Javert's Suicide Lyrics - Les Miserables

[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 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 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.]