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

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.]