And so it must be, for so it is written

On the doorway to paradise

That those who falter and those who fall

Must pay the price!

Lord, let me find him

That I may see him

Safe behind bars

I will never rest

Till then

This I swear

This I swear by the stars!

And must I now begin to doubt,

Who never doubted all these years?

My heart is stone and still it trembles

The world I have known is lost in shadow.

Is he from heaven or from hell?

And does he know

That granting me my life today

This man has killed me even so?

I am reaching, but I fall

And the stars are black and cold

As I stare into the void

Of a world that cannot hold

I'll escape now from that world

From the world of Jean Valjean

There is nowhere I can turn

There is no way to go on!