bunch of geezers Now her mother is with God Jesus! What a sorry little lot! Fantine's suffering is over Mme. Théardier: And I speak here with her voice I used to dream And I stand here in her place That I would meet a prince And from this day and evermore But God Almighty, Mme. Théardier: - 12 - Let me have your coat, M'sieur Cosette: Valjean: Will there be children and castles to see? Cosette shall live in my protection Valjean: Théardier: Yes, Cosette, yes, it's true. You are very welcome here There's a castle just waiting for you. Valjean: Valjean & Cosette: I will not forsake my vow La la la la la... Théardier: Take a glass Mme. Théardier: Look Down Take a chair Valjean: 1832. The teeming, squalid streets of Paris. Cosette shall have a father now! Beggars, urchins, prostitutes, students, etc. Beggars: The Théardier Waltz of Treachery Look down and see the beggars at your feet Look down and show some mercy if you can Théardier: Look down and see The sweepings of the street What to do? What to say? Look down, look down, Shall you carry our treasure away? What a gem! What a pearl! Upon your fellow man! Beyond rubies is our little girl! Gavroche How can we speak of debt? How do you do? My name's Gavroche. These are my people. Here's my patch. Let's not haggle for darling Cosette! Not much to look at, nothing posh Dear Fantine, gone to rest... Nothing that you'd call up to scratch. Have we done for her child what is best? This is my school, my high society Here in the slums of Saint Michele Shared our bread. Shared each bone. We live on crumbs of humble piety Treated her like she's one of our own! Tough on the teeth, but what the hell! Like our own, Monsieur! Valjean: Think you're poor? Your feelings do you credit, sir Think you're free? Follow me! Follow me! And I will ease the parting blow Beggars: He pays them. Let us not talk of bargains or bones or greed Look down and show some mercy if you can Now, may I say, we are agreed? Look down, look down, upon your fellow man Mme. Théardier: An old beggar woman finds a young prostitute That would quite fit the bill occupying her pitch. If she hadn't so often been ill Little dear, cost us dear Medicines are expensive, M'sieur Old Beggar Woman: What you think yer at? Not that we begrudged a sou Hanging round me pitch? It's no more than we Christians must do! If you're new around here, girl M. and Mme. Théardier: One thing more, one small doubt You've got a lot to learn! There are treacherous people about Young Prostitute: No offense. Please reflect. Listen you old bat... Your intentions may not be correct? Crazy bloody witch... Valjean: 'Least I give me customers No more words. Here's your price. Some pleasure in return! Fifteen hundred for your sacrifice. Old Beggar Woman: Come, Cosette, say goodbye I know what you give! Let us seek out some friendlier sky. Give 'em all the pox! Thank you both for Cosette Spread around your poison It won't take you too long to forget. Till they end up in a box. Pimp: Leave the poor old cow, Valjean and Cosette leave the inn. Move it, Madeleine. Come, Cosette, come, my dear She used to be no better From now on I will always be here Till the clap got to her brain. Where I go, you will be. Beggars: - 13 - When's it gonna end? Here they come slumming once again Our Eponine would kiss their feet When we gonna live? Something's gotta happen now or She never had a scrap of brain Something's gonna give Marius: Hey, Eponine, what's up today? It'll come, it'll come, it'll come I haven't seen you much about. It'll come, it'll come, it'll come Eponine: Enjolras: Where the leaders of the land? Here you can always catch me in. Where are the swells who run this show? Marius: Marius: Mind the police don't catch you out! Only one man - and that's Lamarque Eponine: Speaks for these people here below. Here, wotcher do with all them books? Beggars: I could have been a student too! See our children fed Don't judge a girl on how she looks. Help us in our shame I know a lot of things, I do! Something for a crust of bread Marius In Holy Jesus' name Poor Eponine, the things you know Urchin: You wouldn't find in books like these. In the Lord's Holy name. Eponine: Beggars: I like the way you grow your hair In his name, in his name, in his name... Marius: Marius: I like the way you always tease Lamarque is ill and fading fast! Eponine: Won't last the week out, so they say. Little he knows! Enjolras: Little he sees! With all the anger in the land Valjean arrives with Cosette, now grown up. How long before the judgement day? Before we cut the fat ones down to size? Mme. Théardier: Before the barricades arise? Here's the old boy. Stay on the job and watch Gavroche: out for the law. Watch out for old Théardier Eponine: (to Marius) All of his family's on the make Stay out of this. Once ran a hash-house down the way Marius: Bit of a swine and no mistake But Eponine... He's got a gang Eponine: The bleeding layabout You'll be in trouble here Even his daughter does her share It's not your concern That's Eponine, she knows her way about You'll be in the clear Only a kid, but hard to scare She pushes Marius away. Do we care? Not a cuss Marius: Long live us. Who is that man? Long live us! Eponine: Beggars: Leave me alone! Look down and show some mercy if you can Marius: Look down, look down upon your fellow man! Why is he here? Hey, Eponine! He tries to follow her, and bumps into Cosette. I didn't see you there, forgive me. The Robbery Théardier: Please m'sieur, come this way Here's a child that ain't eaten today. Théardier assembling his gang. Save a life, spare a sou God rewards all the good that you do. Théardier: Wait a bit. Know that face. Everyone here, you know your place Ain't the world a remarkable place? Brujon, Babet, Claquesous Men like me don't forget You, Montparnasse, watch for the law You're the bastard who borrowed Cosette! With Eponine take care Théardier grabs Valjean and rips open his shirt, You turn on the tears revealing the number on his chest. No mistakes, my dears Mme. Théardier: Valjean: These bloody students on our street - 14 - What is this? Are you mad? I will run him off his feet! No, Monsieur, you don't know what you do! Théardier: Everyone about your business! You know me, you know me. Clear this garbage off the street! I'm a con, just like you. Eponine: It's the police! Disappear! Stars Run for it! It's Javert! Javert: Javert's Intervention There, out in the darkness A fugitive running Javert and his constables break up the fight. Fallen from God Valjean picks himself up and looks for Cosette, Fallen from grace who is with Marius. God be my witness I never shall yield