What Have I Done (valjean`s Soliloquy) Lyrics

What Have I Done (valjean`s Soliloquy) lyrics

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 is 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 murdered Valjean

 When they chained me and left me for dead

 Just for stealing a mouthful of bread

 

 Yet why did I allow that 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 this world

 This world which had 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 him 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 came to move my life?

 Is there another way to go?

 I am reaching, but I fall

 And the night is closing in

 And I stare into the void

 To the whirpool of my sin

 I'll escape now from the world

 From the world of Jean Valjean

 Jean Valjean is nothing now

 Another story must begin!

 

 [He tears up his yellow ticket-of-leave.]