Javert`s Suicide lyrics

Artist  : Les Miserables 
Song : Javert`s Suicide
 
[Javert walks the deserted streets until he comes
to a bridge over the river Seine.]




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.....




[He throws himself into the swollen
river.]