Valjean's Soliloquy (What Have I Done?) Lyrics

VALJEANWhat have I done?Sweet Jesus, what have I done?Become a thief in the night!Become a dog on the run!And have I fallen so farAnd is the hour so lateThat nothing remains but the cry of my hate,The cies in the dark that nobody hearsHere where I stand at the turning of theyears?If there's another way to goI missed it twenty long years ago.My life was war that could never be wonThey gave me a number and murderdValjeanWhen they chained me and left me for deadJust for stealing a mouthful of bread.Yet why did I allow this manTo touch my soul and teach me love?He treated me like any other.He gave me his trust.He call me his brotherMy life he claims for Gos above.Can such things be?For I had come to hate this 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.Thsi is all I have known.One word form heim and I'd be backBeneath 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 have a soul.How does he know?What spirit comes to move my life?Is there another wa to go?I am reaching, but I fallAnd the night is closing in,And I stare into the void -To the whirlpool of my sin.I'll escape now form the worldFrom the world of Jean Valjean.Jean Valjean is nothing now.Another story must begin!HE TEARS UP HIS YELLOW TICKET-OF-LEAVE.