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Who is this man? |
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What sort of devil is he |
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To have me caught in a trap |
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And chose to let me go free? |
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It was his hour at last |
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To put a seal on my fate |
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Wipe out the past |
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And wash me clean off the slate! |
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All it would take was a flick of his knife. |
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Vengeance was his and he gave me back my life! |
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Damned if I'll live in the debt of thief |
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Damned if I'll yield at the end of the chase |
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I am the law and the law is not mocked |
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I'll spit his pity right back in his face |
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There is nothing on Earth that we share |
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It is either Valjean or Javert! |
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How can I now allow this man |
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To hold dominion over me? |
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This desperate man that I have hunted |
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He gave me my life. He gave me freedom. |
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I should have parished by his hand |
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It was his right |
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It was my right to die as well |
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Instead I live.. but live in hell |
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And my thoughts fly apart |
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Can this man be believed? |
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Shall his sins be forgiven? |
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Shall his crimes be reprieved? |
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And must I now begin to doubt |
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Who never doubted all these years? |
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My heart is stone and still it trembles |
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The world I have known is lost in shadow |
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Is he from heaven or from hell? |
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And does he know |
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That granting me my life today |
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This man has killed me, even so? |
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I am reaching but I fall |
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And the stars are black and cold |
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As I stare into the void |
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Of a world that cannot hold |
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I'll escape now from that world |
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From the world of Jean Valjean |
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There is nowhere I can turn |
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There is no way to go on |
