Valjean's Soliloquy (Live)

What have I done? Sweet Jesus, what have I done?

Become a thief in the night, become a dog on the run

And have I fallen so far and is the hour so late

That nothing remains but the cry of my hate?

The cries in the dark that nobody hears

Here I stand at the turning of the years

If there's another way to go

I missed it 20 long years ago

My life was a war that could never be won

They gave me a number and murdered Valjean

When they chained me and left me for dead

Just for stealing a mouthful of bread!

Yet why did I allow this man

To touch my soul and teach me love?

He treated me like any other

He gave me his trust, he called me brother

My life he claims for God above

Can such things be?

For I had come to hate the world

This world that always hated me

Take an eye for an eye!

Turn your heart into stone!

This is all I have lived for!

This is all I have known!

One word from him and I'd be back

Beneath the lash, upon the rack

Instead he offers me my freedom

I feel my shame inside me like a knife

He told me that I have a soul

How does he know?

What spirit comes to move my life?

Is there another way to go?

I am reaching, but I fall

And the night is closing in

As I stare into the void

To the whirlpool of my sin!

I'll escape now from that world

From the world of Jean Valjean!

Jean Valjean is nothing now!

Another story must begin!