Fantine's Arrest Lyrics - Les Miserables Live - Les Miserables

[Bamatabois is a well dressed gentleman.] 

Bamatabois: 

Here's something new, I think I'll give it a try. 

Come closer you, I like to see what I buy! 

The usual price, for just one slice of your pie 

Fantine: 

I don't want you, no, no, M'sieur, let me go. 

Bamatabois: 

Is this a trick? I won't pay more! 

Fantine: 

No, not at all. 

Bamatabois: 

You've got some nerve, you little whore 

You've got some gall. 

[He hits her with his stick, she claws at his face, drawing blood.] 

Fantine: 

I'll kill you, you bastard, try any of that! 

Even a whore who has gone to the bad 

Won't be had by a rat! 

Bamatabois: 

By Christ you'll pay for what you have done 

This rat will make you bleed, you'll see! 

I guarantee, I'll make you suffer 

For this disturbance of the peace 

For this insult to life and property! 

Fantine: 

I beg you, don't report me, sir 

I'll do whatever you may want 

Bamatabois: 

Make your excuse to the police! 

[Javert enters, accompanied by constables.] 

Javert: 

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! 

In this nest of whores and vipers 

Let one speak who saw it all 

Who laid hands on this good man here? 

What's the substance of this brawl? 

Bamatabois: 

Javert, would you believe it? 

I was crossing from the park 

When this prostitute attacked me 

You can see she left her mark 

Javert: 

She will answer for her actions 

If you make a full report 

You may rest assured, M'sieur, 

That she will answer to the court. 

Fantine: 

There's a child who sorely needs me 

Please M'sieur, she's but that high 

Holy God, is there no mercy? 

If I go to jail she'll die! 

Javert: 

I have heard such protestations 

Every day for twenty 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. 

[Fantine gives a last despairing cry as she is arrested. Valjean as M. Madeleine emerges from the crowd.] 

Valjean: 

A moment of your time, Javert 

I do believe this woman's tale 

Javert: 

But M'sieur Mayor! 

Valjean: 

You've done your duty 

Let her be 

She needs a doctor, not a jail. 

Javert: 

But M'sieur Mayor! 

Fantine: 

Can this be? 

Valjean: 

Where will she end - 

This child without a friend? 

(to Fantine) I've seen your face before 

Show me some way to help you 

How have you come to grief 

In a place such as this? 

Fantine: 

M'sieur, 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 

I never did no wrong 

Valjean: 

Is it true, what I have done? 

Fantine: 

My daughter's close to dying 

Valjean: 

To an innocent soul? 

Fantine: 

If there's a God above 

Valjean: 

Had I only known then... 

Fantine: 

He'd let me die instead 

Valjean: 

In His name my task has just begun 

I will see it done! 

Javert: 

But M'sieur Mayor! 

Valjean: 

I will see it done! 

Javert: 

But M'sieur Mayor! 

Valjean: 

I will see it done!