Javert: Till we come face to face Another brawl in the square Till we come face to face Another stink in the air! Was there a witness to this? (Marius steps He knows his way in the dark forward) Mine is the way of the Lord Well, let him speak to Javert! And those who follow the path of the righteous M'sieur, the streets are not safe, Shall have their reward But let these vermin beware And if they fall We'll see that justice is done! As Lucifer fell The flame Look upon this fine collection The sword! Crawled from underneath a stone This swarm of worms and maggots Stars Could have picked you to the bone! In your multitudes I know this man over here Scarce to be counted I know his name and his trade Filling the darkness And on your witness, M'sieur, With order and light We'll see him suitably paid. You are the sentinels Valjean and Cosette have disappeared. Silent and sure But where's the gentleman gone? Keeping watch in the night And why on earth did he run? Keeping watch in the night Marius runs off to find Cosette You know your place in the sky Théardier: You hold your course and your aim You will have a job to catch him And each in your season He's the one you should arrest Returns and returns No more bourgeois when you scratch him And is always the same Than that brand upon his chest! And if you fall as Lucifer fell The constables search for Valjean. You fall in flame! Javert: And so it has been and so it is written Could it be he's some old jailbird On the doorway to paradise That the tide now washes in That those who falter and those who fall Heard my name and started running Must pay the price! Had the brand upon his skin And the girl who stood beside him Lord let me find him When I turned they both had gone That I may see him Could he be the man I've hunted? Safe behind bars Could it be he's Jean Valjean? I will never rest Théardier: Till then In the absence of a victim, This I swear Dear Inspector, may I go? This I swear by the stars! And remember when you've nicked him, It was me who told you so! Gavroche: Javert: That inspector thinks he's something Let the old man keep on running But it's me who runs this town! - 15 - And my theater never closes At rue de Bac they're straining at the leash! Courfeyrac: And the curtain's never down Trust Gavroche, have no fear Students, workers, everyone Don't you worry, auntie dear, There's a river on the run Like the flowing of the tide You can always find me here! Paris coming to our side! Enjolras: Eponine's Errand The time is near So near it's stirring the blood in their veins! And yet beware Eponine is alone in the square. Don't let the wine go to your brains! For the army we fight is a dangerous foe Eponine: With the men and the arms that we never can Cosette! Now I remember! match Cosette! How can it be? It is easy to sit here and swat 'em like flies We were children together But the national guard will be harder to catch. Look what's become of me... We need a sign Marius returns. To rally the people To call them to arms Good God! Ooh, what a rumpus! To bring them in line! Marius: Marius enters. That girl, who can she be? Marius, you're late. Eponine: Joly: That cop! He'd like to jump us What's wrong today? But he ain't smart, not he. You look as if you've seen a ghost. Marius: Grantaire Eponine, who was that girl? Some wine and say what's going on! Eponine: Marius: Some bourgeois two-a-penny thing! A ghost you say... a ghost maybe Marius: She was just like a ghost to me Eponine, find her for me! One minute there, and she was gone! Eponine: Grantaire: What will you give me? I am agog! Marius: I am aghast! Anything! Is Marius in love at last? Eponine: I've never heard him `ooh' and `aah' Got you all excited now, You talk of battles to be won But God knows what you see in her And here he comes like Don Ju-an Ain't you all delighted now It's better than an o-per-a! She refuses Marius' money. Enjolras: No, I don't want your money sir... It is time for us all Marius: To decide who we are Eponine! Do this for me... Do we fight for the right Discover where she lives To a night at the opera now? But careful how you go Have you asked of yourselves Don't let your father know What's the price you might pay? 'Ponine! I'm lost until she's found! Is it simply a game Eponine: For rich young boys to play? You see, I told you so! The color of the world There's lots of things I know Is changing day by day... Marius leaves. 'Ponine... she knows her way around! Red - the blood of angry men! Black - the dark of ages past! Red - a world about to dawn! The ABC Caf?- Red and Black Black - the night that ends at last! Marius: The ABC Caf? where the students, led by Enjolras, Had you been there tonight meet to discuss their revolutionary plans. You might know how it feels To be struck to the bone Combeferre: In a moment of breathless delight! At Notre Dame the sections are prepared! Had you been there tonight Feuilly: - 16 - You might also have known General Lamarque is dead! Enjolras: How the world may be changed In just one burst of light! Lamarque is dead. And what was right seems wrong Lamarque! His death is the hour of fate. The people's man. And what was wrong seems right! His death is the sign we await! Grantaire: On his funeral day they will honor his name. Red... Marius: It's a rallying cry that will reach every ear! I feel my soul on fire! In the death of Lamarque we will kindle the Grantaire: flame Black... They will see that the day of salvation is near! Marius: The time is near! My world if she's not there! Let us welcome it gladly with courage and All: cheer Red... Let us take to the streets with no doubt in our Marius: hearts The color of desire! But a jubilant shout All: They will come one and all Black... They will come when we call! Marius: The color of despair! Enjolras: Do You Hear The People Sing? Marius, you're no longer a child I do not doubt you mean it well Enjolras: But now there is a higher call. Do you hear the people sing? Who cares about your lonely soul? Singing a song of angry men? We strive toward a larger goal It is the music of a people Our little lives don't count at all! Who will not be slaves again! All: When the beating of your heart Red - the blood of angry men! Echoes the beating of the drums Black - the dark of ages past! There is a life about to start Red - a world about to dawn! When tomorrow comes! Black - the night that ends at last! Combeferre: Enjolras: Will you join in our crusade? Well, Courfeyrac, do we have all the guns? Who will be strong and stand with me? Feuilly, Combeferre, our time is running short. Beyond the barricade Grantaire, put the bottle down! Is