All language subtitles for les.miserables.2012.hdr.2160p.web.h265_track3_[eng]

(DRUMS BEATING RHYTHMICALLY)

(CONVICTS GRUNTING
RHYTHMICALLY)

(SINGING)
Look down, look down

Don't look them in the eye

CONVICTS: Look down, look down

You're here until you die

No God above

And hell alone below

CONVICTS: Look down, look down

There's 20 years to go

I've done no wrong

Sweet Jesus, hear my prayer!

CONVICTS: Look down, look down

Sweet Jesus doesn't care

CONVICT: I know she'll wait

I know that she'll be true

CONVICTS: Look down, look down

They've all forgotten you

When I get free

You won't see me
Here for dust!

CONVICTS: Huh!

Look down, look down

You'll always be a slave

Look down, look down

You're standing
in your grave

Retrieve the flag.

(GRUNTING)

(THUDDING)

(SINGING)
Now, Prisoner 24601

Your time is up
And your parole's begun

You know what that means?

Yes. It means I'm free

No. Follow to the letter
Your itinerary

This badge of shame
You'll show it till you die

It warns you're
a dangerous man

I stole a loaf of bread

My sister's child
was close to death

And we were starving

You will starve again

Unless you learn
the meaning of the law

I know the meaning
of those 19 years

A slave of the law!

Five years for what you did

The rest because
you tried to run

Yes, 24601

My name is Jean Valjean!

And I'm Javert!

Do not forget my name

Do not forget me

24601

CONVICTS: Look down, look down

You'll always be a slave

Look down, look down

You're standing
in your grave

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(PANTING)

(SINGING) Freedom at last
How strange 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

Can I help?
A day's work?

OVERSEER: Papers.

No work here.

MAIRIE OFFICER: Valjean,
as a dangerous man,
you will be on parole forever.

Failure to report
means immediate arrest.

Be in Pontarlier in 30 days.

Follow him.

(EXCLAIMS IN ANNOYANCE)

(YELLING)

INNKEEPER: Let me
see your papers.

Monsieur?
Papers.

I'll sleep in the stable.
Please, I'm hungry.

Get out.

(GROANS)

(EXHALES)

(GASPS) Hey!

(SINGING) Come in,
sir, for you are weary

And the night is cold
out here

Though our lives
are very 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 till morning

Rest from pain
And rest from wrong

Bless the food we eat today.

Bless our dear sister
and our honored guest.

(SIGHS)

(CLATTERING)

Get in there!
Put him down!

Stay there!

(GROANS)

CONSTABLE: Monsignor.

We have your silver.

We caught this man
red-handed.

He had the nerve to
say you gave him this.

(SINGING) 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?

Messieurs, release him

This man has spoken true

I commend you for your duty

Now God's blessing go with you

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 saved your soul for

God

(SINGING) What have I done?
Sweet Jesus, what have I done?

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

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 20 long years ago

My life was a war
that could never be won

They gave me a number
and they murdered Valjean

When they chained me
and left me for dead

Just for stealing
a mouthful of bread

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

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?

(WEEPING)

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!

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

BEGGARS' CHORUS: (SINGING)
At the end of the day
you're another day older

And that's all you can say
for the life of the poor

It's a struggle! It's a war!

And there's nothing
that anyone's giving

One more day standing about
What is it for?

One day less to be living

At the end of the day
you're another day colder

And the shirt on your back
doesn't keep out the chill

And the righteous hurry past
They don't hear
the little ones crying

And the plague
is coming on fast
Ready to kill

One day nearer to dying!

At the end of the day
there's another day dawning

And the sun in the morning
is waiting to rise

Like the waves
crash on the sand

Like a storm
that'll break any second

There's a hunger in the land
There's a reckoning
still to be reckoned

And there's
gonna be hell to pay
At the end of the day!

(FACTORY WOMEN GIGGLING)
(SHUSHING)

At the end of the day
you get nothing for nothing

Sitting flat on your bum
doesn't buy any bread

There are children
back at home

And the children
have got to be fed

And you're lucky
to be in a job

And in a bed
(GASPS)

And we're counting
our blessings

Have you seen
how the foreman
is fuming today

With his terrible breath
and his wandering hands?

It's because little Fantine
won't give him his way

Take a look at his trousers
You'll see where he stands!

(ALL GIGGLING)

And the boss, he never
knows that the foreman
is always on heat

If Fantine doesn't look out,
watch how she goes

She'll be
out on the street

FACTORY WOMEN:
At the end of the day
it's another day over

With enough in your pocket
to last for a week

Pay the landlord, pay the shop
Keep on working as
long as you're able

Keep on working till you drop
Or it's back to
the crumbs off the table

Well,
you've got to pay your way
At the end of the day!

And what have we here,
little innocent sister?

Come on, Fantine,
let's have all the news

"Dear Fantine,
you must send us more money

"Your child needs a doctor
There's no time to lose"

Give that letter to me
It is none of your business

(GASPS)

With a husband at home
and a bit on the side

Is there anyone here
who can swear before God

She has nothing to fear?
She has nothing to hide?

Stop making trouble.
I'm not making trouble.

Foreman!

What are you doing?

FOREMAN: Come on, stop that!
Monsieur Madeleine is here!

(SINGING) What is
this fighting all about?
Someone tear these two apart!

This is a factory,
not a circus

Now, come on, ladies,
settle down

I am the mayor of this town

I run a business of repute

(PANTING SOFTLY)

Deal with this, Foreman.
Be as patient as you can.

Yes,
Monsieur Madeleine.

Now, someone say
how this began.

(SINGING)
At the end of the day
she's the one who began it!

There's a kid
that she's hiding
in some little town

There's a man
she has to pay

You can guess how
she picks up the extra

You can bet she's
earning her keep
sleeping around!

And the boss
wouldn't like it

Yes, it's true there's a child
And the child is my daughter

And her father
abandoned us,
leaving us flat

Now she lives
with an innkeeper
man and his wife

And I pay for the child
What's the matter with that?

WOMEN: At the end of the day
she'll be nothing but trouble

And there's trouble for all
when there's trouble for one

While we're earning
our daily bread

She's the one with
her hands in the butter

You must send the slut away
or we're all going
to end in the gutter

And it's us who'll have to pay
At the end of the day!

I might have known
the bitch could bite

I might have known
the cat had claws

I might have guessed
your little secret

Ah, yes, the virtuous Fantine
who keeps herself
so pure and clean

You'd be the cause,
I had no doubt
of any trouble hereabout

You play a virgin
in the light

But need no urging
in the night

WOMAN: She's been
laughing at you while
she's having her men!

WOMEN: She'll be nothing
but trouble again and again!

You must sack her today!
Sack the girl today!

Right, my girl
On your way

Monsieur le Mayor!
Monsieur le Mayor!

Monsieur le Mayor!

