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Prologue: What Have I Done? Lyrics

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[The bishop addresses Valjean]

But remember this, my brother
See in this some higher plan
You must use this precious silver
To become an honest man
By the witness of the martyrs
By the Passion and the Blood
God has raised you out of darkness
I have bought your soul for God!

[VALJEAN]
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 where I stand at the turning of the years?

If there's another way to go
I missed it twenty 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 that 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
And I stare into the void
To the whirlpool of my sin
I'll escape now from the world
From the world of Jean Valjean
Jean Valjean is nothing now
Another story must begin!

[He tears up his yellow ticket-of-leave]
Last Update: July, 01st 2014

Les Miserables Lyrics

  1. Act 1
  2. Prologue: Work Song
  3. Prologue: Valijean Arrested/Valijean Forgiven
  4. Prologue: What Have I Done?
  5. At The End Of The Day
  6. I Dreamed A Dream
  7. Lovely Ladies
  8. Who Am I?
  9. Fantine's Death: Come To Me
  10. Confrontation
  11. Castle On A Cloud
  12. Master Of The House
  13. Thenardier Waltz
  14. Look Down
  15. Stars
  16. Red & Black
  17. Do You Hear The People Sing?
  18. Act 2
  19. In My Life
  20. A Heart Full of Love
  21. Plumet Attack
  22. One Day More!
  23. Building The Barricade
  24. On My Own
  25. At The Barricade
  26. Javert At The Barricade
  27. A Little Fall Of Rain
  28. Drink With Me
  29. Bring Him Home
  30. Dog Eat Dog
  31. Javert's Suicide
  32. Turning
  33. Empty Chairs At Empty Tables
  34. Wedding Chorale/Beggars at the Feast
  35. Finale

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