Look Down Lyrics

Look Down lyrics

BEGGARS
Look down and see the beggars at your feet
Look down and show some
mercy if you can
Look down and see the sweepings of the street
Look down,
look down,
Upon your fellow man!

GAVROCHE
'Ow do you do? My name's
Gavroche.
These are my people. Here's my patch.
Not much to look at,
nothing posh
Nothing that you'd call up to scratch.
This is my school, my
high society
Here in the slums of Saint Michele
We live on crumbs of
humble piety
Tough on the teeth, but what the hell!
Think you're
poor?
Think you're free?
Follow me! Follow me!

BEGGARS
Look
down and show some mercy if you can
Look down, look down, upon your fellow
man!

(An old beggar woman finds a young prostitute occupying her
pitch)

OLD BEGGAR WOMAN
What you think yer at?
Hanging round me
pitch?
If you're new around here, girl
You've got a lot to
learn!

YOUNG PROSTITUTE
Listen you old bat...
Crazy bloody
witch...
'Least I give me customers
Some pleasure in return!

OLD
BEGGAR WOMAN
I know what you give!
Give 'em all the pox!
Spread around
your poison
Till they end up in a box.

PIMP
Leave the poor old
cow,
Move it, Madeleine.
She used to be no better
Till the clap got to
her brain.

BEGGARS
When's it gonna end?
When we gonna
live?
Something's gotta happen now or
Something's gonna give
It'll
come, it'll come, it'll come
It'll come, it'll come, it'll
come

ENJOLRAS
Where the leaders of the land?
Where are the swells
who run this show?

MARIUS
Only one man - and that's
Lamarque
Speaks for these people here below.

BEGGARS
See our
children fed
Help us in our shame
Something for a crust of bread
In
Holy Jesus' name

URCHIN
In the Lord's Holy name.

BEGGARS
In
his name, in his name, in his name...

MARIUS
Lamarque is ill and
fading fast!
Won't last the week out, so they say.

ENJOLRAS
With
all the anger in the land
How long before the judgement day?
Before we
cut the fat ones down to size?
Before the barricades
arise?

GAVROCHE
Watch out for old Thenardier
All of his family's
on the make
Once ran a hash-house down the way
Bit of a swine and no
mistake
He's got a gang
The bleeding layabout
Even his daughter does
her share
That's Eponine, she knows her way about
Only a kid, but hard to
scare
Do we care?
Not a cuss
Long live us.
Long live
us!

BEGGARS
Look down and show some mercy if you can
Look down,
look down upon your fellow man!