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Do You Hear the People Sing?

Enjolras:
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

Combeferre:
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Courfeyrac:
Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!

All
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

Feuilly
Will you give all you can give
So that our banner may advance
Some will fall and some will live
Will you stand up and take your chance?
The blood of the martyrs
Will water the meadows of France!

All
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

In My Life

Cosette:
How strange
This feeling that my life's begun at last
This change,
Can people really fall in love so fast?
What's the matter with you, Cosette?
Have you been too much on your own?
So many things unclear
So many things unknown.

In my life
There are so many questions and answers
That somehow seem wrong
In my life
There are times when I catch in the silence
The sigh of a faraway song
And it sings
Of a world that I long to see
Out of reach
Just a whisper away
Waiting for me.

Does he know I'm alive?
Do I know if he's real?
Does he see what I see?
Does he feel what I feel?

In my life
I'm no longer alone
Now the love in my life
Is so near
Find me now, find me here!

Valjean:
Dear Cosette,
You're such a lonely child
How pensive, how sad you seem to me
Believe me, were it within my power
I'd fill each passing hour
How quiet it must be, I can see
With only me for company.

Cosette:
There's so little I know
That I'm longing to know
Of the child that I was
In a time long ago...
There's so little you say
Of the life you have known
Why you keep to yourself
Why we're always alone
So dark! So dark and deep...
The secrets that you keep!

In my life
I have all that I want
You are loving and gentle and good
But Papa, dear Papa,
In your eyes I am just like a child
Who is lost in a wood

Valjean:
No more words
No more words. It's a time that is dead
There are words
That are better unheard,
Better unsaid.

Cosette:
In my life
I'm no longer a child and I yearn
For the truth that you know
Of the years... years ago!

Valjean:
You will learn
Truth is given by God
To us all in our time
In our turn

Marius
In my life
She has burst like the music of angels
The light of the sun
And my life seems to stop
As if something is over
And something has scarcely begun.
Eponine
You're the friend who has brought me here
Thanks to you I am one with the gods
And Heaven is near!
And I soar through a world that is new that is free

Eponine: (to herself)
Every word that he says is a dagger in me!
In my life
There's been no one like him anywhere
Anywhere, where he is...
If he asked... I'd be his

Marius & Eponine: In my life
There is someone who touches my life
Marius: Waiting near
Eponine: Waiting here

A Heart Full of Love

Marius
A heart full of love
A heart full of song
I'm doing everything all wrong
Oh God, for shame
I do not even know your name
Dear Mad'moiselle
Won't you say?
Will you tell?

Cosette:
A heart full of love
No fear, no regret
Marius: My name is Marius Pontmercy
Cosette: And mine's Cosette
Marius: Cosette, I don't know what to say
Cosette: Then make no sound
Marius: I am lost
Cosette: I am found!

Marius: A heart full of light
Cosette: A night bright as day
Marius: And you must never go away
Cosette, Cosette
Cosette: This is a chain we'll never break
Marius: Do I dream?
Cosette: I'm awake!

Marius: A heart full of love
Cosette: A heart full of you
Marius: A single look and then I knew
Cosette: I knew it too
Marius: From today
Cosette: Every day
Cosette & Marius
For it isn't a dream
Not a dream after all.

Eponine: (Interjecting)
He was never mine to lose
Why regret what cannot be?
These are words he'll never say
Not to me...
Not to me...
Not to me...
His heart full of love
He will never feel this way...

The Attack on Rue Plumet

Eponine:
'Parnasse, what are you doing
So far out of our patch?

Montparnasse
This house, we're going to do it
Rich man, plenty of scratch
You remember he's the one
That got away the other day?
Got a brand upon his chest
Perhaps a fortune put away!

Eponine:
Oh Lord, somebody help me!
Dear God, what'll I do?
He'll think this is an ambush
He'll think I'm in it too!

What'll I do, what'll I say?
I've got to warn them here
I've got to find a way.

Thénardier:
This is his lair
I've seen the old fox around
He keeps himself to himself
He's staying close to the ground
I smell profit here!

Ten years ago
He came and paid for Cosette
I let her go for a song
It's time we settled the debt
This'll cost him dear

Brujon
What do I care
Who you should rob?
Gimme me my share
Finish the job!

Thénardier:
You shut your mouth
You'll get what's yours
Brujon (catching sight of Eponine)
What have we here?
Thénardier: (not recognizing her)
Who is this hussy?

Babet
It's your brat Eponine
Don't you know your own kid
Why's she hanging about you?
Thénardier:
Eponine, get on home
You're not needed in this
We're enough here without you

Eponine:
I know this house
I tell you there's nothing here for you
Just the old man and the girl
They live ordinary lives

Thénardier:
Don't interfere
You've got some gall
Take care, young miss,
You've got a lot to say!

Brujon: She's going soft
Claquesous: Happens to all
Montparnasse: Go home, 'Ponine,
Go home, you're in the way

Eponine: I'm gonna scream, I'm gonna warn them here.
Thénardier: One little scream and you'll regret it for a year.

Claquesous
What a palaver
What an absolute treat
To watch a cat and its father
Pick a bone in the street

Brujon: Not a sound out of you!
Eponine: Well I told you I'd do it, told you I'd do it...

Thénardier:
Make for the sewers, go underground!
Leave her to me, don't wait around
You wait my girl, you'll rue this night
I'll make you scream, you'll scream all right
Marius:
It was your cry sent them away
Once more 'Ponine saving the day
Dearest Cosette - my friend 'Ponine
Brought me to you, showed me the way!
Someone is near
Let's not be seen
Somebody's here!

Valjean:
My God, Cosette!
I heard a cry in the dark
I heard the shout of angry voices in the street.

Cosette:
That was my cry you heard, Papa,
I was afraid of what they'd do.
They ran away when they heard my cry.
Valjean:
Cosette, my child, what will become of you?

Cosette:
Three men I saw beyond the wall
Three men in shadow moving fast
Valjean:
This is a warning to us all
These are the shadows of the past

Must be Javert!
He's found my cover at last!
I've got to get Cosette away
Before they return!

We must get away from shadows
They will never let us be
Tomorrow to Calais...
And then a ship across the sea!
Hurry, Cosette, prepare to leave and say no more,
Tomorrow we'll away!
Hurry, Cosette, it's time to close another door
And live another day!

One Day More

Valjean:
One day more!
Another day, another destiny.
This never-ending road to Calvary;
These men who seem to know my crime
Will surely come a second time.
One day more!

Javert:
One more day to revolution,
We will nip it in the bud!
I will join these little schoolboys,
They will wet themselves with blood!

Valjean: One day more!

M. & Mme. Thénardier:
Watch 'em run amuck,
Catch 'em as they fall,
Never know your luck
When there's a free for all,
Here a little `dip'
There a little `touch'
Most of them are goners
So they won't miss much!

Students (2 Groups)
1: One day to a new beginning
2: Raise the flag of freedom high!
1: Every man will be a king
2: Every man will be a king
1: There's a new world for the winning
2: There's a new world to be won
All: Do you hear the people sing?
Marius: My place is here, I fight with you!

Valjean: One day more!