Les Miserables movie - Javert's Suicide lyrics

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Song by Javert<br /><br>

(Javert walks the deserted streets until he comes to a bridge over the river Seine)<br>

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JAVERT<br>

Who is this man?<br>

What sort of devil is he<br>

To have me caught in a trap<br>

And choose to let me go free?<br>

It was his hour at last<br>

To put a seal on my fate<br>

Wipe out the past<br>

And wash me clean off the slate!<br>

All it would take<br>

Was a flick of his knife.<br>

Vengeance was his<br>

And he gave me back my life!<br>

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Damned if I'll live in the debt of a thief!<br>

Damned if I'll yield at the end of the chase.<br>

I am the Law and the Law is not mocked<br>

I'll spit his pity right back in his face<br>

There is nothing on earth that we share<br>

It is either Valjean or Javert!<br>

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How can I now allow this man<br>

To hold dominion over me?<br>

This desperate man whom I have hunted<br>

He gave me my life. He gave me freedom.<br>

I should have perished by his hand<br>

It was his right.<br>

It was my right to die as well<br>

Instead I live... but live in hell.<br>

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And my thoughts fly apart<br>

Can this man be believed?<br>

Shall his sins be forgiven?<br>

Shall his crimes be reprieved?<br>

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And must I now begin to doubt,<br>

Who never doubted all these years?<br>

My heart is stone and still it trembles<br>

The world I have known is lost in shadow.<br>

Is he from heaven or from hell?<br>

And does he know<br>

That granting me my life today<br>

This man has killed me even so?<br>

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I am reaching, but I fall<br>

And the stars are black and cold<br>

As I stare into the void<br>

Of a world that cannot hold<br>

I'll escape now from the world<br>

From the world of Jean Valjean.<br>

There is nowhere I can turn<br>

There is no way to go on....<br>

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(He throws himself into the swollen river)<br>

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