Monsieur le Mayor!
Monsieur le Mayor!

Please!
Please, monsieur!

I have a child!
Monsieur!

(COINS CLINKING)
Please! Please.

(SOBBING)

(SIGHS)

Welcome, Inspector.

Monsieur le Mayor.

(SINGING) Please
know me as Javert

I'm here at your command

With honor due to each
And justice in our hand

No man's beyond our reach

Let all beware

Welcome, sir
Come guard our laws

I'm sure we're here
In common cause

You've done the city proud

You're praised
by those on high

Your success
has earned a force

The best that Paris
can supply

Your people thrive

The dignity of toil
To stay alive

It seems to me
we may have met

Your face is not a face
I would forget

FOREMAN: Monsieur Madeleine!
Pardon.

Monsieur le Mayor!

(MEN GRUNTING)

Monsieur le Mayor!

The weight,
it's crushing him!

Stay still, stay still.

(GROANING)

(GRUNTING)

(MAN CRIES OUT)
Hold, hold, hold!
Hold that steady.

Hold it steady!

(GRUNTING)

That's it. That's it.

(CART SLAMS)

(MEN PANTING)

(SINGING) Can this be true?
I don't believe what I see

A man your age
To be as strong as you are

A memory stirs

You make me think of a man

From years ago

A man who broke his parole

He disappeared

Say what you must
Don't leave it there

Forgive me, sir
I would not dare

(SHIP'S BELL TOLLING)

(GREETING IN FRENCH)

How much for this?
It's my daughter's.

I'll give you
four francs for that.

Four? It's worth 10!

(CHUCKLING) No.

(SINGING) I smell women
Smell 'em in the air

Think I'll drop my anchor
In that harbor over there

Five?

(SINGING) Lovely lady
I'll love you till I'm broke

Seven months at sea
and now I'm hungry for a poke!

Even stokers
need a little stoke!

PROSTITUTES: Lovely ladies
Waiting for a bite!

Waiting for the customers
Who only come at night

Lovely ladies
Ready for the call

Standing up or lying down
Or any way at all

Bargain prices
up against the wall!

What pretty hair!

What pretty locks
you've got there!

What luck you've got
It's worth a centime,
my dear!

I'll take the lot!

Don't touch me!
Leave me alone!

Let's make a price

I'll give you
all of 10 francs

Just think of that

It pays a debt

Just think of that

What can I do?
It pays a debt

Ten francs may
save my poor Cosette

PROSTITUTES: Lovely ladies
Waiting in the dark

Ready for a thick one
Or a quick one in the park

Long time, short time
Any time, my dear!

Costs a little extra
If you want to take all year

PROSTITUTES: Quick and cheap
is underneath the pier

Go and see them.

(SINGING)
Come over here

It's 20 francs for a tooth

PROSTITUTE:
Come here, my dear

I'll pay you well
for your youth

The pain won't last
You'll still be able to bite

(WHISPERING)
Just the back ones.

(SINGING) I do it fast
I know my business all right

It's worth a go

You'll pay me first
what I am due

You'll get twice
if I take two

(MUFFLED PROTESTS)

Give me the dirt
Who's that bit over there?

A bit of skirt
She's the one sold her hair

She's got a kid
Sends her all that she can

I might have known
There is always some man

Lovely lady,
come along and join us!

Lovely lady!

Come on, dearie,
why all the fuss?

You're no grander
than the rest of us

Life has dropped you
at the bottom of the heap

Join your sisters

Make money in your sleep

That's right, dearie
Show him what you've got

That's right, dearie
Let him have the lot

PROSTITUTES:
Old men, young men
Take 'em as they come!

Harbor rats and alley cats
and every kind of scum

Poor men, rich men,
leaders of the land

See them with
their trousers off
They're never quite as grand!

All it takes is
money in your hand

Lovely ladies
Going for a song

Got a lot of callers
But they never stay for long

Come on, Captain
You can wear your shoes

Don't it make a change
to have a girl
who can't refuse?

Easy money
Lying on a bed

Just as well they never see
The hate that's in your head

Don't they know
they're making love
to one already dead?

(MAN EXHALES)

(COINS CLINKING)

There was a time
when men were kind

When their voices were soft

And their words inviting

There was a time
when love was blind

And the world was a song

And the song was exciting

There was a time

Then it all went wrong

I dreamed a dream
in time gone by

When hope was high
And life worth living

I dreamed that
love would never die

I dreamed that God
would be forgiving

Then I was young and unafraid

And dreams were made
and used and wasted

There was no ransom to be paid

No song unsung,
no wine untasted

But the tigers come at night

With their voices
soft as thunder

As they tear your hope apart

As they turn
your dream to shame

He slept a summer by my side

He filled my days
with endless wonder

He took my childhood
in his stride

But he was gone
when autumn came

(SOBBING)

And still I dream
he'll come to me

That we will live
the years together

But there are dreams
that cannot be

And there are storms
we cannot weather

(SOBBING)

I had a dream my life would be

So different from
this hell I'm living

So different now
from what it seemed!

Now

Life has killed the dream

I dreamed

Have you anywhere to go?
No? You need to get warm.

(FANTINE COUGHING)

BAMATABOIS:
What do you have for me?

PIMP: Here's
our youngest, sir.

(SINGING)
I don't want you

You've got some nerve,
you little slut.
You've got some gall.

(LAUGHS MOCKINGLY)
(GASPS)

(SCREAMS)
Ow!

(SINGING) By Christ,
you'll pay for
what you've done

I guarantee
I'll make you suffer

I beg you,
don't report me, sir

I'll do whatever
you may want

Make your excuse to the police

Tell me quickly
what's the story

Who saw what
and why and where?

Let him give
a full description
Let him answer to Javert

Javert, would you believe it?
I was lost here in the dark

When this
prostitute attacked me
You can see she left her mark

She will answer
for her actions
If you make a full report

You may rest assured, monsieur
She will answer to the court

There's a child
who sorely needs me

Please, monsieur,
she's but that high

Holy God, is there no mercy?

If I go to jail she'll die

I have heard
such protestations
every day for 20 years

Let's have
no more explanations

Save your breath,
save your tears

Honest work, just reward

That's the way
to please the Lord

A moment of your time, Javert
I do believe this woman's tale

Monsieur le Mayor!

You've done your duty,
let her be

She needs a doctor,
not a jail

Monsieur le Mayor!

Can this be?

Where will she end

This child without a friend?

I've seen your face before

(SHIVERING)

Show me some way to help you

How have you come to grief
In such a place as this?

Monsieur,
don't mock me now, I pray

It's hard enough
I've lost my pride

You let your foreman
send me away

Yes, you were there
And turned aside

(SPITS)

(WEEPING)

I never did no wrong

Is it true what I've done...

My daughter's close to dying

...to an innocent soul?

If there's a God above...

