Prologue-Les Misérables: International Cast

[ti:Prologue] [ar:Claude-Michel Schonberg] [al:Les Miserables] [by:] [offset:0] [01:21.36]Look down look down [01:23.68]Don't look 'em in the eye [01:26.36]Look down look down [01:29.50]You're here until you die [01:32.10]The sun is strong [01:35.17]It's hot as hell below [01:38.18]Look down look down [01:40.88]There's twenty years to go [01:43.44] [01:44.00]I've done no wrong [01:46.56]Sweet Jesus hear my prayer [01:49.60]Look down look down [01:52.22]Sweet Jesus doesn't care [01:54.72] [01:56.10]I know she'll wait [01:58.04]I know that she'll be true [02:01.04]Look down look down [02:03.54]They've all forgotten you [02:06.04] [02:06.72]When I get free you won't see me [02:09.34]Here for dust [02:10.91] [02:12.03]Look down look down [02:14.72]Don't look 'em in the eye [02:17.60]How long O Lord [02:20.47]Before you let me die [02:23.29]Look down look down [02:25.91]You'll always be a slave [02:28.72]Look down look down [02:31.60]You're standing in your grave [02:34.10] [02:34.85]Now bring me prisoner 24601 [02:38.04]Your time is up [02:39.04]And your parole's begun [02:40.54]You know what that means [02:41.61]Yes it means I'm free [02:45.06]NO [02:46.44]It means you get [02:47.43]Your yellow ticket-of-leave [02:48.00] [02:48.65]You are a thief [02:49.59]I stole a loaf of bread [02:50.98]You robbed a house [02:52.53]I broke a window pane [02:55.52] [02:56.84]My sister's child was close to death [02:59.81]And we were starving [03:01.37]And you will starve again [03:02.68]Unless you learn the meaning of the law [03:05.28]I know the meaning of those 19 years [03:07.46] [03:08.42]A slave of the law [03:12.10] [03:13.48]Five years for what you did [03:15.74]The rest because you tried to run [03:17.86]Yes 24601 [03:20.55]My name is Jean Valjean [03:23.11]And I am Javert [03:26.24]Do not forget my name [03:28.68]Do not forget me [03:31.18]24601 [03:34.19] [03:35.31]Look down look down [03:37.82]You will always be a slave [03:40.63]Look down look down [03:43.44]You're standing in your grave [03:46.22] [04:03.17]Freedom is mine The earth is still [04:08.30]I feel the wind I breathe again [04:14.34]And the sky clears the world is waking [04:21.03] [04:23.71]Drink from the pool How clean the taste [04:28.09] [04:29.66]Never forget the years the waste [04:33.51] [04:35.70]Nor forgive them for what they've done [04:39.64]They are the guilty everyone [04:44.09] [04:44.96]The day begins [04:46.40]And now let's see [04:48.46]What this new world [04:49.95]Will do for me [04:53.34] [05:17.73]You'll have to go [05:18.78]I'll pay you off for the day [05:20.29]Collect your bits and pieces there [05:21.62]And be on your way [05:23.43]You've given me half [05:24.44]What the other men get [05:26.06]This handful of tin [05:27.06]Wouldn't buy my sweat [05:28.47] [05:29.34]You broke the law [05:30.34]It's there for people to see [05:32.21]Why should you get the same [05:33.28]As honest men like me [05:34.82] [05:38.32]Now every door is closed to me [05:39.57]Another jail another key another chain [05:42.10] [05:43.04]For when I come to any town [05:44.27]They check my papers [05:45.03]And they find the mark of Cain [05:47.53]In their eyes I see their fear: [05:51.78]`We do not want you here ' [05:55.97] [06:11.06]My rooms are full [06:12.11]And I've no supper to spare [06:13.61]I'd like to help a stranger [06:14.93]All we want is to be fair [06:17.48]I will pay in advance [06:18.55]I can sleep in a barn [06:20.48]You see how dark it is [06:21.67]I'm not some kind of dog [06:23.55]You leave my house [06:24.87]Or feel the weight of my rod [06:27.24]We're law-abiding people here [06:27.99] [06:28.99]Thanks be to God [06:30.64] [06:49.77]And now I know how freedom feels [06:50.77]The jailer always at your heels [06:52.16]It is the law [06:53.22] [06:54.10]This piece of paper in my hand [06:55.54]That makes me cursed throughout the land [06:56.87]It is the law [06:58.44]Like a cur [06:59.94]I walk the street [07:03.09]The dirt beneath my feet [07:06.41] [07:10.41]Come in Sir for you are weary [07:13.85] [07:14.86]And the night is cold out there [07:19.55]Though our lives are very humble [07:22.99]What we have we have to share [07:27.87] [07:29.00]There is wine here to revive you [07:33.00] [07:33.56]There is bread to make you strong [07:37.57] [07:38.50]There's a bed to rest till morning [07:42.07]Rest from pain and rest from wrong [07:47.32] [07:49.70]He let me eat my fill [07:51.30]I had the lion's share [07:53.62]The silver in my hand [07:55.24]Cost twice what I had earned [07:57.50]In all those nineteen years [07:59.05]That lifetime of despair [08:01.81]And yet he trusted me [08:05.03] [08:05.69]The old fool trusted me [08:07.58]He's done his bit of good [08:09.64]I played the grateful serf [08:11.39]And thanked him like I should [08:13.82]But when the house was still [08:15.65]I got up in the night [08:18.71]Took the silver [08:19.00] [08:19.92]Took my flight