Come To Me (fantine`s Death) Lyrics

Come To Me (fantine`s Death) lyrics

[Fantine is lying in a hospital bed, deleriously dreaming of her daughter
Cosette.]

 

 Fantine

 Cosette, it's turned so cold

 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.

 Hurry near, another day is dying

 Don't you hear, the winter wind is crying?

 There's a darkness which comes without a warning

 But I will sing you lullabyes and wake you in the morning.

 

 [Valjean enters.]

 

 Valjean

 Oh, Fantine, our time is running out

 But Fantine, I swear this on my life

 

 Fantine

 Look, M'sieur, where all the children play

 

 Valjean

 Be at peace, be at peace evermore.

 

 Fantine

 My Cosette...

 

 Valjean

 Shall live in my protection

 

 Fantine

 Take her now

 

 Valjean

 Your child will want for nothing

 

 Fantine

 Good M'sieur, you come from God in Heaven.

 

 Valjean

 And none will ever harm Cosette

 As long as I am living.

 

 Fantine

 Take my hand,

 The night grows ever colder.

 

 Valjean

 Then I will keep you warm.

 

 Fantine

 Take my child, I give her to your keeping.

 

 Valjean

 Take shelter from the storm

 

 Fantine

 For God's sake, please stay till I am sleeping

 And tell Cosette I love her

 And I'll see her when I wake...

 

 [She dies with a smile; Javert arrives.]