Had I only known then

...he'd let me die instead

In His name
my task has just begun

I will take her
to the hospital.

Monsieur le Mayor.

Where is your child?

With an innkeeper
in Montfermeil.

I will send for her
immediately.

(SINGING)
I will see it done!

Rest.

From Paris, monsieur.

(SINGING) Monsieur le Mayor,
I have a crime to declare!

I have disgraced
The uniform that I wear

I've done you wrong
Let no forgiveness be shown

I've been as hard
On every rogue I have known

I mistook you for a convict
I have made a false report

Now I learn
they caught the culprit
He's about to face the court

And of course
he now denies it
You'd expect that of a con

But he couldn't run forever
No, not even Jean Valjean

You say this man denies it all

And gives no sign of
understanding or repentance?

You say this man
is going to trial

And that he's
sure to be returned
to serve his sentence?

He will pay, and so must I

Press charges against me, sir

You have only
done your duty

It's a minor sin
at most

All of us have
made misjudgments

You'll return, sir,
to your post

(SIGHS IN RELIEF)

They think that man is me
Without a second glance

This stranger they have found
This man could be my chance

Why should I save his hide?
Why should I right this wrong?

When I have come so far
and struggled for so long?

If I speak, I am condemned

If I stay silent,
I am damned!

I am the master of
hundreds of workers

They all look to me

Can I abandon them?
How would they live
if I am not free?

If I speak, they are condemned

If I stay silent

I am damned

Who am I?

Can I condemn
this man to slavery?

Pretend I do not
feel his agony?

This innocent
who bears my face

Who goes to judgment
in my place

Who am I?

Can I conceal
myself forevermore?

Pretend I'm not
the man I was before?

And must my name until I die
be no more than an alibi?

Must I lie?

How can I ever
face my fellow men?

How can I ever
face myself again?

My soul belongs to God, I know
I made that bargain long ago

He gave me hope
when hope was gone

He gave me
strength to journey on!

Who am I?

Who am I?

I'm Jean Valjean

(URGES HORSE)

Monsieur le Mayor!

(SINGING) And so,
Your Honor, you see it's true

This man bears
no more guilt than you!

Who am I?

24601!

MAGISTRATE: Monsieur le Mayor,
you are not well.

You must come with me.

If you don't believe me,
ask Inspector Javert.

You'll find me
at the hospital.

(AUDIENCE MURMURING)

(SINGING) Cosette,
it's turned so cold

(COUGHING WEAKLY)

Cosette,
it's past your bedtime

You've played the day away

And soon it will be night

Come to me

Cosette, the light is fading

Don't you see

The evening star appearing?

Come to me

And rest against my shoulder

How fast the minutes fly away
and every minute colder

(VALJEAN SHUSHING)

Dear Fantine,
Cosette will be here soon

Dear Fantine,
she will be by your side

Come, Cosette

My child, where did you go?

Be at peace

Be at peace evermore

My Cosette

Shall live in my protection

Take her now

Your child will
want for nothing

Good monsieur,
you come from God in heaven

Tell Cosette I love her

And I'll see her when I wake

(SIGHS IN DISMAY)

(GASPS)

Valjean, at last
We see each other plain

"Monsieur le Mayor"
You'll wear a different chain

Before you say
another word, Javert

Before you chain me up
like a slave again

Listen to me!
There is something I must do

This woman leaves
behind a suffering child

There is none but me
who can intercede

In mercy's name,
three days are all I need

Then I'll return,
I pledge my word

Then I'll return

You must think me mad

I've hunted you
across the years

Men like you
can never change

A man such as you!

Believe of me what you will

Men like you
can never change

There is a duty
I'm sworn to do

Men like me
can never change

You know nothing of my life

No, 24601!

All I did was steal some bread

My duty is to the law

You know nothing
of the world

You have no rights

You would sooner
see me dead

Come with me, 24601!

But not before
I see this justice done!

JAVERT: Now the wheel
has turned around

Jean Valjean
means nothing now

Dare you talk to me
of crime

I am warning you, Javert

And the price
you had to pay

I'm the stronger man by far!

Every man is born in sin

There is power in me yet!

Every man
must choose his way

My race is not yet run!

You know nothing of Javert!

I was born inside a jail!

I was born
with scum like you!

I am from the gutter, too!

(LIVELY MUSIC PLAYING)

(CHILDREN LAUGHING)

There is a castle on a cloud

I like to go there in my sleep

Aren't any floors
for me to sweep

Not in my castle on a cloud

There is a lady all in white

Holds me and sings a lullaby

She's nice to see
and she's soft to touch

She says,
(WHISPERING) "Cosette,
I love you very much"

I know a place
where no one's lost

I know a place
where no one cries

Crying at all is not allowed

Not in my castle on a cloud

(GASPS)

Now look who's here!

The little madam herself

Pretending once again
she's been so awfully good

Better not let me
catch you slacking!
Better not catch my eye!

Ten rotten francs
your mother sends me
What is that going to buy?

Now take that pail
My little mademoiselle

And go and draw
some water from the well

We should never
have taken you in
in the first place

How stupid
the things that we do!

Like mother, like daughter,
the scum of the street

Mama!

(SINGING)
Eponine, come, my dear
Eponine, let me see you

You look very well in
that little blue hat

Oh.

There's some little girls
who know how to behave

And they know what to wear
And I'm saying
thank heaven for that!

Still there, Cosette?
Your tears will
do you no good!

I told you, fetch some water
from the well in the wood

Please do not
send me out alone

Not in the darkness on my own

Now shut your face or
I'll forget to be nice!

You heard me ask for something
And I never ask twice

Wakey-wakey, we're opening.

I love you.
I love you so much.

(SINGING)
My band of soaks

My den of dissolutes

My dirty jokes

Ugh!

My always pissed as newts

My sons of whores

No, no, no.
Not tonight.

(SINGING)
Spend their lives in my inn

Wakey-wakey.
Good boy, good boy,
good boy.

(SINGING)
Homing pigeons homing in

They fly through my doors

And they crawl out
on all fours

Daddy, here.

Thank you, darling.

Such a gentleman.

(SINGING) Welcome, monsieur,
sit yourself down

And meet the best
innkeeper in town

As for the rest
All of them crooks

Rooking the guests
And cooking the books

Seldom do you see

Honest men like me

A gent of good intent
who's content to be

Master of the house
Doling out the charm

Ready with a handshake
and an open palm

Tells a saucy tale
Makes a little stir

Customers appreciate
a bon viveur

Glad to do a friend a favor

Doesn't cost me to be nice

But nothing gets you nothing
Everything has
got a little price

Master of the house
Keeper of the zoo

Ready to relieve them
of a sou or two

Watering the wine
Making up the weight

Picking up their knick-knacks
When they can't see straight

Everybody loves a landlord
Everybody's bosom friend

I do whatever pleases
Jesus! Won't I bleed 'em
in the end!

