Javert`s Suicide Lyrics

Javert`s Suicide lyrics

[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 wash me clean off the slate!

 All it would take

 Was a flick of his knife

 Vengence was his

 And he gave me back my life!

 Damned if I'll live in the debt of a theif!

 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.]