Valjean's Soliloquy - Live

What 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 far and is the hour so late
 That nothing remains but the cry of my hate?
 The cries in the dark that nobody hears
 Here I stand at the turning of the years
 If there's another way to go
 I missed it 20 long years ago
 My life was a war that could never be won
 They gave me a number and murdered Valjean
 When they chained me and left me for dead
 Just for stealing a mouthful of bread!
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 Yet why did I allow this man
 To touch my soul and teach me love?
 He treated me like any other
 He gave me his trust, he called me brother
 My life he claims for God above
 Can such things be?
 For I had come to hate the 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!
 This is all I have known!
 One word from him and I'd be back
 Beneath 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 way to go?
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 I am reaching, but I fall
 And the night is closing in
 As I stare into the void
 To the whirlpool of my sin!
 I'll escape now from that world
 From the world of Jean Valjean!
 Jean Valjean is nothing now!
 Another story must begin!