Les Miserables movie - What Have I Done? lyrics

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Song by Valjean<br /><br>

[VALJEAN]<br>

What have I done?<br>

Sweet Jesus, what have I done?<br>

Become a thief in the night,<br>

Become a dog on the run<br>

And have I fallen so far,<br>

And is the hour so late<br>

That nothing remains but the cry of my hate,<br>

The cries in the dark that nobody hears,<br>

Here where I stand at the turning of the years?<br>

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If there's another way to go<br>

I missed it twenty long years ago<br>

My life was a war that could never be won<br>

They gave me a number and murdered Valjean<br>

When they chained me and left me for dead<br>

Just for stealing a mouthful of bread<br>

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Yet why did I allow that man<br>

To touch my soul and teach me love?<br>

He treated me like any other<br>

He gave me his trust<br>

He called me brother<br>

My life he claims for God above<br>

Can such things be?<br>

For I had come to hate the world<br>

This world that always hated me<br>

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Take an eye for an eye!<br>

Turn your heart into stone!<br>

This is all I have lived for!<br>

This is all I have known!<br>

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One word from him and I'd be back<br>

Beneath the lash, upon the rack<br>

Instead he offers me my freedom<br>

I feel my shame inside me like a knife<br>

He told me that I have a soul,<br>

How does he know?<br>

What spirit comes to move my life?<br>

Is there another way to go?<br>

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I am reaching, but I fall<br>

And the night is closing in<br>

And I stare into the void<br>

To the whirlpool of my sin<br>

I'll escape now from the world<br>

From the world of Jean Valjean<br>

Jean Valjean is nothing now<br>

Another story must begin!<br>

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[He tears up his yellow ticket-of-leave]<br>

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[Thanks to Curtis Swike for corrections]<br>

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