there a world you long to see? Do we have the guns we need? Courfeyrac: Grantaire Then join in the fight Give me brandy on my breath That will give you the right to be free! And I'll breathe them all to death! All: Courfeyrac: Do you hear the people sing? In St. Antoine they're with us to a man! Singing a song of angry men? Combeferre: It is the music of a people In Notre Dame they're tearing up the stones! Who will not be slaves again! Feuilly: When the beating of your heart Twenty rifles good as new! Echoes the beating of the drums Gavroche rushes in shouting. There is a life about to start Gavroche: When tomorrow comes! Listen! Feuilly: Joly: Will you give all you can give Twenty rounds for every man! So that our banner may advance Gavroche: Some will fall and some will live Listen to me! Will you stand up and take your chance? Jean Prouvaire: The blood of the martyrs Double that in Port St. Cloud! Will water the meadows of France! Gavroche: All: Listen everybody! Do you hear the people sing? Lesgles: Singing a song of angry men? Seven guns in St. Martin! It is the music of a people Gavroche: Who will not be slaves again! - 17 - When the beating of your heart In my life Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start I have all that I want When tomorrow comes! You are loving and gentle and good But Papa, dear Papa, In your eyes I am just like a child Who is lost in a wood Rue Plumet - In My Life Valjean: No more words Cosette stands in her garden on Rue Plumet. No more words. It's a time that is dead There are words Cosette: That are better unheard, How strange Better unsaid. This feeling that my life's begun at last Cosette: This change, In my life Can people really fall in love so fast? I'm no longer a child and I yearn What's the matter with you, Cosette? For the truth that you know Have you been too much on your own? Of the years... years ago! So many things unclear Valjean: So many things unknown. You will learn Truth is given by God In my life To us all in our time There are so many questions and answers In our turn That somehow seem wrong In my life Valjean leaves the garden. Marius and Eponine There are times when I catch in the silence arrive outside. The sigh of a faraway song And it sings Marius Of a world that I long to see In my life Out of reach She has burst like the music of angels Just a whisper away The light of the sun Waiting for me. And my life seems to stop As if something is over Does he know I'm alive? And something has scarcely begun. Do I know if he's real? Eponine Does he see what I saw? You're the friend who has brought me here Does he feel what I feel? Thanks to you I am one with the gods And Heaven is near! In my life And I soar through a world that is new that is I'm no longer alone free Now the love in my life Eponine: (to herself) Is so near Every word that he says is a dagger in me! Find me now, find me here! In my life Valjean: There's been no one like him anywhere Dear Cosette, Anywhere, where he is... You're such a lonely child If he asked... I'd be his How pensive, how sad you seem to me Marius & Eponine: Believe me, were it within my power In my life I'd fill each passing hour There is someone who touches my life How quiet it must be, I can see Marius: With only me for company. Waiting near Cosette: Eponine: There's so little I know Waiting here That I'm longing to know Of the child that I was In a time long ago... There's so little you say Of the life you have known Why you keep to yourself A Heart Full of Love Why we're always alone So dark! So dark and deep... The secrets that you keep! Marius goes into the garden, leaving Eponine - 18 - outside the gate. His heart full of love He will never feel this way... Marius Marius and Cosette move away as Montparnasse A heart full of love enters furtively A heart full of song I'm doing everything all wrong The Attack on Rue Plumet Oh God, for shame I do not even know your name Dear Mad'moiselle Eponine: Won't you say? 'Parnasse, what are you doing Will you tell? So far out of our patch? Cosette: Montparnasse: A heart full of love This house, we're going to do it No fear, no regret Rich man, plenty of scratch Marius: You remember he's the one My name is Marius Pontmercy Who got away the other day Cosette: Got a number on his chest And mine's Cosette Perhaps a fortune put away! Marius: Eponine: Cosette, I don't know what to say Oh Lord, somebody help me! Cosette: Dear God, what'll I do? Then make no sound He'll think this is an ambush Marius: He'll think I'm in it too! I am lost Cosette: What'll I do, what'll I say? I am found! I've got to warn them here Marius: I've got to find a way. A heart full of light Théardier arrives with the rest of his gang. Cosette: A night bright as day Théardier: Marius: This is his lair And you must never go away I've seen the old fox around Cosette, Cosette He keeps himself to himself Cosette: He's staying close to the ground This is a chain we'll never break I smell profit here! Marius: Do I dream? Ten years ago Cosette: He came and paid for Cosette I'm awake! I let her go for a song Marius: It's time we settled the debt A heart full of love This'll cost him dear Cosette: Brujon A heart full of you What do I care Marius: Who you should rob? A single look and then I knew Gimme me my share Cosette: Finish the job! I knew it too Théardier: Marius: You shut your mouth From today Give me your hand Cosette: Brujon (catching sight of Eponine); Every day What have we here? Cosette & Marius: Théardier: (not recognizing her): For it isn't a dream Who is this hussy? Not a dream after all. Babet Eponine: (Interjecting) It's your brat Eponine He was never mine to lose Don't you know your own kid Why regret what cannot be? Why's she hanging about you? These are words he'll never say Théardier: Not to me... Eponine, get on home Not to me... You're not needed in this Not to me... We're enough here without you - 19 - Eponine: Three men in shadow moving fast Valjean: I know this house I tell you there's nothing here for you This is a warning to us all Just the old man and the girl These are the shadows of the past Must be Javert! They live ordinary lives He's found my cover at last! Théardier: I've got to get Cosette away Don't interfere You've got some gall Before they return! Take care, young miss, You've got a lot to say! We must get away from shadows Brujon: They will never let us be She's going soft Tomorrow to Calais... Claquesous: And then a ship across the sea! Happens to all Hurry, Cosette, prepare to leave and say no more, Montparnasse: Tomorrow we'll away! Go home, 'Ponine, Go home, you're in the way Hurry, Cosette, it's