Les Miserables movie - Overture / Work Song / Look Down lyrics
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[PRISONERS]<br>
Look down, look down<br>
Don't look 'em in the eye<br>
Look down, look down,<br>
You're here until you die<br>
<br>
[CONVICT ONE]<br>
The sun is strong<br>
It's hot as hell below<br>
<br>
[PRISONER]<br>
Look down, look down,<br>
There's twenty years to go<br>
<br>
[CONVICT TWO]<br>
I've done no wrong!<br>
Sweet Jesus, hear my prayer!<br>
<br>
[PRISONERS]<br>
Look down look down, <br>
Sweet Jesus doesn't care<br>
<br>
[CONVICT THREE]<br>
I know she'll wait,<br>
I know that she'll be true!<br>
<br>
[PRISONERS]<br>
Look down, look down,<br>
They've all forgotten you<br>
<br>
[CONVICT FOUR]<br>
When I get free ya won't see me<br>
Here for dust!<br>
<br>
[PRISONERS]<br>
Look down, look down<br>
Don't look 'em in the eye<br>
<br>
[CONVICT FIVE]<br>
How long, oh Lord<br>
Before you let me die?<br>
<br>
[PRISONERS]<br>
Look down, look down,<br>
You'll always be a slave<br>
Look down, look down,<br>
You're standing in your grave<br>
<br>
[JAVERT]<br>
Now bring me prisoner 24601<br>
Your time is up<br>
And your parole's begun<br>
You know what that means.<br>
<br>
[VALJEAN]<br>
Yes, it means I'm free.<br>
<br>
[JAVERT]<br>
No!<br>
It means you get<br>
Your yellow ticket-of-leave<br>
You are a thief<br>
<br>
[VALJEAN]<br>
I stole a loaf of bread.<br>
<br>
[JAVERT]<br>
You robbed a house.<br>
<br>
[VALJEAN]<br>
I broke a window pane.<br>
My sister's child was close to death<br>
And we were starving.<br>
<br>
[JAVERT]<br>
You will starve again<br>
Unless you learn the meaning of the law.<br>
<br>
[VALJEAN]<br>
I know the meaning of those 19 years<br>
A slave of the law<br>
<br>
[JAVERT]<br>
Five years for what you did<br>
The rest because you tried to run<br>
Yes, 24601.<br>
<br>
[VALJEAN]<br>
My name is Jean Valjean<br>
<br>
[JAVERT]<br>
And I am Javert<br>
Do not forget my name!<br>
Do not forget me,<br>
24601.<br>
<br>
[PRISONERS]<br>
Look down, look down<br>
You'll always be a slave<br>
Look down, look down<br>
You're standing in your grave. <br>
<br>
[VALJEAN]<br>
Freedom is mine. The earth is still.<br>
I feel the wind. I breathe again.<br>
And the sky clears<br>
The world is waking.<br>
Drink from the pool. How clean the taste.<br>
Never forget the years, the waste.<br>
Nor forgive them<br>
For what they've done.<br>
They are the guilty - everyone.<br>
The day begins...<br>
And now lets see<br>
What this new world<br>
Will do for me!<br>
<br>
[He finds work on a farm]<br>
<br>
[FARMER]<br>
You'll have to go<br>
I'll pay you off for the day<br>
Collect your bits and pieces there<br>
And be on your way.<br>
<br>
[VALJEAN]<br>
You have given me half<br>
What the other men get!<br>
This handful of tin<br>
Wouldn't buy my sweat!<br>
<br>
[LABORER]<br>
You broke the law<br>
It's there for people to see<br>
Why should you get the same<br>
As honest men like me?<br>
<br>
[VALJEAN]<br>
Now every door is closed to me<br>
Another jail. Another key. Another chain<br>
For when I come to any town<br>
They check my papers<br>
And they find the mark of Cain<br>
In their eyes I see their fear<br>
`We do not want you here.'<br>
<br>
[He comes to an inn]<br>
<br>
[INKEEPER'S WIFE]<br>
My rooms are full<br>
And I've no supper to spare<br>
I'd like to help a stranger<br>
All we want is to be fair<br>
<br>
[VALJEAN]<br>
I will pay in advance<br>
I can sleep in a barn<br>
You see how dark it is<br>
I'm not some kind of dog!<br>
<br>
[INNKEEPER]<br>
You leave my house<br>
Or feel the weight of my rod<br>
We're law-abiding people here<br>
Thanks be to God.<br>
<br>
[They throw him out of the inn]<br>
<br>
[VALJEAN]<br>
And now I know how freedom feels<br>
The jailer always at your heels<br>
It is the law!<br>
This piece of paper in my hand<br>
That makes me cursed throughout the land<br>
It is the law!<br>
Like a cur<br>
I walk the street,<br>
The dirt beneath their feet.<br>
<br>
[He sits down despairingly outside a house from which emerges the Bishop of Digne.]<br>
<br>
[BISHOP]<br>
Come in, Sir, for you are weary,<br>
And the night is cold out there.<br>
Though our lives are very humble<br>
What we have, we have to share.<br>
There is wine here to revive you.<br>
There is bread to make you strong,<br>
There's a bed to rest till morning,<br>
Rest from pain, and rest from wrong.<br>
<br>
[VALJEAN]<br>
He let me eat my fill<br>
I had the lion's share<br>
The silver in my hand<br>
Cost twice what I had earned<br>
In all those nineteen years -<br>
That lifetime of despair<br>
And yet he trusted me.<br>
The old fool trusted me -<br>
He'd done his bit of good<br>
I played the grateful serf<br>
And thanked him like I should<br>
But when the house was still,<br>
I got up in the night.<br>
Took the silver<br>
Took my flight!<br>
<br>
[Taking the silver cup, he runs off, but is brought back by two constables]<br>
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