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Les Miserables
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CHORUS
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Look down, look down
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Don't look 'em in the eye
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Look down, look down
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You're here until you die
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1ST CONVICT
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The sun is strong
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It's hot as hell below
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CHORUS
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Look down, look down
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there's twenty years to go.
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2ND CONVICT
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I've done no wrong
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Sweet Jesus, hear my prayer
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CHORUS
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Look down, look down
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Sweet Jesus doesn't care
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3RD CONVICT
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I know she'll wait
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I know that she'll be true
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CHORUS
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Look down, look down
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They've all forgotten you
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4TH CONVICT
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When I get free
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You won't see me
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Here for dust
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CHORUS
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Look down, look down
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Don't look 'em in the eye.
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5TH CONVICT
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How long, O Lord
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Before you let me die?
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CHORUS
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Look down, look down
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You'll always be a slave
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Look down, look down
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You're standing in your grave.
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JAVERT
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Now bring me prisoner 24601
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Your time is up
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And your parole's begun
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You know what that means.
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VALJEAN
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Yes, it means I'm free.
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JAVERT
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NO! It means you get
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Your yellow ticket-of-leave
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You are a thief.
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VALJEAN
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I stole a loaf of bread.
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JAVERT
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You robbed a house.
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VALJEAN
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I broke a window pane.
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My sister's child was close to death
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And we were starving.
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JAVERT
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You will starve again
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Unless you learn the meaning of the law.
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VALJEAN
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I know the meaning of those 19 years
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A slave of the law.
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JAVERT
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Five years for what you did
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The rest because you tried to run
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Yes, 24601.
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VALJEAN
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My name is Jean Valjean!
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JAVERT
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And I'm Javert!
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Do not forget my name
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Do not forget me
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24601
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CHORUS
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Look down, look down
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You'll always be a slave
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Look down, look down
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You're standing in your grave.
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VALJEAN
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Freedom is mine. The earth is still.
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I feel the wind. I breathe again.
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And the skies clear.
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The earth is waking.
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Drink from the pool. How clean the taste.
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Never forget the years, the waste.
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Nor forgive them
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For what they've done.
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They are the guilty- every one.
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The day begins...
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And now let's see
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What this new world,
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Will do for me!
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FARMER
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You'll have to go
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I'll pay you off for the day
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Collect your bits and pieces there
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And be on your way.
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VALJEAN
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You have given me half
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What the other men get
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This handful of tin
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Wouldn't buy my sweat!
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LABOURER
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You broke the law
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It's there for people to see
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Why should you get the same
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As honest men like me?
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VALJEAN
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Now every door is closed to me
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Another jail. Another key. Another Chain.
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For when I come to any town
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They check my papers
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And they find the mark of Cain.
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In their eyes
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I see their fear
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"We do not want you here."
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INNKEEPERS WIFE
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My rooms are full
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And I've no supper to spare
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I'd like to help a stranger
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All we want is to be fair.
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VALJEAN
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I will pay in advance
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I will sleep in a barn
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You see how dark it is
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I'm not some kind of dog.
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INNKEEPER
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You leave my house!
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Or feel the weight of my rod.
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We're law-abiding people here
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Thanks be to God.
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VALJEAN
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And now I know how freedom feels
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The jailer always at your heels
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It is the law!
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Ths piece of paper in my hand
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It makes me cursed throughout the land
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It is the law!
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Like a curse
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I walk the street,
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The dirt beneath their feet...
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BISHOP
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Come in, Sir, for you are weary
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And the night is cold out there.
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Though our lives are vey humble
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What we have, we have to share.
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There is wine here to revive you.
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There is bread to make you strong.
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There's a bed to rest 'til morning.
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Rest from pain, and rest from wrong.
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VALJEAN
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He let me eat my fill.
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I had the lion's share.
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This silver in my hand
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Costs twice what I had earned
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In all those nineteen years-
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That lifetime of despair
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And yet he trusted me-
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The old fool trusted me-
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He'd done his bit of good
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I played the greatful serf
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And thanked him like I should.
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But when the house was still,
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I got up in the night
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Took the silver,
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Took my flight!
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CONSTABLE 1
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Tell his reverence your story.
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CONSTABLE 2
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Let us see if he's impressed.
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CONSTABLE 1
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You were lodging here last night.
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CONSTABLE 2
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You were the honest Bishop's guest.
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And than out of Christian goodness.
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When he learned about your plight
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CONSTABLE 1
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You mantain he made a present of this
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sliver
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BISHOP
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That is right.
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But my friend you left so early,
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Surely something slipped your mind.
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You forgot I gave these also.
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Would you leave the best behind?
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So, Messieurs, you may release him
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For this man has spoken true.
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I commend you for your duty
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Now God's blessing go with you.
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(to VALJEAN) But remember this, my brother
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See in this some higher plan.
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You must use this precious silver
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To become an honest man.
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By the witness of the martyrs
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By the Passion and the Blood
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God has raised you out of darkness
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I have bought your soul for God!
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