Javert's Suicide

[00:00.67] {JAVERT}

[00:11.04] Who is this man? What sort of devil is he?

[00:13.16] To have me caught in a trap and choose to let me go free?

[00:15.82] It was his hour at last to put a seal on my fate,

[00:18.49] Wipe out the past, and wash me clean off the slate.

[00:20.88] All it would take was a flick of his knife.

[00:23.53] Vengeance was his and he gave me back my life!

[00:28.84] Damned if I'll live in the debt of a thief

[00:30.97] Damned if I'll yield at the end of the chase

[00:33.63] I am the Law and the Law is not mocked

[00:36.02] I'll spit his pity right back in his face

[00:37.88] There is nothing on earth that we share

[00:40.55] It is either Valjean or Javert!

[00:55.15] How can I now allow this man

[01:00.21] To hold dominion over me?

[01:04.98] This desperate man that I have hunted

[01:09.50] He gave me my life. He gave me freedom.

[01:14.82] I should have perished by his hand

[01:19.60] It was his right.

[01:24.38] I was my right to die as well.

[01:29.16] Instead I live -- but live in hell.

[01:34.21] And my thoughts fly apart.

[01:38.19] Can this man be believed?

[01:42.17] Shall his sins be forgiven?

[01:46.42] Shall his crimes be reprieved?

[01:57.30] And must I now begin to doubt,

[02:01.56] Who never doubted all those years?

[02:06.34] My heart is stone and still it trembles.

[02:10.33] The world I have known is lost in shadow.

[02:15.39] Is he from heaven or from hell?

[02:19.89] And does he know

[02:24.14] That, granting me my life today,

[02:28.62] This man has killed me even so?

[02:34.36] I am reaching but I fall

[02:39.02] And the stars are black and cold

[02:43.52] As I stare into the void

[02:48.31] Of a world that cannot hold

[02:52.56] I'll escape now from that world

[02:56.03] From the world of Jean Valjean.

[02:59.74] There is nowhere I can turn

[03:03.73] There is now way to go on...