whate have I done , sweet jesus , what have A done?
Become a theif in the night become a dog on the run!
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 is another way to go
I missed it twenty years ago
My life was a war that could never be won
They gave me a number and murdered Valjan .
When they chained me and left me for dead .
just for stealing a mouthful of bread !
Yet why A allow this man
to touch my soul and teach me love ?
He treated me like any other
He gave me trust
He called me brother
My life he claims for God above can such things be ?
For I had come to hate the world this word that 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'll 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 move to come my life?
Is there another way to go?
I am reaching , but I fall.
And the night s closing in ...
as I stare into the void
To the whirlpool of my sin
I scape now from that world
From the world of Jean Valjan.
Jean Valjan is nothing now!
Another story must begin!
Miserables