time to close another door Eponine: And live another day! I'm gonna scream, I'm gonna warn them here. Théardier: One Day More One little scream and you'll regret it for a year. Claquesous What a palaver Valjean: What an absolute treat One day more! To watch a cat and its father Another day, another destiny. Pick a bone in the street This never-ending road to Calvary; Brujon: These men who seem to know my crime Not a sound out of you! Will surely come a second time. Eponine: One day more! Well I told you I'd do it, told you I'd do it... Marius: She screams. I did not live until today. Théardier: How can I live when we are parted? You wait my girl, you'll rue this night Valjean: I'll make you scream, you'll scream all right One day more. Leave her to me, don't wait around Marius & Cosette: Make for the sewers, go underground! Tomorrow you'll be worlds away, The gang scatters. Marius and Cosette run And yet with you, my world has started! back into the garden and he hurriedly Eponine: introduces Eponine before she takes off. One more day all on my own. Marius: Marius & Cosette: It was your cry sent them away Will we ever meet again? Once more 'Ponine saving the day Eponine: Dearest Cosette - my friend 'Ponine One more day with him not caring. Brought me to you, showed me the way! Marius & Cosette: Someone is near I was born to be with you. Let's not be seen Eponine: Somebody's here! What a life I might have known. Marius leaves quickly as Valjean enters. Marius & Cosette: And I swear I will be true! Valjean: Eponine: My God, Cosette! But he never saw me there! I heard a cry in the dark Enjolras: I heard the shout of angry voices in the street. One more day before the storm! Cosette: Marius: That was my cry you heard, Papa, Do I follow where she goes? I was afraid of what they'd do. Enjolras: They ran away when they heard my cry. At the barricades of freedom. Valjean: Marius: Cosette, my child, what will become of you? Shall I join my brothers there? Cosette: Enjolras: Three men I saw beyond the wall When our ranks begin to form - 20 - Marius: started Do I stay; and do I dare? Enjolras: Valjean: Will you take your place with me? Tomorrow we'll be far away, All: Tomorrow is the judgement day The time is now, the day is here All: Valjean: Tomorrow we'll discover One day more! What our God in Heaven has in store! Javert: One more dawn One more day to revolution, One more day We will nip it in the bud! One day more! I will join these little schoolboys, The curtain falls. They will wet themselves with blood! Valjean: Upon These Stones - Building the Barricade One day more! M. & Mme. Théardier: Enjolras is addressing the revolutionaries. Watch 'em run amuck, Catch 'em as they fall, Enjolras: Never know your luck Here upon these stones When there's a free for all, We will build our barricade Here a little `dip' In the heart of the city There a little `touch' We claim as our own! Most of them are goners Each man to his duty So they won't miss much! And don't be afraid. Students (2 Groups): Wait! I will need a report 1: One day to a new beginning On the strength of the foe. 2: Raise the flag of freedom high! Javert (disguised as a rebel): 1: Every man will be a king I can find out the truth 2: Every man will be a king I know their ways 1: There's a new world for the winning Fought their wars 2: There's a new world to be won All: Served my time Do you hear the people sing? In the days Marius: Of my youth. My place is here, I fight with you! Prouvaire: Valjean: Now the people will fight One day more! Grantaire: Marius & Cosette: Javert: (overlapping): And so they might I did not live until I will join these people's Dogs will bark heros Fleas will bite. today. I will follow where they go Lesgles: Eponine: They will do what is right! One more day I will learn their little secrets, Marius spots Eponine, who is dressed as a all on my own! I will know the things boy. M & C: Marius: How can I live they know. Hey, little boy, what's this I see? when we are parted? God, Eponine, the things you do! Valjean: Eponine: One day more! I know this is no place for me, Still, I would rather be with you! Marius & Cosette: Javert: Théardiers: Marius: Tomorrow you'll be One more day to We Get out before the trouble starts. will nip it in the bud Get out, 'Ponine, you might get shot! worlds away revolution Watch 'em run Eponine: amok I've got you worried now, I have Eponine: What a life I We'll be ready forThat shows you like me quite a lot! Catch 'em as they fall Marius: might have known! these SchoolboysThere is a way that you can help Never know your luck You are the answer to a prayer! M & C: And yet with When there's a Please take this letter to Cosette you my world has free-for-all! And pray to God that she's still there! - 21 - Eponine: In the rain the pavement shines like silver Little you know! Little you care! All the lights are misty in the river She walks to the Rue Plumet, where she meets In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight And all I see is him and me for ever and forever Valjean. Eponine: And I know it's only in my mind I have a letter M'sieur It's addressed to your daughter, Cosette That I'm talking to myself and not to him It's from a boy at the barricade, Sir, And although I know that he is blind In the Rue de Villette. Still I say, there's a way for us Valjean: Give me that letter here, my boy. I love him Eponine: But when the night is over He said to give it to Cosette He is gone, the river's just a river Valjean: Without him the world around me changes You have my word that my daughter will know The trees are bare and everywhere What this letter contains. The streets are full of strangers He gives her a coin. Tell the young man she will read it tomorrow I love him And here's for your pains But every day I'm learning Go careful now, stay out of sight All my life I've only been pretending There's danger in the streets tonight. Without me his world will go on turning He opens the letter... and reads it. A world that's full of happiness "Dearest Cosette, you have entered my soul That I have never known! And soon you will be gone. Can it be only a day since we met I love him And the world was reborn? I love him If I should fall in the battle to come I love him Let this be my goodbye... But only on my own. Now that I know you love me as well It is harder to die... I pray that god will bring me home Building the Barricade To be with you. Pray for your Marius. He prays for you!" The barricade is now complete. Valjean goes in, leaving Eponine alone. Students: Now we pledge ourselves to hold this barricade On My Own Marius: Let them