ALL: Master of the house!
Quick to catch your eye

Never wants a passerby
to pass him by!

Servant to the poor
Butler to the great

Comforter, philosopher
and lifelong mate

Everybody's boon companion

Everybody's chaperone

But lock up your valises
Jesus! Won't I
skin you to the bone!

Food beyond compare
Food beyond belief

Mix it in a mincer
And pretend it's beef

Kidney of a horse
Liver of a cat

(MEOWS)

Filling up the sausages
with this and that

Residents are
more than welcome

Bridal suite is occupied

Reasonable charges
Plus some little
extras on the side

Oh, Santa!

Charge 'em for the lice
Extra for the mice

Two percent for
looking in the mirror twice

Hand it over!
Here a little slice,
there a little cut

Three percent for sleeping
with the windows shut

When it comes
to fixing prices

There are a lot
of tricks I knows

How it all increases
All those bits and pieces

Jesus!
It's amazing how it grows

(LAUGHING)

Sorry, love.
I must get
something done about that.

(SINGING)
I used to dream
that I would meet a prince

But, God almighty

Have you seen
what's happened since?

What? What?

"Master of the house"
isn't worth my spit!

Comforter, philosopher
and lifelong shit!

Cunning little brain

Regular Voltaire

Thinks he's quite a lover
but there's not much there

What a cruel trick of nature

Landed me with such a louse

God knows how I've lasted
living with this
bastard in the house

ALL: Master of the house!

Master and a half!

ALL: Comforter, philosopher

Don't make me laugh

ALL: Servant to the poor
Butler to the great

Hypocrite and
toady and inebriate!

ALL: Everybody
bless the landlord!

Everybody
bless his spouse!

Everybody raise a glass!

(ALL CHEER)

Raise it up
the master's arse!

(ALL CHEER)

ALL: Everybody raise a glass
to the master of the house

I love you, too.

(LAUGHING)

(SINGING) Everybody
bless the landlord

(DONKEY BRAYS)

(COSETTE SINGING)

(GASPS)

(SINGING) Hush now
Do not be afraid of me

Don't hide
Show me where you live

Tell me, my child,
what is your name?

I'm called Cosette

(GASPS)

Mademoiselle.
Can I help you
with your bucket?

Whoa!

(SINGING) I found her
wandering in the wood

This little child,
I found her
trembling in the shadows

And I am here
to help Cosette

I will settle any debt
you may think proper

I will pay what I must pay

To take Cosette away

I love you.

(SINGING)
This is a duty I must heed

(MOUTHING)

And there is
a promise I have made

For I was blind
to one in need

I did not see
what stood before me

Now your mother is with God

(GASPS)

Her suffering is over

And I speak here
with her voice

And I stand here in her place

Come on.

And from this day,
and evermore

Let me take
your coat, monsieur

Cosette shall live
in my protection

You are very welcome here

I will not forget my vow

Take a drink

Take a chair

Cosette shall
have a father now

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
talk of debt?

Let's not haggle
for darling Colette

Cosette.
Cosette

Dear Fantine,
gone to rest

Have we done for her
child what is best?

I think so.

Shared our bread,
shared each bone

Treated her like
she's one of our own

Yes, our own.

Like our own,
monsieur!

The cost adds up.

Your feelings do
you credit, sir

And I will ease
the parting blow

Let us not talk of bargains
and bones and greed

Now may I say we are agreed?

That would
quite fit the bill

If she hadn't
so often been ill

Little dear, cost us dear

Medicines are expensive,
monsieur

(BOTH COUGHING)

Not that we begrudged a sou

It's no more than
we Christians must do

Than we Christians may do

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

Farewell, Courgette!

It's "Cosette."
Cosette.

And, open.

It's for you.

(SINGING)
Where I go, you will be

Will you be
like a papa to me?

Yes, Cosette
This is true

I'll be father
and mother to you

(GRUNTS)

Not bad.
Not enough!

There's a copper at the door
What the devil have you done?

Where's the child Cosette?

(SINGING)
She's gone with a gent

Didn't tell us
where they went

Didn't leave
his home address

You're a bloody fool
Look at what we got

Should've struck the iron
Struck it while it's hot!

Next time round, I promise
I'm gonna get the lot

Okay?

(SINGING)
Suddenly you're here

Suddenly it starts

Can two anxious hearts
beat as one?

Yesterday I was alone

Today you are beside me

Something still unclear

Something not yet here
has begun

Suddenly the world
seems a different place

Somehow full of grace
Full of light

How was I to know
that so much hope

Was held inside me?

What is passed is gone

Now we journey on
through the night

How was I to know at last
That happiness
can come so fast?

Trusting me the way you do

I'm so afraid of failing you

Just a child who cannot know
That danger follows where I go

There are shadows everywhere

And memories I cannot share

Nevermore alone

Nevermore apart

You have warmed my heart
like the sun

You have brought
the gift of life
And love so long denied me

Suddenly I see

What I could not see

Something suddenly

Has begun

(SIGHS CONTENTEDLY)

Halt!
Let's see your papers.

Where are you traveling?

Cosette. Cosette.

(SHUSHING)

Give me the doll.

Come.

JAVERT: Valjean!

Come, Cosette.
Come quickly!

Come on.

24601!

(URGING HORSE)

(GASPS)

Cosette. I've got you.
Come, come.

Valjean!

(PANTING)

(NUNS SINGING)

Who's there?

Please, monsieur.

I need your help.

Please, please.

Monsieur le Mayor?

Who are you?

Fauchelevent.

I fell under my cart.

You saved my life, monsieur.

Fauchelevent.

We need a place of sanctuary,
this child and I.

We need to disappear.

(SINGING) We'll give thanks
for what is granted

What the sisters may ordain

Come.

Here we pray
for new beginnings

Here our lives
can start again

(SINGING) There,
out in the darkness

A fugitive running

Fallen from God

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

Those who follow
the path of the righteous

Shall have their reward

And if they fall
as Lucifer fell

The flames! 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 flames!

And so it must be,
for so it is written

On the doorway to paradise

That those who falter
and those who fall

Must pay the price

Lord, let me find him

That I may see him

Safe behind bars!

I will never rest till then!

This I swear

This I swear by the stars!

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

Come on, boys!

(BOYS GRUNTING)

Come on.

BEGGARS' CHORUS: (SINGING)
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!

How 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 Michel

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!

CHORUS: Look down and show
some mercy if you can!

Look down, look down
upon your fellow man

Wait, Gavroche!

There was a time
we killed the king

We tried to change
the world too fast

Now we have got another king

He is no better than the last

This is the land
that fought for liberty

Now when we fight,
we fight for bread!

Here is
the thing about equality

Everyone's equal
when they're dead

Take your place!
Take your chance!

Vive la France!
Vive la France!

