Les Misérables OLC1985

VALJEAN (to COSETTE) now you are here Again beside me now I can die in peace for now my life is blessed... COSETTE You will live, Papa, you're going to live It's too soon, too soon to say goodbye! VALJEAN Yes, Cosette, forbid me now to die I'll obey I will try. On this page I write my last confession read it well when I, at last, am sleeping It's a story Of those who always loved you Your mother gave her life for you Then gave you to my keeping. FANTINE Come with me Where chains will never bind you All your grief At last, at last behind you Lord in Heaven Look down on him in mercy. VALJEAN forgive me all my trespasses And take me to your glory. VALJEAN, FANTINE, EPONINE Take my hand And lead me to salvation Take my love For love is everlasting And remember The truth that once was spoken To love another person Is to see the face of God. CHORUS do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth there is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. They will live again in freedom in the garden of the Lord. They will walk behind the ploughshare; they will put away the sword. The chain will be broken and all men will have their reward. Will you join in our crusade? Who will be strong and stand with me? Somewhere beyond the barricade is there a world you long to see? Do you hear the people sing? Say, do you hear the distant drums? It is the future that they bring when tomorrow comes! Will you join in our crusade? Who will be strong and stand with me? Somewhere beyond the barricade is there a world you long to see? Do you hear the people sing? Say, do you hear the distant drums? It is the future that they bring when tomorrow comes... Tomorrow comes!

(Marius and Cosette lead a wedding procession) CHORUS Ring out the bells Upon this day of days! May all the angels Of the Lord above In jubilation Sing their songs of praise! And crown this Blessed time with Peace and love. (The procession becomes a dancing celebration. A waltz is played) THENARDIER Ain't it a laugh Ain't it a treat? Hob-nobbin' here Among the elite? Here comes a prince There goes a Jew. This one's a queer But what can you do? Paris at my feet Paris in the dust And here's me breaking bread With the upper crust! Beggar at the feast! Master of the dance! Life is easy pickings If you grab your chance. Everywhere you go Law-abiding folk Doing what is decent But they're mostly broke! Singing to the Lord on Sundays Praying for the gifts He'll send. M. & MME. THENARDIER But we're the ones who take it We're the ones who make it in the end! Watch the buggers dance Watch 'em till they drop Keep your wits about you And you stand on top! Masters of the land Always get our share Clear away the barricades And we're still there! We know where the wind is blowing Money is the stuff we smell. And when we're rich as Croesus Jesus! Won't we see you all in hell!

(Marius, recovering from his wounds, imagines he is back at the ABC cafe) MARIUS There's a grief that can't be spoken. There's a pain goes on and on. Empty chairs at empty tables Now my friends are dead and gone. Here they talked of revolution. Here it was they lit the flame. Here they sang about `tomorrow' And tomorrow never came. From the table in the corner They could see a world reborn And they rose with voices ringing I can hear them now! The very words that they had sung Became their last communion On the lonely barricade at dawn. Oh my friends, my friends forgive me (The ghosts of those who died on the barricade appear) That I live and you are gone. There's a grief that can't be spoken. There's a pain goes on and on. Phantom faces at the window. Phantom shadows on the floor. Empty chairs at empty tables Where my friends will meet no more. (The ghosts fade away) Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me What your sacrifice was for Empty chairs at empty tables Where my friends will sing no more.

WOMAN ONE Did you see them Going off to fight? WOMAN TWO Children of the barricade Who didn't last the night? WOMAN THREE Did you see them Lying where they died? Someone used to cradle them And kiss them when they cried. WOMAN FOUR Did you see them lying side by side? WOMAN FIVE Who will wake them? WOMAN SIX No one ever will. WOMAN TWO No one ever told them That a summer day can kill. WOMAN SEVEN They were schoolboys Never held a gun... Fighting for a new world That would rise up like the sun. WOMAN THREE Where's that new world now the fighting's done? WOMAN FOUR Nothing changes. WOMAN SEVEN Nothing ever will. WOMAN EIGHT Every year another brat, another mouth to fill. WOMAN SEVEN Same old story. What's the use of tears? WOMAN FIVE What's the use of praying if there's nobody who hears? ALL Turning, turning, turning, turning, turning Through the years. Turning, turning, turning through the years Minutes into hours and the hours into years. Nothing changes. Nothing ever can Round about the roundabout and back where you began. Round and round and back where you began!

