The LeMi Project

(Chorus) I know she'll wait,
I know that she'll be true!

(Courfeyrac) Students, workers, everyone

There's a river on the run

Like the flowing of the tide

Paris coming to our side!

(Chorus) How long O Lord

Before you let me die?

"What pretty hair!

What pretty locks you got there

What luck you got.

It's worth a centime, my dear

I'll take the lot"

"Let's make a price.

I'll give you all of ten francs,

Just think of that!"

"She's got a kid.

Sends her all that she can"

"You're no grander than the rest of us"

"That's right dearie, show him what you've got!"

"Master of the house, quick to catch yer eye

Never wants a passerby to pass him by

Servant to the poor, butler to the great

Comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate!

Everybody's boon companion

Everybody's chaperone"

"Red: the blood of angry men!

Black: the dark of ages past!

Red: a world about to dawn!

Black: the night that ends at last!"

"Do you hear the people sing?

Singing a song of angry men?

It is the music of a people

Who will not be slaves again!

When the beating of your heart

Echoes the beating of the drums

There is a life about to start

When tomorrow comes"

Now bring me prisoner 24601

Your time is up

And your parole's begun

You know what that means

You must think me mad!

I've hunted you across the years

A man like you can never change

A man... such as you...

One day more to revolution,

We will nip it in the bud!

We'll be ready for these schoolboys,

They will wet themselves with blood!

A ghost you say, a ghost maybe

She was just like a ghost to me

One minute there, then she was gone!

Had you been there tonight

You might know how it feels

To be struck to the bone

In a moment of breathless delight!

Had you been there tonight

You might also have known

How your world may be changed

In just one burst of light!

And what was right seems wrong

And what was wrong seems right!

In my life

She has burst like the music of angels

The light of the sun

And my life seems to stop

As if something is over

And something has scarcely begun.

Eponine, you're the friend who has brought me here.

Thanks to you I am at one with the Gods and Heaven is near!

And I soar through a world that is new that is free…

Come on, Captain, you can wear your shoes

Don't it make a change

To have a girl who can't refuse

Easy money

Lying on a bed

Just as well they never see

The hate that's in your head

Don't they know they're making love

To one already dead!

I dreamed a dream in time gone by

When hope was high

And life worth living

I dreamed that love would never die

I dreamed that God would be forgiving.

How strange, this feeling that my life's begun at last

This change, can people really fall in love so fast?

What's the matter with you, Cosette?

Have you been too much on your own?

So many things unclear

So many things unknown

Does he know I'm alive?
Do I know if he's real?
Does he see what I see?
Does he feel what I feel?
In my life
I'm no longer alone
Now that love in my life
Is so near
Find me now, find me here!

There's so little I know

That I'm longing to know

Of the man that you were

In a time long ago

There's so little you say

Of the life you have known

Why you keep to yourself

Why we're always alone

So dark, so dark and deep

The secrets that you keep!

I am agog!

I am aghast!

Is Marius in love at last?

I've never heard him 'ooh' and 'aah'

You talk of battles to be won

And here he comes like Don Juan

It's better than an opera!

Drink with me to days gone by

Can it be you fear to die?

Will the world remember you when you fall?

Could it be your death means nothing at all?

Is your life just one more lie?

Drink with me to days gone by

To the life that used to be

(Myriel) And remember

The truth that once was spoken

To love another person

Is to see the face of God.

(Chorus)When I get free, ya won't see me

Here for dust!

(Mont.)Go home, 'Ponine,

Go home, you're in the way!

(Combeferre) At Notre Dame

The sections are prepared!

(Brujon) What do I care

Who you should rob

Give me my share

Finish the job!

(Chorus) I might have known
There is always some man
Lovely lady, come along and join us!
Lovely lady!

(Feuilly) At Rue de Bac

They're straining at the leash!

(Babet) It's your brat Eponine

Don't you know your own kid

Why's she hanging about you?

(Chorus) I've done no wrong!

Sweet Jesus hear my prayer!

"Long time short time

Any time, my dear

Cost a little extra if you want to take all year!"

"Long time short time

Any time, my dear

Cost a little extra if you want to take all year!"

"Come on dearie, why all the fuss?"

"Make money in your sleep!"

"Life has dropped you at the bottom of the heap"

"That's right dearie, let him have the lot..."