Valjean's Soliloquy (Live)

Valjean's Soliloquy - John Owen-Jones

What have I done sweet Jesus What have I done

Become a thief in the night Become a dog on the run

Have I fallen so far and is the so hour 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's another way to go I missed it twenty long years ago

My life was a war that could never be won

They gave me a number murdered Valjean

When the chained me and left me for dead

Just for stealing a mouthful of bread

Yet why did I allow that man to touch my soul and teach me love

He treated me like any other

He gave me his 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 world 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'd 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 had a soul How does he know

What spirit comes to move my life Is there another way to go

I am reaching but I fall and the night is closing in

As I stare into the void to the whirlpool of my sin

I'll escape now from that world from the world of Jean Valjean

Jean Valjean is nothing now Another story must begin