(Javert walks the deserted streets until he comes to a bridge over the river Seine) JAVERT Who is this man? What sort of devil is he To have me caught in a trap And choose to let me go free? It was his hour at last To put a seal on my fate Wipe out the past And wash me clean off the slate! All it would take Was a flick of his knife. Vengeance was his And he gave me back my life! Damned if I'll live in the debt of a thief! Damned if I'll yield at the end of the chase. I am the Law and the Law is not mocked I'll spit his pity right back in his face There is nothing on earth that we share It is either Valjean or Javert! How can I now allow this man To hold dominion over me? This desperate man whom I have hunted He gave me my life. He gave me freedom. I should have perished by his hand It was his right. It was my right to die as well Instead I live... but live in hell. And my thoughts fly apart Can this man be believed? Shall his sins be forgiven? Shall his crimes be reprieved? And must I now begin to doubt, Who never doubted all these years? My heart is stone and still it trembles The world I have known is lost in shadow. Is he from heaven or from hell? And does he know That granting me my life today This man has killed me even so? I am reaching, but I fall And the stars are black and cold As I stare into the void Of a world that cannot hold I'll escape now from the world From the world of Jean Valjean. There is nowhere I can turn There is no way to go on.... (He throws himself into the swollen river)

THENARDIER Here's a hint of gold Stuck into a tooth Pardon me M'sieur You won't be needing it no more. Shouldn't be too hard to sell. Add it to the pile Add it to the stock Here among the sewer rats A breath away from Hell You get accustomed to the smell. Well someone's got to clean 'em up, my friends Bodies on the highway Law and order upside down Someone's got to collect their odds and ends As a service to the town! (Valjean arrives, carrying MARIUS. VALJEAN collapses) (THENARDIER robs marius) Here's a tasty ring Pretty little thing Wouldn't want to waste it That would really be a crime Thank you sir, I'm in your debt Here's another toy Take it off the boy His heart's no longer going And he's lived his little time But his watch is ticking yet! Well, someone's got to clean them up, my friends Before the little harvest Disappears into the mud Someone's got to collect their odds and ends When the gutters run with blood. It's a world where the dog eats the dog Where they kill for bones in the street And God in His Heaven He don't interfere 'Cause he's dead as the stiffs at my feet I raise my eyes to see the heavens And only the moon looks down The harvest moon shines down!

(Valjean is standing over Marius at the barricade) VALJEAN God on high Hear my prayer In my need You have always been there He is young He's afraid Let him rest Heaven blessed. Bring him home Bring him home Bring him home. He's like the son I might have known If God had granted me a son. The summers die One by one How soon they fly On and on And I am old And will be gone. Bring him peace Bring him joy He is young He is only a boy You can take You can give Let him be Let him live If I die, let me die Let him live Bring him home Bring him home Bring him home.

FEUILLY Drink with me to days gone by Sing with me the songs we knew PROUVAIRE Here's to pretty girls who went to our heads. JOLY Here's to witty girls who went to our beds. ALL Here's to them and here's to you! GRANTAIRE Drink with me to days gone by Can it be you fear to die? Will the world remember you When you fall? Could it be your death Means nothing at all? Is your life just one more lie? ALL Drink with me to days gone by To the life that used to be WOMEN At the shrine of friendship, never say die MEN Let the wine of friendship never run dry ALL Here's to you and here's to me MARIUS Do I care if I should die Now she goes across the sea? Life without Cosette Means nothing at all. Would you weep, Cosette, Should Marius fall? Will you weep, Cosette, For me? (Marius settles down to sleep)

EPONINE Don't you fret, M'sieur Marius I don't feel any pain A little fall of rain Can hardly hurt me now You're here, that's all I need to know And you will keep me safe And you will keep me close And rain will make the flowers grow. MARIUS But you will live, 'Ponine - dear God above, If I could heal your wounds with words of love. EPONINE Just hold me now, and let it be. Shelter me, comfort me MARIUS You would live a hundred years If I could show you how I won't desert you now... EPONINE The rain can't hurt me now This rain will wash away what's past And you will keep me safe And you will keep me close I'll sleep in your embrace at last. The rain that brings you here Is Heaven-blessed! The skies begin to clear And I'm at rest A breath away from where you are I've come home from so far So don't you fret, M'sieur Marius I don't feel any pain A little fall of rain Can hardly hurt me now That's all I need to know And you will keep me safe And you will keep me close MARIUS(in counterpoint) Hush-a-bye, dear Eponine, You won't feel any pain A little fall of rain Can hardly hurt you now I'm here I will stay with you Till you are sleeping EPONINE And rain... MARIUS And rain... EPONINE Will make the flowers... MARIUS Will make the flowers... grow... (She dies. Marius kisses her, then lays her on the ground)

ARMY OFFICER You of the barricade listen to this! No one is coming to help you to fight! You're on your own You have no friends Give up! Your guns or die! ENJOLRAS Damn, their warnings Damn their lies! They will see the people rise! STUDENTS Damn, their warnings Damn their lies! They will see the people rise!

