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Dawn of Anguish

Enjolras:
The people have not stirred
We are abandoned by those who still live in fear.
The people have not heard.
Yet we will not abandon those who cannot hear.
Let us not waste lives
Let all the women and fathers of children
Go from here.

Feuilly:
Drink with me to days gone by
Sing with me the songs we knew
All:
At the shrine of friendship
Raise your glass high
Let the wine of friendship
Never run dry
If I die, I die with you!

Second Attack

Enjolras: How do we stand, Feuilly? Make your report.
Feuilly: We've guns enough, but ammunition's short
Marius:
Let me go into the streets
There are bodies all around
Ammunition to be had
Lots of bullets to be found!

Enjolras: I won't let you go, it's too much of a chance!
Marius: The same is true for any man here!
Valjean: Let me go. He's no more than a boy.
I am old, I have nothing to fear.
Gavroche: You need somebody quicker and I volunteer!

Lesgles: Come back Gavroche, don't you dare!
Joly: Someone pull him down at once!
Gavroche: Look at me, I'm almost there!

The Death of Gavroche

Gavroche:
Little people know, when
Little people fight, we
May look easy pickings
But we've got some bite!
So never kick a dog
Because he's just a pup
We'll fight like twenty armies
And we won't give up
So you'd better run for cover
When the pup grows....

The Final Battle

Army Officer: (with loud hailer)
You at the barricade listen to this
The people of Paris sleep in their beds
You have no chance
No chance at all
Why throw your lives away?

Enjolras:
Let us die facing our foes
Make them bleed while we can
Combeferre:
Make 'em pay through the nose
Courfeyrac:
Make 'em pay for every man!
Enjolras:
Let others rise
To take our place
Until the earth is free!

Dog Eats Dog

Thénardier:
Here's a hint of gold
Stuck into a tooth
Pardon me M'sieur
You won't be needing it no more.
Shouldn't be too hard to sell.
Add it to the pile
Add it to the stock
Here among the sewer rats
A breath away from Hell
You get accustomed to the smell.

Well someone's got to clean 'em up, my friends
Bodies on the highway
Law and order upside down
Someone's got to collect their odds and ends
As a service to the town!

Here's a tasty ring
Pretty little thing
Wouldn't want to waste it
That would really be a crime
Thank you sir, I'm in your debt
Here's another toy
Take it off the boy
His heart's no longer going
And he's lived his little time
But his watch is ticking yet!

Well, someone's got to clean them up, my friends
Before the little harvest
Disappears into the mud
Someone's got to collect their odds and ends
When the gutters run with blood.

It's a world where the dogs eat the dogs
Where they kill for bones in the street
And God in His Heaven
He don't interfere
'Cause he's dead as the stiffs at my feet
I raise my eyes to see the heavens
And only the moon looks down
The harvest moon shines down!

The Sewers

Valjean:
It's you, Javert!
I knew you wouldn't wait too long
The faithful servant at his post once more!
This man's done no wrong,
And he needs a doctor's care.

Javert:
I warned you I would not give in
I won't be swayed

Valjean:
Another hour yet
And then I'm yours
And all our debts are paid.

Javert:
The man of mercy comes again
And talks of justice

Valjean:
Come, time is running short
Look down, Javert
He's standing in his grave
Give way, Javert
There is a life to save.

Javert: (overlapping)
Take him Valjean,
Before I change my mind
I will be waiting
24601.

Javert's Suicide

Javert:
Who is this man?
What sort of devil is he
To have me caught in a trap
And choose to let me go free?
It was his hour at last
To put a seal on my fate
Wipe out the past
And wash me clean off the slate!
All it would take
Was a flick of his knife.
Vengeance was his
And he gave me back my life!

Damned if I'll live in the debt of a thief!
Damned if I'll yield at the end of the chase.
I am the Law and the Law is not mocked
I'll spit his pity right back in his face
There is nothing on earth that we share
It is either Valjean or Javert!

How can I now allow this man
To hold dominion over me?
This desperate man whom I have hunted
He gave me my life. He gave me freedom.
I should have perished by his hand
It was his right.
It was my right to die as well
Instead I live... but live in hell.

And my thoughts fly apart
Can this man be believed?
Shall his sins be forgiven?
Shall his crimes be reprieved?

And must I now begin to doubt,
Who never doubted all these years?
My heart is stone and still it trembles
The world I have known is lost in shadow.
Is he from heaven or from hell?
And does he know
That granting me my life today
This man has killed me even so?

I am reaching, but I fall
And the stars are black and cold
As I stare into the void
Of a world that cannot hold
I'll escape now from the world
From the world of Jean Valjean.
There is nowhere I can turn
There is no way to go on....

Turning

Woman 1: Did you see them
Going off to fight?
Woman 2: Children of the barricade
Who didn't last the night?
Woman 3: Did you see them
Lying where they died?
Someone used to cradle them
And kiss them when they cried.
Woman 4: Did you see them lying side by side?

Woman 5: Who will wake them?
Woman 6: No one ever will.
Woman 2: No one ever told them
That a summer day can kill.
Woman 7: They were schoolboys
Never held a gun...
Fighting for a new world
That would rise up like the sun.
Woman 3: Where's that new world now the fighting's done?

Woman 4: Nothing changes.
Woman 7: Nothing ever will.
Woman 8: Every year another brat, another mouth to fill.
Woman 7: Same old story. What's the use of tears?
Woman 5: What's the use of praying if there's nobody who hears?
All Women: Turning, turning, turning, turning, turning
Through the years.

Turning, turning, turning through the years
Minutes into hours and the hours into years.
Nothing changes. Nothing ever can.
Round and round the roundabout and back where you began.
Round and round and back where you began!