come in their legions Eponine: And they will be met And now I'm all alone again Enjolras: Nowhere to turn, no one to go to Have faith in yourselves Without a home, without a friend, And don't be afraid Without a face to say hello to. And now the night is near Grantaire: Now I can make believe he's here. Let's give 'em a screwing That they'll never forget! Sometimes I walk alone at night Combeferre: When everybody else is sleeping This is where it begins! I think of him and then I'm happy Courfeyrac: With the company I'm keeping And if I should die in the fight to be free The city goes to bed Where the fighting is hardest And I can live inside my head. There will I be Feuilly: On my own Let them come if they dare Pretending he's beside me We'll be there! All alone, I walk with him till morning Without him I feel his arms around me Javert's Arrival And when I lose my way I close my eyes And he has found me Army Officer (offstage, with a loud-bailer): - 22 - You at the barricade listen to this! So you'd better run for cover When the pup grows up! No one is coming to help you to fight You're on your own Grantaire: You have no friends Bravo, little Gavroche, you're the top of the class! Give up your guns - or die! Prouvaire: Enjolras: So what are we going to do Damn their warnings, damn their lies They will see the people rise! With this snake in the grass? Students: Enjolras: Damn their warnings, damn their lies Tie this man and take him They will see the people rise! To the tavern in there Javert climbs over the barricade. The people will decide your fate Inspector Javert! Javert: Courfeyrac: Listen my friends Take the bastard now and shoot him! I have done as I said Feuilly: I have been to their lines Let us watch the devil dance! I have counted each man Lesgles: I will tell what I can You'd have done the same, Inspector, If we'd let you have your chance! Better be warned Javert: They have armies to spare Shoot me now or shoot me later And the danger is real Every schoolboy to his sport We will need all our cunning Death to each and every traitor To bring them to heel. I renounce your people's court! Enjolras: Combeferre: Have faith Though we may not all survive here If you know what their movements are There are things that never die We'll spoil their game Grantaire: There are ways that a people can fight What's the difference, die a schoolboy, We shall overcome their power Die a policeman, die a spy? Javert: Enjolras: I have overheard their plans Take this man, bring him through There will be no attack tonight There is work we have to do! They intend to starve us out Javert is bundled away as the first shots ring Before they start a proper fight out. Concentrate their force Hit us from the right. Eponine enters, wounded. Joly: Little People There's a boy climbing the barricade! Marius: Good God! What are you doing? Gavroche: 'Ponine, have you no fear? Liar! Have you seen my beloved? Good evening, dear inspector Why have you come back here? Lovely evening, my dear. Eponine: I know this man, my friends Took the letter like you said His name is Inspector Javert I met her father at the door So don't believe a word he says He said he would give it 'Cause none of it's true She collapses in his arms This only goes to show Don't think I can stand any more. What little people can do! Marius: Eponine, what's wrong? I feel... And little people know There's something wet upon your hair When little people fight There is blood on his hands We may look easy pickings Eponine, you're hurt But we've got some bite You need some help! So never kick a dog Oh God, it's everywhere.... Because he's just a pup We'll fight like twenty armies And we won't give up - 23 - A Little Fall of Rain the ground. Enjolras: Eponine: She is the first to fall Don't you fret, M'sieur Marius The first of us to fall upon this barricade I don't feel any pain Marius: A little fall of rain Her name was Eponine Can hardly hurt me now Her life was cold and dark, yet she was You're here, that's all I need to know unafraid. And you will keep me safe Combeferre: And you will keep me close We fight here in her name And rain will make the flowers grow. Prouvaire: Marius: She will not die in vain. But you will live, 'Ponine - dear God above, Lesgles: If I could heal your wounds with words of love. She will not be betrayed. Eponine: They carry her body off. Just hold me now, and let it be. Shelter me, comfort me Marius: Night of Anguish You would live a hundred years If I could show you how I won't desert you now... Valjean arrives, dressed as a soldier. Eponine: The rain can't hurt me now Joly: Here comes a man in uniform This rain will wash away what's past What brings you to this place? And you will keep me safe And you will keep me close Valjean: I'll sleep in your embrace at last. I come here as a volunteer Joly: Approach and show your face. The rain that brings you here Sentry: Is Heaven-blessed! The skies begin to clear You wear an army uniform. And I'm at rest Valjean: A breath away from where you are That's why they let me through. I've come home from so far Joly: Eponine: Marius: (in counterpoint) You've got some years behind you sir. So don't you fret, M'sieur Marius Valjean: Hush-a-bye, dear Eponine, There's much that I can do. I don't feel any pain You won't feel any pain Joly: A little fall of rainYou see that prisoner over there? A little fall of rain Can hardly hurt me now Can hardly hurt Grantaire: you now A volunteer like you! Combeferre: A spy who calls himself Javert! Marius: Grantaire: I'm here Eponine: He's going to get it too... That's all I need to know Sentry: They're getting ready to attack! Eponine: Marius: (in counterpoint) And you will keep me safe I will stay with you And you will keep me close Till you are The First Attack sleeping Enjolras gives Valjean a gun. Eponine: And rain... Enjolras: Marius: Take this and use it well! And rain... But if you shoot us in the back, Eponine: You'll never live to tell. Will make the flowers... Student 1: Marius: Platoon of sappers advancing toward the Will make the flowers... grow... barricade! She dies. Marius kisses her, then lays her on Student 2: - 24 - Troops behind them, fifty men or more! Clear out of here. Javert: Enjolras: Fire! Once a thief, forever a thief Gunfire is heard. What you want you always steal! You would trade your life for mine. Yes, Valjean, you want a deal! Feuilly: Shoot me now for all I care! Sniper! Valjean shoots a sniper who is aiming at Enjolras. If you let me go, beware, You'll still answer to Javert! Lesgles: Valjean: See how they run away! You are wrong, and always have been wrong. Grantaire: I'm a man, no worse than any man. By God we've won the day! You are free, and there are no conditions, Enjolras: No bargains or petitions. They will be back again, There's nothing that I blame you for. Make an attack again. You've done your duty, nothing more. (To Valjean.) If I come out of this alive, you'll find me For your presence of mind At number fifty-five Rue Plumet For the deed you have done No doubt our paths will cross again. I will thank you M'sieur When our battle is won. Valjean fires his gun into the air, Javert leaves Valjean: quickly. Muted applause from the students who Give me no thanks M'sieur think Javert has been shot. There is something you can do. Enjolras: Enjolras: If it is in my power. Courfeyrac, you take the watch Valjean: They won't attack until it's light Give me the spy Javert Everybody stay awake Let me take care of him! We must be ready for the fight Javert: For the final fight The law is inside out Let no one sleep tonight! The world is upside down Enjolras: Do what you have to do, Drink With Me (The Night) The man belongs to you. The defenders settle down for the night with wine The enemy may be regrouping. Hold yourself and a song. in readiness. Come my friends, back to your positions. Enjolras: The night is falling fast. Marius, rest. Valjean: We meet again. Feuilly: Javert: Drink with me to days gone by You've hungered for this all your life; Sing with me the songs we knew Take your revenge! Prouvaire: How right you should kill with a knife! Here's to pretty girls who went to our heads. Joly: Here's to witty girls who went to our beds. Valjean cuts the ropes which bind Javert. All: Here's to them and here's to you! Valjean: Grantaire: You talk too much, Drink with me to days gone by Your life is safe in my hands. Can it be you fear to die? Javert: Will the world remember you Don't understand When you fall? Valjean: Could it be your death Get out of here. Means nothing at all? Javert: Is your life just one more lie? Valjean, take care! All: I'm warning you... Drink with me to days gone by Valjean: To the life that used to be - 25 - Women: Dawn of Anguish At the shrine of friendship, never say die Men: Dawn breaks. Let the wine of friendship never run dry All: Enjolras: Here's to you and here's to me The people have not stirred Marius: We are abandoned by those who still live in Do I care if I should die fear. Now she goes across the sea? The people have not heard. Life without Cosette Yet we will not abandon those who cannot Means nothing at all. hear. Would you weep, Cosette, Let us not waste lives Should Marius fall? Let all the women and fathers of children Will you weep, Cosette, Go from here. For me? Feuilly: Marius settles down to sleep. Drink with me to days gone by Sing with me the songs we knew All: Bring Him Home At the shrine of friendship Raise your glass high Valjean is standing over Marius at the barricade. Let the wine of friendship Never run dry Valjean: If I die, I die with you! God on high Hear my prayer In my need You have always been there The Second Attack He is young The battle recommences. He's afraid Let him rest Enjolras: Heaven blessed. How do we stand, Feuilly? Make your report. Bring him home Feuilly: Bring him home We've guns enough, but ammunition's short Bring him home. Marius: Let me go into the streets He's like the son I might have known There are bodies all around If God had granted me a son. Ammunition to be had The summers die Lots of bullets to be found! One by one Enjolras: How soon they fly I won't let you go, it's too much of a chance! On and on Marius: And I am old The same is true for any man here! And will be gone. Valjean: Let me go. He's no more than a boy. Bring him peace I am old, I have nothing to fear. Bring him joy Gavroche: He is young You need somebody quicker and I volunteer! He is only a boy Gavroche climbs the barricade. You can take Lesgles: You can give Come back Gavroche, don't you dare! Let him be Joly: Let him live Someone pull him down at once! If I die, let me die Gavroche: Let him live Look at me, I'm almost there! Bring him home Bring him home Bring him home. The Death of Gavroche - 26 - (Gunshot.) Add it to the pile Add it to the stock Gavroche: Little people know, when Here among the sewer rats Little people fight, we A breath away from Hell You get accustomed to the smell. (Gunshot. Gavroche is wounded.) May look easy pickings Well someone's got to clean 'em up, my friends But we've got some bite! (He is hit again.) Bodies on the highway So never kick a dog Law and order upside down Because he's just a pup Someone's got to collect their odds and ends We'll fight like twenty armies As a service to the town! And we won't give up Valjean arrives, carrying Marius, and collapses. Th So you'd better run for cover éardier robs Marius. When the pup grows.... Here's a tasty ring He dies. Pretty little thing Wouldn't want to waste it That would really be a crime The Final Battle Thank you sir, I'm in your debt Here's another toy Take it off the boy Army Officer (with loud hailer): His heart's no longer going You at the barricade listen to this And he's lived his little time The people of Paris sleep in their beds But his watch is ticking yet! You have no chance No chance at all Well, someone's got to clean them up, my Why throw your lives away? friends Enjolras: Before the little harvest Let us die facing our foes Disappears into the mud Make them bleed while we can Someone's got to collect their odds and ends Combeferre: When the gutters run with blood. Make 'em pay through the nose Courfeyrac: It's a world where the dog eats the dog Make 'em pay for every man! Where they kill for bones in the street Enjolras: And God in His Heaven Let others rise He don't interfere To take our place 'Cause he's dead as the stiffs at my feet Until the earth is free! I raise my eyes to see the heavens And only the moon looks down Increasingly heavy gunfire. Marius is shot. The harvest moon shines down! Enjolras is killed at the summit of the barricade. He turns over Valjean's body, recognizes him, and All on the barricade are killed, except Marius, who leaves. Eventually, Valjean picks up Marius again is wounded and unconscious, and Valjean. Valjean and walks through the sewers. As they emerge, discovers that Marius is still alive and carries him they meet Javert. down into the sewers to escape. Javert climbs over the barricade looking for The Sewers Valjean's body. Not finding it, he realizes that Valjean must be in the sewers, so he goes off to where he must emerge. Valjean: It's you, Javert! I knew you wouldn't wait too long Dog Eats Dog The faithful