And now I'm all alone again nowhere to turn, no one to go to without a home without a friend without a face to say hello to And now the night is near Now I can make believe he's here Sometimes I walk alone at night When everybody else is sleeping I think of him and then I'm happy With the company I'm keeping The city goes to bed And I can live inside my head On my own Pretending he's beside me All alone I walk with him till morning Without him I feel his arms around me And when I lose my way I close my eyes And he has found me In the rain the pavement shines like silver All the lights are misty in the river In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight And all I see is him and me forever and forever And I know it's only in my mind That I'm talking to myself and not to him And although I know that he is blind Still I say, there's a way for us I love him But when the night is over He is gone The river's just a river Without him The world around me changes The trees are bare and everywhere The streets are full of strangers I love him But every day I'm learning All my life I've only been pretending Without me His world will go on turning A world that's full of happiness That I have never known I love him I love him I love him But only on my own

VALJEAN One day more! Another day, another destiny. This never-ending road to Calvary; These men who seem to know my crime Will surely come a second time. One day more! MARIUS I did not live until today. How can I live when we are parted? VALJEAN One day more. MARIUS & COSETTE Tomorrow you'll be worlds away And yet with you, my world has started! EPONINE One more day all on my own. MARIUS & COSETTE Will we ever meet again? EPONINE One more day with him not caring. MARIUS & COSETTE I was born to be with you. EPONINE What a life I might have known. MARIUS & COSETTE And I swear I will be true! EPONINE But he never saw me there! ENJOLRAS One more day before the storm! MARIUS Do I follow where she goes? ENJOLRAS At the barricades of freedom. MARIUS Shall I join my brothers there? ENJOLRAS When our ranks begin to form MARIUS Do I stay; and do I dare? ENJOLRAS Will you take your place with me? ALL The time is now, the day is here! VALJEAN One day more! JAVERT One more day to revolution, We will nip it in the bud! I will join these little schoolboys They will wet themselves with blood! VALJEAN One day more! M. & MME. THENARDIER Watch 'em run amuck, Catch 'em as they fall, Never know your luck When there's a free for all, Here a little `dip' There a little `touch' Most of them are goners So they won't miss much! STUDENTS (2 Groups) One day to a new beginning Raise the flag of freedom high! Every man will be a king Every man will be a king There's a new world for the winning There's a new world to be won ALL Do you hear the people sing? MARIUS My place is here, I fight with you! VALJEAN One day more! MARIUS & COSETTE I did not live until today. EPONINE One more day all on my own! MARIUS & COSETTE How can I live when we are parted? JAVERT(overlapping) I will join these people's heros I will follow where they go I will learn their little Secrets, I will know the things they know. VALJEAN One day more! MARIUS & COSETTE Tomorrow you'll be worlds away EPONINE What a life I might have known! MARIUS & COSETTE And yet with you my world has started JAVERT(overlapping) One more day to revolution We will nip it in the bud We'll be ready for these Schoolboys THENARDIERS(overlapping) Watch 'em run amok Catch 'em as they fall Never know your luck When there's a free-for-all! VALJEAN Tomorrow we'll be far away, Tomorrow is the judgement day ALL Tomorrow we'll discover What our God in Heaven has in store! One more dawn One more day One day more!

