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Les Miserables - Prologue Lyrics

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  • [Chorus]
  • Look down, look down
  • Don't look 'em in the eye
  • Look down, look down
  • You're here until you die
  • [1ST convict]
  • The sun is strong
  • It's hot as hell below
  • [Chorus]
  • Look down, look down
  • There's twenty years to go.
  • [2ND convict]
  • I've done no wrong
  • Sweet Jesus, here my prayer
  • [Chorus]
  • Look down, look down
  • Sweet Jesus doesn't care
  • 3RD convict
  • I know she'll wait
  • I know that she'll be true
  • [Chorus]
  • Look down, look down
  • They've all forgotten you
  • 4TH convict
  • When I get free
  • You won't see me
  • 'Ere for dust
  • [Chorus]
  • Look down, look down
  • Don't look 'em in the eye.
  • 5TH convict
  • How long, O Lord
  • Before you let me die?
  • [Chorus]
  • Look down, look down
  • You'll always be a slave
  • Look down, look down
  • You're standing in your grave.
  • [Javert]
  • Now bring me prisoner 24601
  • Your time is up
  • And your parole's begun
  • You know what that means.
  • [Valjean]
  • Yes, it means I'm free.
  • [Javert]
  • No! It means you get
  • Your yellow ticket-of-leave
  • You are a thief.
  • [Valjean]
  • I stole a loaf of bread.
  • [Javert]
  • You robbed a house.
  • [Valjean]
  • I broke a window pane.
  • My sisters child was close to death
  • And we were starving.
  • [Javert]
  • You will starve again
  • Unless you learn the meaning of the law.
  • [Valjean]
  • I know the meaning of those 19 years
  • A slave of the law.
  • [Javert]
  • Five years for what you did
  • The rest because you tried to run
  • Yes, 24601.
  • [Valjean]
  • My name is Jean Valjean.
  • [Javert]
  • And I am Javert
  • Do not forget my name
  • Do not forget me
  • 24601
  • [Chorus]
  • Look down, look down
  • You'll always be a slave
  • Look down, look down
  • You're standing in your grave.
  • [Valjean]
  • Freedom is mine. The earth is still.
  • I feel the wind. I breathe again.
  • And the skies clear.
  • The earth is waking.
  • Drink from the pool. How clean the taste.
  • Never forget the years, the waste.
  • Nor forgive them
  • For what they've done.
  • They are the guilty- everyone.
  • The day begins...
  • And now let's see
  • What this new world,
  • Will do for me!
  • [Farmer]
  • You'll have to go
  • I'll pay you off for the day
  • Collect your bits and pieces there
  • And be on your way.
  • [Valjean]
  • You have given me half
  • What the other men get
  • This handful of tin
  • Wouldn't buy my sweat!
  • [Labourer]
  • You broke the law
  • It's there for people to see
  • Why should you get the same
  • As honest men like me?
  • [Valjean]
  • Now every door is closed to me
  • Another jail. Another key. Another Chain.
  • For when I come to any town
  • They check my papers
  • And they find the mark of Cain.
  • In their eyes
  • I see their fear
  • "We do not want you here."
  • [Innkeepers wife]
  • My rooms are full
  • And I've no supper to spare
  • I'd like to help a stranger
  • All we want is to be fair.
  • [Valjean]
  • I will pay in advance
  • I will sleep in a barn
  • You see how dark it is
  • I'm not some kind of dog.
  • [Innkeeper]
  • You leave my house!
  • Or feel the weight of my rod.
  • We're law-abiding people here
  • Thanks be to God.
  • [Valjean]
  • And now I know how freedom feels
  • The jailer always at your heels
  • It is the law!
  • Ths piece of paper in my hand
  • It makes me cursed throughout the land
  • It is the law!
  • Like a curse
  • I walk the street,
  • The dirt beneath their feet...
  • [Bishop]
  • Come in, Sir, for you are weary
  • And the night is cold out there.
  • Though our lives are vey humble
  • What we have, we have to share.
  • There is wine here to revive you.
  • There is bread to make you strong.
  • There's a bed to rest 'til morning.
  • Rest from pain, and rest from wrong.
  • [Valjean]
  • He let me eat my fill.
  • I had the lion's share.
  • This silver in my hand
  • Costs twice what I had earned
  • In all those nineteen years-
  • That lifetime of despair
  • And yet he trusted me-
  • The old fool trusted me-
  • He'd done his bit of good
  • I played the greatful serf
  • And thanked him like I should.
  • But when the house was still,
  • I got up in the night
  • Took the silver,
  • Took my flight!
  • [Constable 1]
  • Tell his reverence your story.
  • [Constable 2]
  • Let us see if he's impressed.
  • [Constable 1]
  • You were lodging here last night.
  • [Constable 2]
  • You were the honest Bishop's guest.
  • And than out of Christian goodness.
  • When he learned about your plight
  • [Constable 1]
  • You mantain he made a present of this
  • Sliver
  • [Bishop]
  • That is right.
  • But my friend you left so early
  • Surely something slipped your mind.
  • You forgot I gave these also.
  • Would you leave the best behind?
  • So, Messieurs, you may release him
  • For this man has spoken true.
  • I commend you for your duty
  • And God's blessing go with you.
  • (to 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!

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