servant at his post once more! This man's done no wrong, And he needs a doctor's care. Théardier is picking through the corpses in the Javert: sewers. I warned you I would not give in I won't be swayed Théardier: Valjean: Here's a hint of gold Another hour yet Stuck into a tooth And then I'm yours Pardon me M'sieur And all our debts are paid. You won't be needing it no more. Javert: Shouldn't be too hard to sell. - 27 - The man of mercy comes again Is he from heaven or from hell? And does he know And talks of justice Valjean: That granting me my life today Come, time is running short This man has killed me even so? Look down, Javert I am reaching, but I fall He's standing in his grave And the stars are black and cold Give way, Javert There is a life to save. As I stare into the void Javert: (overlapping): Of a world that cannot hold Take him Valjean, I'll escape now from the world Before I change my mind From the world of Jean Valjean. I will be waiting There is nowhere I can turn 24601. There is no way to go on.... Valjean carries Marius off. He throws himself into the swollen river. Javert's Suicide Turning Javert walks the deserted streets until he comes to Women: a bridge over the river Seine. Did you see them Going off to fight? Javert: Children of the barricade Who is this man? Who didn't last the night? What sort of devil is he Did you see them To have me caught in a trap Lying where they died? And choose to let me go free? Someone used to cradle them It was his hour at last And kiss them when they cried. To put a seal on my fate Did you see them lying side by side? Wipe out the past Who will wake them? And wash me clean off the slate! No one ever will. All it would take No one ever told them Was a flick of his knife. That a summer day can kill. Vengeance was his They were schoolboys And he gave me back my life! Never held a gun... Fighting for a new world Damned if I'll live in the debt of a thief! That would rise up like the sun. Damned if I'll yield at the end of the chase. Where's that new world now the fighting's I am the Law and the Law is not mocked done? I'll spit his pity right back in his face Nothing changes. There is nothing on earth that we share Nothing ever will. It is either Valjean or Javert! Every year another brat, another mouth to fill. Same old story. What's the use of tears? How can I now allow this man What's the use of praying if there's nobody To hold dominion over me? who hears? This desperate man whom I have hunted All Women: He gave me my life. He gave me freedom. Turning, turning, turning, turning, turning I should have perished by his hand Through the years. It was his right. Turning, turning, turning through the years It was my right to die as well Minutes into hours and the hours into years. Instead I live... but live in hell. Nothing changes. Nothing ever can. Round and round the roundabout and back And my thoughts fly apart where you began. Can this man be believed? Round and round and back where you began! Shall his sins be forgiven? Shall his crimes be reprieved? Empty Chairs at Empty Tables And must I now begin to doubt, Marius, recovering from his wounds, imagines he Who never doubted all these years? is back at the ABC cafe. My heart is stone and still it trembles The world I have known is lost in shadow. Marius: - 28 - There's a grief that can't be spoken. And the vow that we made: There's a pain goes on and on. Empty chairs at empty tables A heart full of love Now my friends are dead and gone. A night full of you The words are old But always true. Here they talked of revolution. Oh, God, for shame Here it was they lit the flame. Here they sang about `tomorrow' You did not even know my name! And tomorrow never came. Marius: Dear Mad'moiselle From the table in the corner I was lost in your spell. They could see a world reborn Valjean enters, unnoticed. And they rose with voices ringing I can hear them now! Cosette: The very words that they had sung A heart full of love Became their last communion No fear no regret On the lonely barricade at dawn. `My name is Marius Pontmercy' Marius: Oh my friends, my friends forgive me Cosette, Cosette! The ghosts of those who died on the barricade Cosette: appear. I saw you waiting and I knew. That I live and you are gone. Marius: There's a grief that can't be spoken. Waiting for you There's a pain goes on and on. At your feet Cosette: Phantom faces at the window. At your call Phantom shadows on the floor. Both: Empty chairs at empty tables And it wasn't a dream Where my friends will meet no more.Not a dream after all Valjean: (interjecting, to himself) The ghosts fade away. She was never mine to keep. Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me She is youthful, she is free. Love is the garden of the young What your sacrifice was for Let it be... let it be... Empty chairs at empty tables A heart full of love Where my friends will sing no more. This I give you on this day. They notice Valjean. Every Day Marius: Time has passed. Suggest Marius convalescing, M'sieur, this is a day encouraged by Cosette who takes his arm as he I can never forget. walks with firmer step. Is gratitude enough For giving me Cosette? Cosette: Your home shall be with us Every day And not a day shall pass You walk with stronger step But we will prove our love You walk with longer step- To you, whom we shall call `The worst is over.' A father to us both Marius: A father to us all. Every day Cosette leaves. I wonder every day Who was it brought me here From the barricade? Valjean's Confession Cosette: Don't think about it, Marius! Valjean: With all the years ahead of us! Not another word my son, I will never go away There's something now that must be done. And we will be together Every day. You've spoken from the heart Every day, And I must do the same There is a story, sir, We'll remember that night - 29 - Of slavery and shame respects to the groom! Théardier: That you alone must know. I forget where we met I never told Cosette Was it not at the Chateau Lafarge Where the Duke did that puke She had enough of tears Down the Duchess's de-coll-etage? She's never known the truth- Marius: The story you must hear Of years ago. No, `Baron de Théard' The circles I move in are humbler by far. There lived a man whose hame was Jean Go away, Théardier! Valjean Do you think I don't know who you are? He stole some bread to save his sister's son. Mme. Théardier: For nineteen winters served his time He's not fooled. Told you so. In sweat he washed away his crime. Show M'sieur what you've come here to show. Years ago Tell the boy what you know! He broke parole and lived a life apart Applause from