(Thenardier arrives with the rest of his gang) THENARDIER This is his lair I've seen the old fox around He keeps himself to himself He's staying close to the ground I smell profit here! Ten years ago He came and paid for Cosette I let her go for a song It's time we settled the debt This'll cost him dear BRUJON What do I care Who you should rob? Gimme me my share Finish the job! THENARDIER You shut your mouth Give me your hand BRUJON (catching sight of Eponine) What have we here? THENARDIER (not recognizing her) Who is this hussy? BABET It's your brat Eponine Don't you know your own kid Why's she hanging about you? THENARDIER Eponine, get on home You're not needed in this We're enough here without you EPONINE I know this house I tell you there's nothing here for you Just the old man and the girl They live ordinary lives THENARDIER Don't interfere You've got some gall Take care, young miss, You've got a lot to say! BRUJON She's going soft CLAQUESOUS Happens to all MONTPARNASSE Go home, 'Ponine, Go home, you're in the way EPONINE I'm gonna scream, I'm gonna warn them here. THENARDIER One little scream and you'll regret it for a year. CLAQUESOUS What a palaver What an absolute treat To watch a cat and its father Pick a bone in the street BRUJON Not a sound out of you! EPONINE Well I told you I'd do it, told you I'd do it... (She screams) THENARDIER Make for the sewers, don't wait around Leave her to me, go underground! You wait my girl, you'll rue this night I'll make you scream, you'll scream alright (The gang scatters. Marius and Cosette run back into the garden and he hurriedly introduces Eponine before she takes off) MARIUS It was your cry sent them away Once more 'Ponine saving the day Dearest Cosette - my friend 'Ponine Brought me to you, showed me the way! Someone is near Let's not be seen Somebody's here! (Marius leaves quickly as Valjean enters)

COSETTE I saw him once Then he was gone We were like dreamers at night Who meet as in a trace, then part again! Two phantoms in the shadows of the moon Can people really fall in love so soon? He walked alone He seemed alone like me Could he have known That moment was my destiny? I had to run away, And it was like a dream I saw him once The dream was true I saw him once, And once will do! In my life I have all that I want 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 VALJEAN No more words No more words. It's a time that is dead There are words That are better unheard, Better unsaid. (Valjean leaves the garden. Marius and Eponine arrive outside) MARIUS In my life She has burst like the music of angels The light of the sun And my life seems to stop As if something is over And something has scarcely begun. MARIUS & EPONINE In my life There is someone who touches my life MARIUS Waiting near EPONINE Waiting here (Marius goes into the garden, leaving Eponine outside) MARIUS A heart full of love A heart full of song I'm doing everything all wrong Oh God, for shame I do not even know your name Dear Mad'moiselle Won't you say? Will you tell? Cosette A heart full of love No fear, no regret Marius My name is Marius Pontmercy Cosette And mine's Cosette Marius Cosette, I don't know what to say Cosette Then make no sound Marius I am lost Cosette I am found! Marius A heart full of light Cosette A night bright as day Marius And you must never go away Cosette, Cosette Cosette This is a chain we'll never break Marius Do I dream? Cosette I'm awake! Marius Eponine [ outside, interjecting ] A heart full of love He was never mine to lose Cosette A heart full of you Why regret what could not be? Marius A single look and then I knew. These are words he'll never say Cosette I knew it too. Not to me... Marius From today... Not to me... Cosette Every day Not for me... Cosette & Marius For it isn't a dream His heart full of love Not a dream He will never After all! Feel this way...

ENJOLRAS Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people Who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start When tomorrow comes! COMBEFERRE Will you join in our crusade? Who will be strong and stand with me? Beyond the barricade Is there a world you long to see? Courfeyrac: Then join in the fight That will give you the right to be free! ALL Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people Who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start When tomorrow comes! FEUILLY Will you give all you can give So that our banner may advance Some will fall and some will live Will you stand up and take your chance? The blood of the martyrs Will water the meadows of France! ALL Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people Who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start When tomorrow comes!

(The ABC Cafe, where the students, led by Enjolras, meet to discuss their revolutionary plans) COMBEFERRE At Notre Dame the sections are prepared! FEUILLY At rue de Bac they're straining at the leash! COURFEYRAC Students, workers, everyone There's a river on the run Like the flowing of the tide Paris coming to our side! ENJORAS The time is near So near it's stirring the blood in their veins! And yet beware Don't let the wine go to your brains! For the army we fight is a dangerous foe With the men and the arms that we never can match It is easy to sit here and swat 'em like flies But the national guard will be harder to catch. We need a sign To rally the people To call them to arms To bring them in line! (Marius enters) Marius, you're late. JOLY Marius what's wrong with you today? You look as if you've seen a ghost. GRANTAIRE Some wine and say what's going on! MARIUS A ghost you say... a ghost maybe She was just like a ghost to me One minute there, and she was gone! GRANTAIRE I am agog! I am aghast! Is Marius in love at last? I've never heard him `ooh' and `aah' You talk of battles to be won And here he comes like Don Ju-an It's better than an o-per-a! ENJOLRAS It is time for us all To decide who we are Do we fight for the right To a night at the opera now? Have you asked of yourselves What's the price you might pay? Is it simply a game For rich young boys to play? The color of the world Is changing day by day... Red - the blood of angry men! Black - the dark of ages past! Red - a world about to dawn! Black - the night that ends at last! MARIUS Had you been there tonight You might know how it feels To be struck to the bone In a moment of breathless delight! Had you been there tonight You might also have known How the world may be changed In just one burst of light! And what was right seems wrong And what was wrong seems right! GRANTAIRE Red... MARIUS I feel my soul on fire! GRANTAIRE Black... MARIUS My world if she's not there! ALL Red... MARIUS The color of desire! ALL Black... MARIUS The color of despair! ENJOLRAS Marius, you're no longer a child I do not doubt you mean it well But now there is a higher call. Who cares about your lonely soul? We strive toward a larger goal Our little lives don't count at all! ALL Red - the blood of angry men! Black - the dark of ages past! Red - a world about to dawn! Black - the night that ends at last!