CHORUS: Look down and show
some mercy if you can!

Look down, look down
upon your fellow man

When's this gonna end?

BEGGAR: When we gonna live?

Something's gotta happen now

CHORUS: Something's gotta give

It'll come,
it'll come, it'll come
It'll come, it'll come

Where are
the leaders of the land?

Where is the king
who runs this show?

Only one man,
General Lamarque

Speaks for
the people here below!

Lamarque is ill
and fading fast

Won't last a week out,
so they say

With all the anger
in the land

How long before
the Judgment Day?

Before we cut
the fat ones down to size?

MAN 1: Death to the king!

MAN 2: Liberty for France!

CHORUS: (SINGING)
Before the barricades arise?

MAN 3: Death to the king!

(CROWD CLAMORING)

Tell your friends.
We come tomorrow.

We meet here at
General Lamarque's house.
Bring your friends.

Vive General Lamarque!

Marius!
Grandfather!

Have you any idea
of the shame you
bring on our family?

An utter disgrace.

Marius.

Vive General Lamarque!
Vive General Lamarque!

ALL: Vive la France!
Vive la France!

Vive la France!
Vive la France!

(SINGING) Hey there, monsieur,
what's new with you?

Plotting to
overthrow the state?

You still
pretending to be poor

Come on,
I know your grandpa's rich

Won't take a franc
that I've not earned

All of those bridges
have been burned

I like the way
you talk, monsieur!

I like the way
you always tease

Little he knows

Little he sees

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

Here, take this.

Eponine!

(SINGING) Everyone here,
you know your place

Brujon, Babet, Claquesous

You, Montparnasse,
watch for the law

With Eponine, take care

You turn on the tears
No mistakes, my dears

(FAKE BABY CRY)

Please, monsieur,
come this way

Here's a child
that ain't eaten today

Save a life, spare a sou

God rewards all
the good that you do

Wait a bit!
Know that face!

Ain't the world
a remarkable place!

Men like me don't forget

You're the bastard
that borrowed Colette!

Cosette.
Whatever.

What is this?
Are you mad?

No, monsieur,
you don't know what you say!

You know me! I know you!

And you'll pay
what we're due

And you'd better dig deep

'Cause she doesn't
come cheap

THENARDIER: Brujon.

It's the police! Disappear!

Run for it! It's Javert!

Cosette!
COSETTE: Papa.

Another brawl in the square
Another stink in the air

Was there a witness to this?
Well, let him speak to Javert!

Monsieur,
these streets are not safe
But let these vermin beware

We'll see that
justice is done

Look upon
this fine collection

Crawled from
underneath a stone

This swarm of
worms and maggots

Could have picked you
to the bone

I know this man over here
I know his name and his trade

And on your witness, monsieur,
I'll see him suitably paid

But where's
the gentleman gone?

And why on Earth
would he run?

You will have
a job to find him

He's not all he seems to be

And that girl
he trails behind him

Is the child
he stole from me

Yeah, and me.

Yeah, both of us.

(SINGING) Could it be
he's that old jailbird
That the tide now washes in?

Heard my name
and started running
All the omens point to him

In the absence of a victim

Dear Inspector, may I go?

And remember

(SPITS)

When you've nicked him

It was me what told you so

Let the old man
keep on running

I will run him off his feet!

Everyone, about your business
Clear this garbage
off the street

Cosette! Now I remember

Cosette! How can it be?

We were children together

Look what's become of me

Eponine! Who was that girl?

That bourgeois
two-a-penny thing

Eponine, find her for me!

What will you give me?

Anything!

Got you all excited now
But God knows
what you see in her

Aren't you all delighted now?

No,
I don't want your money, sir

Eponine, do this for me

Discover where she lives

But careful how you go
Don't let your father know

Eponine! I'm lost
until she's found

You see? I told you so

There's lots of things
I know

(LAUGHING)

'Ponine

She knows her way around

(SINGING)
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

We need a sign to
rally the people

To call them to arms

And to bring them in line!

Marius, wake up!
What's wrong today?

You look as if
you've seen a ghost

Some wine, and
say what's going on

A ghost, you say?
A ghost maybe

She was just
like a ghost to me

One minute there,
then she was gone

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 Juan

It is better
than an opera!

(LAUGHING)

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 yourself
What's the price
you might pay?

Is this simply a game
for a rich young boy to play?

The colors of the world
are 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!

Had you seen her today
you might know how it feels

To be struck to the bone
in a moment of
breathless delight!

Had you been there today
you might also have known

How your world may be changed
in just one burst of light

And what was right seems wrong

And what was wrong seems right

Red!

I feel my soul on fire!

Black!

My world if she's not there!

ALL: Red!

The color of desire!

ALL: Black!

The color of despair!

Marius,
you're no longer a child

I do not doubt
you mean it well

But now
there is a higher call

I know.

Who cares about
your lonely soul?

We strive
towards a larger goal

Our little lives
don't count at all!

Red!

ALL: The blood of angry men!

Black!

The dark of ages past!

Red!

A world about to dawn!

Black!

The night that ends at last!

Listen, everybody!

General Lamarque
is dead.

(SINGING) Lamarque,
his death is
the hour of fate

The people's man

His death is
the sign we await!

On his funeral day
they will honor his name

With the light of
rebellion ablaze in their eyes

From their candles of grief
we will kindle our flame

On the tomb of Lamarque
shall our barricade rise!

The time is here!

Let us welcome it gladly
with courage and cheer!

Let us take to the streets
with no doubt in our hearts

But a jubilant shout!

They will come one and all!

ALL: They will come
when we call!

(STUDENTS CHATTERING
INDISTINCTLY)

Did you find her?

(SINGING)
How strange

This feeling that
my life's begun at last

This change

Can people really
fall in love so fast?

What's the matter
with you, Cosette?

Have you been
too much on your own?

So many things unclear

So many things unknown

In my life

There are so many
questions and answers

That somehow seem wrong

In my life

There are times when
I catch in the silence

The sigh of a faraway song

And it sings

Of a world that I long to see
Out of reach

Just a whisper away
Waiting for me

Does he know I'm alive?
Do I know if he's real?

Does he see what I see?
Does he feel what I feel?

In my life

I'm no longer alone

Now the love in
my life is so near

Find me now

Find me here

Dear Cosette

You're such a lonely child

How pensive,
how sad you seem to me

Believe me,
were it within my power

I'd fill each passing hour

How quiet it must be,
I can see

With only me for company

There's so little I know
that I'm longing to know

Of the man that you were
in a time long ago

Please, Cosette.

There's so little you say
of the life you have known

Why you keep to yourself
Why you're always alone

So dark
So dark and deep

The secrets that you keep

In my life

Please forgive what I say
You are loving
and gentle and good

But Papa, dear Papa

In your eyes I am
still like that child
who was lost in a wood

No more words

No more words
It's a time that is dead

There are words

That are better unheard
Better unsaid

In my life

I'm no longer a child
and I yearn for
the truth that you know

Of the years, years ago

You will learn

Truth is given by God
to us all in our time

In our turn

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!

