Les Miserables movie - Castle on a Cloud lyrics

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Song by Cosette<br /><br>

[Young Cosette is working as a drudge in the Thénardier's inn at Montfermeil]<br>

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[YOUNG COSETTE]<br>

There is a castle on a cloud,<br>

I like to go there in my sleep,<br>

Aren't any floors for me to sweep,<br>

Not in my castle on a cloud.<br>

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There is a room that's full of toys,<br>

There are a hundred boys and girls,<br>

Nobody shouts or talks too loud,<br>

Not in my castle on a cloud.<br>

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There is a lady all in white,<br>

Holds me and sings a lullaby,<br>

She's nice to see and she's soft to touch,<br>

She says "Cosette, I love you very much."<br>

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I know a place where no one's lost,<br>

I know a place where no one cries,<br>

Crying at all is not allowed,<br>

Not in my castle on a cloud.<br>

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Oh help! I think I hear them now,<br>

and I'm nowhere near finished sweeping and<br>

scrubbing and polishing the floor.<br>

Oh, it's her! It's Madame!<br>

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[MME. THENARDIER]<br>

Now look who's here<br>

The little madam herself!<br>

Pretending once again she's been `so awfully good,'<br>

Better not let me catch you slacking<br>

Better not catch my eye!<br>

Ten rotten francs your mother sends me<br>

What is that going to buy?<br>

Now take that pail<br>

My little `Mademoiselle'<br>

And go and draw some water from the well!<br>

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We should never have taken you in in the first place<br>

How stupid the things that we do!<br>

Like mother like daughter, the scum of the street.<br>

Eponine, come my dear, Eponine, let me see you<br>

You look very well in that new little blue hat<br>

There's some little girls who know how to behave<br>

And they know what to wear<br>

And I'm saying thank heaven for that.<br>

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Still there Cosette?<br>

Your tears will do you no good!<br>

I told you fetch some water from the well in the wood!<br>

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[YOUNG COSETTE]<br>

Please do not send me out alone<br>

Not in the darkness on my own!<br>

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[MME. THENARDIER]<br>

Enough of that, or I'll forget to be nice!<br>

You heard me ask for something,<br>

And I never ask twice!<br>

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[Young Eponine pushes Cosette out. Thénardier says good night to his daughter as the inn fills up for the evening]<br>

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