The TAC libretto--continued again

Note: Lyrics in italics are included on the TAC audio recording but not the video production. I don't know why they cut them from the video; it's not all that much.

Drink With Me

We meet again * You've hungered for this all your life * Take your revenge * How right you should kill with a knife * You talk too much * Your life is safe in my hands * Don't understand * Get out of here * Valjean, take care, I'm warning you * Clear out of here * Once a thief, forever a thief * What you want you always steal * You would trade your life for mine * Yes, Valjean, you want a deal * Shoot me now, for all I care * If you let me go, beware * You'll still answer to Javert * You are wrong, and always have been wrong * I'm a man, no worse than any man * And you are free, and there are no conditions * No bargains or petitions * There's nothing that I blame you for * You've done your duty, nothing more * If I come out of this alive, you'll find me * At number 55 Rue Plumet * No doubt our paths will cross again * Go * Drink with me to days gone by * Sing with me the songs we knew * Here's to pretty girls who went to our heads * Here's to witty girls who went to our beds * Here's to them, and here's to you * 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 * Drink with me * To days * To days * Gone by * Gone by * To the life * To the life * That used * That used * To be * To be * At the shrine of friendship, never say die * Let the wine of friendship never run dry * Here's to you * Here's to you * And here's * And here's * To me * To me * Do I care if I should die * Now she goes across the sea * Life without Cosette means nothing at all * Would you weep, Cosette * Should Marius fall * Will you weep, Cosette, for me

Bring Him Home

God on high * Hear my prayer * In my need * You have always been there * He is young * He's afraid * Let him rest * Heaven blessed * Bring him home * Bring him home * Bring him home * He's like the son I might have known * If God had granted me a son * The summers die, one by one * How soon they fly, on and on * And I am old, and will be gone * Bring him peace * Bring him joy * He is young * He is only a boy * You can take * You can give * Let him be * Let him live * If I die * Let me die * Let him live * Bring him home * Bring him home * Bring him home

Second Attack/The Final Battle

You at the barricades listen to this * The people of Paris sleep in their beds * You have no chance * No chance at all * Why throw your lives away * Let us die facing our foe * Make them bleed while we can * Make them pay through the nose * Make them pay for every man * Let others rise to take our place * Until the earth is free

The Sewers

Dog Eats Dog

Here's a hint of gold * Stuck into a tooth * Pardon me, m'sieur, you won't be needing it no more * Shouldn't be too hard to sell * Add it to the pile * Add it to the stock * Here among the sewer rats, a breath away from Hell * You get accustomed to the smell * Well, someone's gotta clean them up, my friends * Bodies on the highway * Law and order upside down * Someone's gotta collect their odds and ends * As a service to the town * Here's a tasty ring * Pretty little thing * Wouldn't want to waste it, that would really be a crime * Thank you, sir, I'm in your debt * Here's a little toy * Take it off the boy * His heart's no longer going, and he's lived his little time * But his watch is ticking yet * Well, someone's gotta clean them up, my friends * Before the little harvest disappears into the mud * Someone's gotta collect their odds and ends * When the gutters run with blood * It's a world where the dogs eat the dogs * Where they kill for the bones in the street * And God in His Heaven, He don't interfere * 'Cause He's dead as the stiffs at me feet * I raise my eyes to see the heavens * And only the moon looks down * The harvest moon shines down

Javert's Suicide

It's you, Javert * I knew you wouldn't wait too long * The faithful servant at his post once more * This man's done no wrong * And he needs a doctor's care * I warned you, I would not give in * I won't be swayed * Another hour yet * And then I'm yours * And all our debts are paid * The man of mercy comes again * And talks of justice * Come, time is running short * Look down, Javert * He's standing in his grave *

Give way, Javert * There is a life to save *

Take him, Valjean * Before I change my mind *

I will be waiting, 24601 * Who is this man, what sort of devil is he * To have me caught in a trap and choose to let me go free * It was his hour at last to put a seal on my fate * Wipe out the past and wash me clean off the slate * All it would take was a flick of his knife * Vengeance was his and he gave me back my life * Damned if I'll live in the debt of a thief * Damned if I'll yield at the end of the chase * I am the law, and the law is not mocked * I'll spit his pity right back in his face * There is nothing on earth that we share * It is either Valjean or Javert * How can I now allow this man * To hold dominion over me * This desperate man whom I have hunted * He gave me my life * He gave me freedom * I should have perished by his hand * It was his right * It was my right to die as well * Instead I live, but live in hell * And my thoughts fly apart * Can this man be believed * Shall his sins be forgiven * Shall his crimes be reprieved * 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

Turning

Did you see them going off to fight * Children of the barricades who didn't last the night * Did you see them lying where they died * Someone used to cradle them and kiss them when they cried * Did you see them lying side by side * Who will wake them * No one ever will * No one ever told them that a summer day can kill * They were schoolboys, never held a gun * Fighting for a new world that would rise up like the sun * Where's that new world now the fighting's done * Nothing changes * Nothing ever will * Every year another brat, another mouth to fill * Same old story * What's the use of tears * What's the use of praying if there's nobody who hears * Turning, turning, turning, turning, turning through the years * Turning, turning * Turning through the years * Minutes into hours and the hours into years * Nothing changes * Nothing ever can * Round and round the roundabout and back where you began * Round and round and back where you began