Eponine, you're the friend
who has brought me here

Thanks to you
I'm at one with the gods

And heaven is near!

And I soar through
a world that is new
That is free

Every word that he says
is a dagger in me

In my life

There's been no one
like him anywhere

Anywhere, where he is

If he asked, I'd be his

BOTH: In my life

There is someone
who touches my life

Waiting near

Waiting here

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 mademoiselle

Won't you say?

Will you tell?

A heart full of love

No fear, no regret

My name is Marius Pontmercy

And mine's Cosette

Cosette,
I don't know what to say

Then make no sound

I am lost

I am found

A heart full of love

He was never mine to lose

BOTH: A heart full of you

A single look
and then I knew

Why regret
what could not be?

I knew it, too

These are words
he'll never say

Not to me

From today

Not to me
Not for me

Every day

His heart full of love

BOTH: For it isn't a dream

He will never feel this way

BOTH: Not a dream after all

VALJEAN: Cosette?

Cosette,
what are you doing?

I told you to stay inside.

(SIGHS)

(SINGING)
Who is this hussy?

It's your brat Eponine!
Don't you know your own kid?

Why's she hanging
about here?

Eponine, get on home
You're not needed in this

We're enough here
without you

I know this house,
I tell you

There's nothing here for you

Just the old man and the girl

They live ordinary lives

Don't interfere
You've got some gall

Take care, young miss
You've got a lot to say

I'm gonna scream!
I'm gonna warn them here!

One little scream
and you'll regret it
for a year!

(SCREAMING)

My God, Cosette!

(SINGING) You wait, my girl!
You'll rue this night!

I'll make you scream!
(SPITS)

You'll scream all right!

(GROANS)

OFFICER: Police!

(SINGING)
Must be Javert

He's found my cover at last

I've got to get Cosette away

We'll go to our apartment
at Rue de l'Homme Armé,
it's safer there.

Then I'll arrange
our passage to England.
No.

(SINGING) Hurry, Cosette!
Prepare to leave
Say no more

Tonight we'll away

Please, Papa, we can't!
Hurry, Cosette!

It's time to
close another door
and live another day!

Get dressed,
we're leaving. Now!

Please, no!

(RAINDROPS PATTERING)

(SINGING) 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

(SOBS)

I love him

I love him

I love him

But only on my own

(SINGING)
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

I did not live until today

How can I live
when we are parted?

One day more

BOTH: Tomorrow
you'll be worlds away

And yet with you
my world has started

One more day all on my own

BOTH: Will we ever meet again?

One more day
with him not caring

BOTH: I was born
to be with you

What a life
I might have known

BOTH: And I swear
I will be true

But he never saw me there

One more day
before the storm

Do I follow
where she goes?

At the barricades
of freedom!

Shall I join
my brothers there?

When our ranks
begin to form

Do I stay and do I dare?

Will you take
your place with me?

ALL: The time is now!

The day is here!

One day more!

One day more to revolution
We will nip it in the bud

We'll be ready
for these schoolboys

They will wet themselves
with blood!

One day more!

Watch 'em run amuck

Catch 'em as they fall

BOTH: Never know your luck
when there's a free-for-all

Here's a little dip

There a little touch

BOTH: Most of them are goners
So they won't miss much!

ALL: 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

Do you hear the people sing?

My place is here!

I fight with you!

One day more!

We will join
these people's heroes

We will follow
where they go

One more day all on my own

We will learn
their little secrets

We will know
the things they know

One day more!

BOTH: Tomorrow
you'll be worlds away

One more day
to revolution

What a life
I might have known

JAVERT: We will nip it
in the bud

BOTH: And yet with you
my world has started

We'll be ready
for these schoolboys

Tomorrow
will be far away

ALL: Tomorrow
is the judgment day

Tomorrow we'll discover

What our God in heaven
has in store

One more dawn!

One more day!

One day more!

(DRUMS BEATING RHYTHMICALLY)

CROWD: (SINGING)
Do you hear the people sing

Singing the 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!

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?

Then join in the fight

That will give you
the right to be free!

Do you hear the people sing

Singing the 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!

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!

Do you hear the people sing

Singing the 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!

(BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY)

CAVALRY OFFICER: Halt!

Draw!

(CROWD EXCLAIMS)

(SHOUTING)

She's an innocent woman!

Murderer!

(CROWD CLAMORING)

Come here, you!

Charge!

(CAVALRY OFFICERS YELLING)

Push them to the right.

(GROANS)

(SCREAMS)

Thank you, sir.
Thank you, monsieur.

To the barricades!

Vive la France!

MAN 1: Get to the barricade!

MARIUS: Come on!

MAN 2: Get down! Get down!

Go, go, go!

Get off your arse!
It's begun!

MAN 3: The barricade!

Sorry, madame. Thank you.
What are you doing?

We need as much furniture
as you can throw down!

Throw everything you have!

Below!

MAN 4: Watch yourself,
watch yourself.

(STUDENTS GRUNTING)

(COW MOOING)

Go on, boys!

No!

Thank you, madame.

I need a volunteer!

Someone who can
find out their plan
and when they will attack.

(SINGING)
I can find out the truth

I know their ways

Fought their wars
Served my time

In the days
Of my youth

See? The people unite!

I pray you're right

Dogs will bark

GAVROCHE: Fleas will bite!

They will do what is right

ENJOLRAS: Red,
the blood of angry men!

STUDENTS: Black,
the dark of ages past!

Red, a world about to dawn!

Black,
the night that ends at last!

JOLY: He's back!

(SINGING) Listen, my friends
I have done as I said

I have been to their lines
I have counted each man

I will tell what I can

Better beware
They have armies to spare

And our danger is real

We will need all our cunning
to bring them to heel

Have faith!

If you know what
their movements are
we'll spoil their game

There are ways that
a people can fight

We shall overcome
their power!

I have overheard their plans

There will be
no attack tonight

They intend to starve you out

Before they
start a proper fight

Concentrate their force

Hit us when it's light

Liar!

Good evening, dear Inspector
Lovely evening, my dear!

I know this man, my friends
His name's Inspector Javert!

So don't believe
a word he says because
none of it's true

This only goes to show
what little people can do

Bravo, little Gavroche
You're the top of the class

So what are we going to do
with this snake in the grass?

Take this man and throw him
in the tavern in there

The people will
decide your fate,
Inspector Javert

Shoot me now
or shoot me later

Every schoolboy
to his sport!

Death to each
and every traitor!

I renounce
your people's court!

We keep looking forward!

(YELLS)

(THUDS)

(ALL PANTING)

(SOLDIERS MARCHING
IN DISTANCE)

MARIUS: To your positions.