the dancers as the waltz How could he tell Cosette and break her heart? finishes. It's for Cosette this must be faced Marius: If he is caught she is disgraced When I look at you, I remember Eponine. The time has come to journey on She was more than you deserved, who gave And from this day he must be gone her birth Who am I? But now she is with God and happier, I hope, Who am I? Than here on earth! Marius: The waltz starts up again. You're Jean Valjean! Théardier: What can I do So it goes, heaven knows That will turn you from this? Life has dealt me some terrible blows. Monsieur, you cannot leave. Mme. Théardier: Whatever I tell my beloved Cosette You've got cash and a heart She will never believe! You could give us a bit of a start! Valjean: We can prove, plain as ink Make her believe Your bride's father is not what you think. I have gone on a journey ardier: Thé A long way away. There's a tale I could tell Tell her my heart was too full for farewells Mme. Théardier: It is better this way. Information we're willing to sell... Promise me, M'sieur, Cosette will never Théardier: know... There's a man that he slew Marius: I saw the corpse clear as I'm seeing you! I give my word. What I tell you is true! Valjean: Mme. Théardier: ...what I have spoken, why I must go. Pity to disturb you at a feast like this Marius: But five hundred francs surely wouldn't come For the sake of Cosette, it must be so. amiss. Marius: In God's name say what you have to say. The Wedding Chorale Théardier: But first you pay! What I saw, clear as light, Marius and Cosette lead a wedding procession. Jean Valjean in the sewers that night. Had this corpse on his back Chorus: Hanging there like a bloody great sack. Ring out the bells upon this day of days! I was there, never fear. May all the angels of the Lord above Even found me this fine souvenir! In jubilation sing their songs of praise! Théardier shows Marius a ring. And crown this blessed time with peace and love. Marius: The procession becomes a dancing celebration. A I know this! This was mine! waltz is played. Surely this is some heavenly sign! Théardier: Major Domo: One thing more, mark this well The Baron and Baroness de Théard wish to It was the night the barricades fell. pay their - 30 - Marius: Valjean: Alone I wait in the shadows Then it's true, then I'm right Jean Valjean was my savior that night! I count the hours till I can sleep Marius punches Théardier and then throws money I dreamed a dream Cosette stood by It made her weep to know I die. at him. Alone at the end of the day As for you, take this too! Upon this wedding night I pray God forgive the things that we do. Come my love, come Cosette, Take these children, my Lord, to thy embrace This day's blessings are not over yet! And show them grace. Marius and Cosette leave. God on high Hear my prayer Beggars at the Feast Take me now To thy care Where You are Théardier: Let me be Ain't it a laugh? Take me now Ain't it a treat? Take me there Hob-nobbin' here Bring me home Among the elite? Bring me home. Here comes a prince Fantine's spirit appears to Valjean. There goes a Jew. This one's a queer Fantine: Valjean: (interjecting) But what can you do? M'sieur, I bless your I am ready, Paris at my feet name Fantine Paris in the dust M'sieur, lay down your At the end of my And here's me breaking bread burden days With the upper crust! You raised my child in She's the best of love my life. Beggar at the feast! And you will be with Master of the dance! god Life is easy pickings If you grab your chance. Marius and Cosette rush into the room; they do not Everywhere you go see Fantine. Law-abiding folk Doing what is decent Cosette: But they're mostly broke! Papa, Papa, I do not understand! Singing to the Lord on Sundays Are you alright? They said you'd gone away. Praying for the gifts He'll send. Valjean: M. and Mme. Théardier: Cosette, my child, am I forgiven now? But we're the ones who take it Thank God, thank God, I've lived to see this We're the ones who make it in the end! day. Watch the buggers dance Marius: Watch 'em till they drop It's you who must forgive a thoughtless fool Keep your wits about you It's you who must forgive a thankless man And you stand on top! It's thanks to you that I am living Masters of the land And again I lay down my life at your feet. Always get our share Clear away the barricades Cosette, your father is a saint. And we're still there! When they wounded me We know where the wind is blowing He took me from the barricade Money is the stuff we smell. Carried like a babe And when we're rich as Croesus And brought me home to you! Jesus! Won't we see you all in hell! Valjean: (to Cosette) Now you are here Again beside me Now I can die in peace Epilogue For now my life is blessed... Cosette: Valjean is alone in the shadows, with a bare You will live, Papa, you're going to live wooden cross for company. It's too soon, too soon to say goodbye! - 31 - Valjean: Chorus: Do you hear the people sing Yes, Cosette, forbid me now to die I'll obey, Lost in the valley of the night? I will try. It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. On this page I write my last confession. For the wretched of the earth Read it well When I at last am sleeping. There is a flame that never dies. It's the story Even the darkest night will end Of those who always loved you. And the sun will rise. Your mother gave her life for you Then gave you to my keeping. They will live again in freedom In the garden of the Lord. The other spirits, including Eponine appear. They will walk behind the plough-share, They will put away the sword. Fantine: The chain will be broken Come with me And all men will have their reward. Where chains will never bind you All your grief Will you join in our crusade? At last, at last behind you. Who will be strong and stand with me? Lord in Heaven, Somewhere beyond the barricade Look down on him in mercy. Is there a world you long to see? Valjean: Do you hear the people sing? Forgive me all my trespasses Say, do you hear the distant drums? And take me to your glory. It is the future that they bring Fantine and Eponine: When tomorrow comes! Take my hand And lead me to salvation. Will you join in our crusade? Take my love, Who will be strong and stand with me? For love is everlasting. Somewhere beyond the barricade Valjean, Fantine, and Eponine: Is there a world you long to see? And remember Do you hear the people sing? The truth that once was spoken Say, do you hear the distant drums? To love another person It is the future that they bring Is to see the face of God! When tomorrow comes... Tomorrow comes! Finale The curtain falls. - 32 -