What have I done?
Sweet Jesus, what have I done?

Become a thief in the night,
Become a dog on the run


Have I fallen so far,
And is the hour so late
That nothing remains but the cry of my hate,

The cries in the dark that nobody hears,
Here where I stand at the turning of the years?


If there's another way to go
I missed it twenty long years ago
My life was a war that could never be won

They gave me a number and murdered Valjean
When they chained me and left me for dead
Just for stealing a mouthful of bread


Yet why did I allow that man
To touch my soul and teach me love?

He treated me like any other
He gave me his trust
He called me brother

My life he claims for God above
Can such things be?
For I had come to hate the world

This world that always hated me

Take an eye for an eye!

Turn your heart into stone!
This is all I have lived for!
This is all I have known!


One word from him and I'd be back
Beneath the lash, upon the rack

Instead he offers me my freedom
I feel my shame inside me like a knife
He told me that I have a soul,

How does he know?
What spirit comes to move my life?
Is there another way to go?


I am reaching, but I fall
And the night is closing in

And I stare into the void
To the whirlpool of my sin
I'll escape now from the world

From the world of Jean Valjean
Jean Valjean is nothing now
Another story must begin!