ENJOLRAS: Move!

(ARMY COMMANDER
SHOUTING ORDERS)

MARIUS: Now, hold your fire.
Hold your fire.

ARMY OFFICER:
Front rank, kneel!

Save your gunpowder.

Take aim!

Get down.

Who's there?

French Revolution!

Fire!

COMBEFERRE: They're coming!

They're coming
over the barricades!

Get back!

Marius! No!

Marius!
What are you doing?

ENJOLRAS: Get down!

GAVROCHE: Marius, watch out!

Get down!

No!

Fall back!

Fall back,
or I blow the barricade!

Blow it up and
take yourself with it!

Christ!

(BREATHING HEAVILY)
And myself with it.

Back! Back!

(SIGHS IN RELIEF)

ENJOLRAS: Man the barricade!

What were you thinking,
Marius?

You could have
gotten us all killed!

COURFEYRAC: Marius,
you saved us all.

My life is not
yours to risk!

MARIUS: Eponine.
What are you doing?

I kept it from you.

It's from Cosette.

COURFEYRAC: The rain's
going to ruin the powder.

I'm sorry.

What have you done?

'Ponine.

(SINGING) Don't you fret,
Monsieur 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

But you will live, 'Ponine
Dear God above!

If I could close your wounds
with words of love

Just hold me now,
and let it be

Shelter me, comfort me

Hush-a-bye, dear Eponine

So don't you fret,
Monsieur Marius

You won't feel any pain
I don't feel any pain

A little fall of rain
A little fall of rain

Can hardly hurt you now
Can hardly hurt me now

I'm here

That's all I need to know

And I will stay with you
And you will keep me safe

Till you are sleeping
And you will keep me close

And rain

And rain

Will make the flowers

Will make the flowers

Grow

Gavroche, will you
do something for me?

Anything. Without you,
I'd have bitten the dust.

Letter from the barricade.

From the barricade?

I'll take it.

Something for me,
something for you.
Who needs charity?

Boy.

You stay away from there,
you understand?

(SINGING) "Dearest Cosette,
you have entered my soul

"And soon you will be gone

"Can it be only
a day since we met
and the world was reborn?

"If I should fall
in the battle to come
let this be my goodbye

"Now that I know
that you love...

"You love me as well
It is harder to die

"I pray that God
will bring me home
to be with you

"Pray for your Marius

"He prays for you"

(EXHALES)

Oh, God.

This is the day
that most I feared

Now a young man has appeared
to change my life

This Marius will take away
the treasure of my
autumn days to be his wife

But he could die tonight

I must find this boy

Don't shoot!
Don't shoot!

I come here
as a volunteer.

You see...

(SINGING) You see that
prisoner over there?

A volunteer like you!

A spy who calls
himself Javert!

He's going to get it, too!

COURFEYRAC: Get in there.
Get inside.

Don't kill him.
I know him.

Enemy marksman!

COMBEFERRE: On the roof!
On the roof!

(STUDENTS CLAMORING)

GAVROCHE: On the roof!

ENJOLRAS: Where are they?
Where are they?

We'll take the left.

MARIUS: We'll
take the right.

Eyes forward!

Eyes to the roofs,
eyes to the roofs.

Thank you, monsieur.

(SINGING) Give me
no thanks, monsieur
There's something you can do

If it is in my power

Give me the spy Javert!
Let me take care of him

Do what you have to do
The man belongs to you

No. Enjolras.

(SINGING) We meet again

You've hungered for
this all your life

Take your revenge

How right you
should kill with a knife

Get out of here

Don't understand

Clear out of here

Once a thief, forever a thief

What you want,
you always steal

You would trade
your life for mine

Yes, Valjean, you want a deal

Shoot me now for all I care!

If you let me go, beware!
You'll still answer to Javert!

You are wrong and
always have been wrong

I'm a man
no worse than any man

And you are free and
there are no conditions

No bargains or petitions

There's nothing
that I blame you for

You've done your duty,
nothing more

If I come
out of this alive...

You will find me at
Rue de l'Homme Armé, number 5

No doubt our paths
will cross again.

(PISTOL FIRES)

(SINGING) Courfeyrac,
you take the watch

They may attack
before it's light

Everybody, keep the faith

For certain as
our banner flies
We are not alone

The people too must rise

Marius.

Rest.

(SINGING)
Drink with me

To days gone by!

ALL: To the life
that used to be

At the shrine of friendship
never say die

Let the wine of friendship
never run dry

Here's to you
and here's to me!

Do I care if I should die
now she goes across the sea?

Life without Cosette
means nothing at all

Would you weep, Cosette,
if I were to fall?

Would you weep, Cosette

For me?

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!

(WHISTLES)

Enjolras, the rain has
damaged the gunpowder.

We're low on ammunition.

We're the only
barricade left.

What?

We're the only ones left.

(SINGING) The people
have not stirred

We are abandoned by those
who still live in fear

Let us not waste lives

Let all who wish to

Go from here

GAVROCHE: Do you hear
the people sing

Singing the song of angry men?

It is the music of a people
who will not be slaves again

ALL: When the beating
of your heart echoes
the beating of the drums

There is a life about to start
when tomorrow comes!

Enjolras,
we need more ammunition.

I'm going into the colonnade.
There are dead bodies there,
dry ammunition.

FEUILLY: The gunpowder
is wet through.

ENJOLRAS: Let's round it up.
Let's get everything out here.

(SINGING) Little people know
when little people fight

We may look easy pickings

Gavroche.

But we've got some bite!

Come here.

So never kick a dog
because he's just a pup

(RIFLE FIRES)

Gavroche!

We'll fight like 20 armies
and we won't give up

Gavroche! Gavroche,
what are you doing?

COMBEFERRE:
Someone pull him back!
(GROANS)

You dirty bastard!

So you'd better
run for cover

When the pup...

Grows...

(SOBBING)

ARMY OFFICER: (SINGING)
You at the barricades,
listen to this!

The people of Paris
sleep in their beds!

You have no chance

No chance at all

Why throw your lives away?

Let us die facing our foes

Make them bleed while we can

Make them pay through the nose

Make them pay for every man

Let others rise
to take our place

Until the Earth is free!

Cannons!

Quick as you can! Come on!

Look lively!

Far right first.

Wait for it!

Fire!

Marius.

They're bringing
in replacements.

ARMY OFFICER: Second cannon!

Fire!

ARMY OFFICER: Fire!

Take aim!

Fire!

VALJEAN: Take cover, boy!

There's more men!
There's more men, Enjolras!

Cannons ready!

Fire!

Cannons ready!

And fire!

Advance!

COURFEYRAC: Watch out!

(GROANS)

Please!

STUDENT: Open the door!

Please!

We need the door!
We need to barricade
the door!

