Look Down lyrics

Artist  : Les Miserables 
Song : Look Down
 


BEGGARS
Look down and see the beggars at your
feet
Look down and show some mercy if you
can
Look down and see the sweepings of the
street
Look down, look down,
Upon your
fellow man!

GAVROCHE
'Ow do you do? My
name's Gavroche.
These are my people. Here's
my patch.
Not much to look at, nothing
posh
Nothing that you'd call up to
scratch.
This is my school, my high
society
Here in the slums of Saint
Michele
We live on crumbs of humble
piety
Tough on the teeth, but what the
hell!
Think you're poor?
Think you're
free?
Follow me! Follow
me!

BEGGARS
Look down and show some
mercy if you can
Look down, look down, upon
your fellow man!

(An old beggar woman
finds a young prostitute occupying her
pitch)

OLD BEGGAR WOMAN
What you think
yer at?
Hanging round me pitch?
If you're
new around here, girl
You've got a lot to
learn!

YOUNG PROSTITUTE
Listen you old
bat...
Crazy bloody witch...
'Least I give
me customers
Some pleasure in
return!

OLD BEGGAR WOMAN
I know what
you give!
Give 'em all the pox!
Spread
around your poison
Till they end up in a
box.

PIMP
Leave the poor old
cow,
Move it, Madeleine.
She used to be no
better
Till the clap got to her
brain.

BEGGARS
When's it gonna
end?
When we gonna live?
Something's gotta
happen now or
Something's gonna give
It'll
come, it'll come, it'll come
It'll come, it'll
come, it'll come

ENJOLRAS
Where the
leaders of the land?
Where are the swells who
run this show?

MARIUS
Only one man -
and that's Lamarque
Speaks for these people
here below.

BEGGARS
See our children
fed
Help us in our shame
Something for a
crust of bread
In Holy Jesus'
name

URCHIN
In the Lord's Holy
name.

BEGGARS
In his name, in his name,
in his name...

MARIUS
Lamarque is ill
and fading fast!
Won't last the week out, so
they say.

ENJOLRAS
With all the anger
in the land
How long before the judgement
day?
Before we cut the fat ones down to
size?
Before the barricades
arise?

GAVROCHE
Watch out for old
Thenardier
All of his family's on the
make
Once ran a hash-house down the way
Bit
of a swine and no mistake
He's got a
gang
The bleeding layabout
Even his
daughter does her share
That's Eponine, she
knows her way about
Only a kid, but hard to
scare
Do we care?
Not a cuss
Long live
us.
Long live us!

BEGGARS
Look down
and show some mercy if you can
Look down, look
down upon your fellow man!