Les Miserables - Javert's Suicide Lyrics

The Original Broadway Production
Les Miserables the Musical - Javert's Suicide Lyrics


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...


Other Album Songs: Les Miserables the Musical Songs with Lyrics


The Original Broadway Production
Les Miserables the Musical Lyrics


SYNOPSIS
Work Song
Valjean Arrested / Valjean Forgiven
What Have I Done?
At the End of the Day
I Dreamed a Dream
Lovely Ladies
Who Am I?
Come to Me (Fantine's Death)
Confrontation
Castle on a Cloud
Master of the House
The Thenardier Waltz of Treachery
Look Down
Stars
Red and Black
Do You Hear the People Sing?
In My Life
A Heart Full of Love
Plumet Attack
One Day More!
Upon These Stones (Building the Barricade)
On My Own
Upon These Stones (At the Barricade)
Javert at the Barricade / Little People
The First Attack
A Little Fall Of Rain
Drink With Me
Bring Him Home
Dog Eat Dog
Javert's Suicide
Turning
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
Wedding Chorale
Beggars At The Feast
Finale