They laugh at me. these fellows, just because I am small. They laugh at me because I'm not a hundred feet tall. I tell 'em there's a lot to learn here on the ground. The world is big but little people turn it around. A worm can roll a stone, A bee can sting a bear, A fly can fly around Versailles [pronounced vur-sigh] 'Cos flies don't care! A sparrow in a hat can make a happy home, A flea can bite the bottom of the Pope in Rome! Goliath was a bruiser who was as tall as the sky, but David threw a right and gave him one in the eye. I've never read the Bible but I know that it's true It only comes to show what little people can do! A worm can roll a stone, A bee can sting a bear, A fly can fly around Versailles 'Cos flies don't care! A sparrow in a hat can make a happy home, A flea can bite the bottom of the Pope in Rome!

1832. The teeming, squalid streets of Paris. Beggars, urchins, prostitutes, students, etc. BEGGARS Look down and see the beggars at your feet Look down and show some mercy if you can Look down and see the sweepings of the street Look down, look down, Upon your fellow man! GAVROCHE 'Ow do you do? My name's Gavroche. These are my people. Here's my patch. Not much to look at, nothing posh Nothing that you'd call up to scratch. This is my school, my high society Here in the slums of Saint Michele We live on crumbs of humble piety Tough on the teeth, but what the hell! Think you're poor? Think you're free? Follow me! Follow me! BEGGARS Look down and show some mercy if you can Look down, look down, upon your fellow man! (An old beggar woman finds a young prostitute occupying her pitch) ENJOLRAS Where the leaders of the land? Where are the swells who run this show? MARIUS Only one man - and that's Lamarque Speaks for these people here below MARIUS Lamarque is ill and fading fast! Won't last the week out, so they say. ENJOLRAS With all the anger in the land How long before the judgement day? Before we cut the fat ones down to size? Before the barricades arise? BEGGARS Look down and show some mercy if you can Look down, look down upon your fellow man!

JAVERT There, out in the darkness A fugitive running Fallen from grace Fallen from grace God be my witness I never shall yield Till we come face to face Till we come face to face He knows his way in the dark Mine is the way of the Lord And those who follow the path of the righteous Shall have their reward And if they fall As Lucifer fell The flame The sword! Stars In your multitudes Scarce to be counted Filling the darkness With order and light You are the sentinels Silent and sure Keeping watch in the night Keeping watch in the night You know your place in the sky You hold your course and your aim And each in your season Returns and returns And is always the same And if you fall as Lucifer fell You fall in flame! And so it has been and so it is written On the doorway to paradise That those who falter and those who fall Must pay the price! Filling the darkness With order and light You are the sentinels Silent and sure Keeping watch in the night Keeping watch in the night

THENARDIER What to do? What to say? Shall you carry our treasure away? What a gem! What a pearl! Beyond rubies is our little girl! How can we speak of debt? Let's not haggle for darling Cosette! Dear Fantine, gone to rest... Have we done for her child what is best? Shared our bread. Shared each bone. Treated her like she's one of our own! Like our own, Monsieur! VALJEAN Your feelings do you credit, sir And I will ease the parting blow He pays them. Let us not talk of bargains or bones or greed Now, may I say, we are agreed? MME. THENARDIER That would quite fit the bill If she hadn't so often been ill Little dear, cost us dear Medicines are expensive, M'sieur Not that we begrudged a sou It's no more than we Christians must do! M. & MME. THENARDIER One thing more, one small doubt There are treacherous people about No offense. Please reflect. Your intentions may not be correct? VALJEAN No more words. Here's your price. Fifteen hundred for your sacrifice. Come, Cosette, say goodbye Let us seek out some friendlier sky. Thank you both for Cosette It won't take you too long to forget. (Valjean and Cosette leave the inn)