(STUDENTS SHOUTING)

Marius! Marius!

Take positions!

ARMY OFFICER: Steady, lads!

ENJOLRAS: Go!
COURFEYRAC: They're coming!

(STUDENTS SHOUTING
IN DISTANCE)

(SCREAMING)

(GLASS SHATTERING)

(PANTING)

(GRUNTS)

(GROANING)

(GRUNTING)

(EXCLAIMS IN DISTRESS)

Thank you!

Long live the revolution!

Here's a pretty ring.

Oh.

Hello.

(YELPS)

You're alive! I saved you!

You!

(PANTING)

How do I get out of here?
It's that way!

All the way down
and to the left!

(GROANING)

(GRUNTS)

(SIGHS IN RELIEF)

(PANTING)

(SINGING) It's you, Javert
I knew you
wouldn't wait too long

The faithful servant
at his post once more

This man's done no wrong
He needs a doctor's care

I warned you
I would not give in!
I won't be swayed!

Another hour yet
Then I'm yours

All our debts are paid

The man of mercy comes again
And talks of justice!

Come, time is running short!

Look down, Javert

He's standing in his grave!

One more step
and you die.

(SINGING) 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 live in
the debt of a thief!

Damned if I 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!

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 that world

From the world of Jean Valjean

There is nowhere I can turn

There is no way to go on

TURNING WOMAN 1: (SINGING)
Did you see them
going off to fight?

TURNING WOMAN 2:
Children of the barricade
who didn't last the night

Did you see them
lying where they died?

Someone used to cradle them
and kiss them when they cried

Did you see them
lying side by side?

(SINGING) 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

And I can hear them now

The very words
that they have sung

Became their last communion

On this lonely barricade

At dawn

Oh, my friends,
my friends, forgive me

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 windows

Phantom shadows on the floor

Empty chairs at empty tables

Where my friends
will meet no more

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

(SINGING) Every day you walk
with stronger step

You walk with longer step
The worst is over

Don't think about it,
Marius!

With all the years
ahead of us!

I will never go away

And we will be
together every day

Every day

We'll remember that night

And the vow that we made

A heart full of love

She was never mine to keep

A night full of you

She is youthful, she is free

COSETTE: The words are old
but always true

Cosette, Cosette!

Love is
the garden of the young

COSETTE: I saw you waiting
and I knew

Thank God you are here

Waiting for you

Let it be

At your feet

Thank God you are home

Let it be

VALJEAN: A heart full of love

BOTH: And it wasn't a dream

This I give you this day

BOTH: Not a dream after all

Monsieur, this is a day
I never can forget

Is gratitude enough
for giving me Cosette?

Your home shall be with us
And not a day shall pass

But we will prove our love
To you, whom we shall call

A father to us both
A father to us all

Not another word, my son

There's something now
that must be done

There lived a man
whose name was Jean Valjean

He stole some bread to
save his sister's son

For 19 winters
he served his time

In sweat
he washed away his crime

Years ago

He broke parole and
lived a life apart

How could he tell Cosette
and break her heart?

Marius...

It's for Cosette
this must be faced

If he is caught,
she is disgraced

The time has come
to journey on

And from this day
he must be gone

Who am I?

Who am I?

You're Jean Valjean

Monsieur, you cannot leave

Whatever I tell
my beloved Cosette
She will never believe

Tell her
I've gone on a journey
A long way away

Tell her my heart was
too full for farewells

It is better this way

Promise me, monsieur
Cosette will never know

What I have spoken
Why I must go

For the sake of Cosette

It must be so

Thank you, Marius.

(SINGING) Where's he gone
without a word?

That wouldn't be
his way to go

Why so sudden,
why so strange?

(GROANING)
Oh, did he say
how long he'll be gone?

All he asked for me to say
is he's on a journey far away

He can't leave us now

How he breaks my heart

And we will never be apart

I promise you.

(JOYFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

The Baron and
Baroness du Thénard.

(SINGING)
Go away, Thenardier!

Do you think
I don't know who you are?

He's not fooled
Told you so

Show monsieur
what you've come here to show

Tell the boy what you know

Pity to disturb you
at a feast like this

But 500 francs
surely wouldn't come amiss

In God's name,
say what you have to say

He speaks
You pay!

What I saw, clear as light

Jean Valjean in
the sewers one night

Had this corpse on his back

Some boy he had killed
in a vicious attack

I was there, never fear

I even found me
this fine souvenir

I know this
This is mine

This is surely
some heavenly sign

Then it's true
Then I'm right

Jean Valjean was
my savior that night

Jean Valjean, the old con

You pay up
or I'll say where he's gone

Where is he?

Where is he?

The convent!

Cosette, come with me.
Come with me.

BOTH: (SINGING)
Watch the buggers dance
Watch 'em till they drop!

Keep your wits about you
and you'll 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!

How dare you!

(SINGING)
Alone I wait in the shadows

I count the hours
until I sleep

I dreamed a dream
Cosette stood by

It made her weep
to know I die

Alone at the end of the day

Upon this wedding night
I pray

Take these children, my Lord,
to Thy embrace

And show them grace

God on high

Hear my prayer

Take me now

To Thy care

Where You are

Let me be

Take me now

Take me there

Bring me home

(SIGHS)

Bring me home

(GROANS)

FANTINE: Monsieur,
I bless your name

I am ready, Fantine

Monsieur,
lay down your burden

At the end of my days

You raised my child in love

She's the best of my life

And you will be with God

Oh!

Oh...

(SOFTLY) Fantine.

(SINGING) Papa, Papa,
I do not understand

Are you all right?
Why did you go away?

(EXCLAIMS IN RELIEF)

Cosette, my child!
Am I forgiven now?

Thank God, thank God
I've lived to see this day!

It's you who must forgive
a thoughtless fool

It's you who must
forgive a thankless man

It's thanks to you
that I am living

And again I lay down
my life at your feet

Cosette,
your father is a saint

When they wounded me
He took me from the barricade

Carried like a babe

And brought me home to you

Now you are here

Again beside me

Now I can die in peace

For now my life is blessed

You will live, Papa
You're going to live

It's too soon
Too soon to say goodbye

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 the story

Of one who turned from hating

A man who only learned to love

When you were in his keeping

I know it, Papa.

Come with me

Where chains
will never bind you

I am ready, Fantine.

All your grief
At last, at last behind you

Lord in heaven

Look down on him in mercy

Forgive me all my trespasses

And take me to Your glory

FANTINE: Take my hand

I'll lead you to salvation

Take my love

For love is everlasting

ALL: And remember

The truth that once was spoken

To love another person

Is to see the face of God

CROWD: 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

We will live again in freedom

In the garden of the Lord

We will walk
behind the plowshare
We 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 we 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 we bring
when tomorrow comes!

(ALL VOCALIZING)

Tomorrow comes!

(TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYING)