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 watch 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 that world.
From the world of Jean Valjean
There is nowhere I can turn,
There is no way to go on!
