Valjean's Soliloquy Lyrics - Les Miserables Live - Les Miserables

Valjean: 

What have I done, 

Sweet Jesus, what have I done? 

Become a thief in the night 

Become a dog on the run 

And have I fallen so far 

And as 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 twenty 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 

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 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 

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!