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables

There's a grief that can't be spoken * There's a pain goes on and on * Empty chairs at empty tables * Now my friends are dead and gone * Here they talked of revolution * Here it was they lit the flame * Here they sang about tomorrow * And tomorrow never came * From the table in the corner * They could see a world reborn * And they rose with voices ringing * And I can hear them now * The very words that they had sung * Became their last communion * On the lonely barricades at dawn * Oh, my friends, my friends, forgive me * That I live and you are gone * There's a grief that can't be spoken * There's a pain goes on and on * Phantom faces at the window * Phantom shadows on the floor * Empty chairs at empty tables * Now my friends will meet no more * Oh, my friends, my friends, don't ask me * What your sacrifice was for * Empty chairs at empty tables * Now my friends will sing no more

Every Day/A Heart Full of Love--Reprise

Every day you walk with stronger step * You walk with longer step * The worst is over * Every day, I wonder every day * Who was it brought me here from the barricade * Don't think about it, Marius * With all the years ahead of us * I will never go away * And we will be together every day * Every day * We'll remember that night and the vow that we made * A heart full of love * A night full of you * The words are old, but always true * Oh, God, for shame * You did not even know my name * Dear mad'moiselle * I was lost in your spell *

A heart full of love * No fear, no regret * My name is Marius Pontmercy * I saw you waiting and I knew * At your call * And it wasn't a dream * Not a dream after all

Cosette, Cosette * Waiting for you * At your feet * And it wasn't a dream * Not a dream after all

She was never mine to keep * She is youthful, she is free * Love is the garden of the young * Let it be * Let it be * A heart full of love * This I give you on this day

The Wedding Chorale/Beggars at the Feast

Ring out the bells upon this day of days * May all the angels of the Lord above * In jubilation sing their songs of praise * And crown this blessed time with peace and love * Ain't it a laugh * Ain't it a treat * Hobnobbing here among the elite * There goes a Prince * Here comes a Jew * This one's a queer * But what can you do * Paris at me feet * Paris in the dust * And here's me breaking bread * With the upper crust * Beggar at the feast * Master of the dance * Life is easy pickings if you grab your chance * Ev'rywhere you go * Law-abiding folk * Doing what is decent but they're mostly broke * Singing to the Lord on Sundays * Praying for the gifts He'll send *

But we're the ones who take it * We're the ones who make it in the end * Watch the buggers dance * Watch 'em 'til they drop * Keep your wits about you and you stand on top * Masters of the land * Always get our share * Clear away the barricades and we're still there * We know where the wind is blowing * Money is the stuff we smell * And when we're rich as Croesus * Jesus, won't we see you all in hell

But we're the ones who take it * We're the ones who make it in the end * Watch the buggers dance * Watch 'em 'til they drop * Keep your wits about you and you stand on top * Masters of the land * Always get our share * Clear away the barricades and we're still there * We know where the wind is blowing * Money is the stuff we smell * And when we're rich as Croesus * Jesus, won't we see you all in hell

Epilogue (Finale)

Alone I wait in the shadows * I count the hours 'til I can sleep * I dreamed a dream Cosette stood by * It made her weep to know I die * Alone at the end of the day * Upon this wedding night I pray * Take these children, my Lord, to Thy embrace * And show them grace * God on high * Hear my prayer * Take me now * To Thy care * Where you are * Let me be * Take me now * Take me there * Bring me home * Bring me home * M'sieur, I bless your name * I am ready, Fantine * M'sieur, lay down your burden * At the end of my days * You raised my child with love * She's the best of my life * And you will be with God * Papa, Papa, I do not understand * Are you all right * They said you'd gone away * Cosette, my child, am I forgiven now * Thank God, thank God, I've lived to see this day * It's you who must forgive a thoughtless fool * It's you who must forgive a thankless man * It's thanks to you that I am living * And again I lay down my life at your feet * Cosette, your father is a saint * When they wounded me * He took me from the barricade * Carried like a babe * And brought me home to you * Now you are here * Again beside me * Now I can die in peace * For now my life is blessed * You will live, Papa, you're going to live * It's too soon, too soon to say goodbye * Yes, Cosette, forbid me now to die * I'll obey * I will try * On this page I write my last confession * Read it well when I at last am sleeping * It's a story of those who always loved you * Your mother gave her life for you, then gave you to my keeping * Come with me where chains will never bind you * All your grief at last, at last behind you * Lord in heaven, look down on him in mercy * Forgive me all my trespasses and take me to Your Glory *

Take my hand and lead me to salvation * Take my love, for love is everlasting * And remember the truth that once was spoken * To love another person is to see the face of God *

Take my hand and lead me to salvation * Take my love, for love is everlasting * And remember the truth that once was spoken * To love another person is to see the face of God *

And remember the truth that once was spoken * To love another person is to see the face of God *

Do you hear the people sing * Lost in the valley of the night * It is the music of a people who are climbing to the light * For the wretched of the earth * There is a flame that never dies * Even the darkest nights will end and the sun will rise * They will live again in freedom in the garden of the Lord * They will walk behind the ploughshare * They will put away the sword * The chain will be broken and all men will have their reward * Will you join in our crusade * Who will be strong and stand with me * Somewhere beyond the barricade is there a world you long to see * Do you hear the people sing * Say, do you hear the distant drums * It is the future that they bring when tomorrow comes * Will you join in our crusade * Who will be strong and stand with me * Somewhere beyond the barricade is there a world you long to see * Do you hear the people sing * Say, do you hear the distant drums * It is the future that they bring when tomorrow comes * Tomorrow comes