Prologue/Look Down - Claude-Michel Schönberg.mp3

[01:06.22]#Prisoners# Look down, look down
[01:08.75]Don't look 'em in the eye
[01:11.50]Look down, look down
[01:14.12]You're here until you die
[01:16.93]#Prisoner 1# The sun is strong
[01:19.59]It's hot as hell below
[01:22.53]#Prisoners# Look down, look down,
[01:24.79]There's twenty years to go
[01:27.60]#Prisoner 2# I've done no wrong!
[01:30.34]Sweet Jesus hear my prayer!
[01:33.10]#Prisoners# Look down, look down
[01:35.66]Sweet Jesus doesn't care
[01:38.62]#Prisoner 3# I know she'll wait
[01:40.93]I know that she'll be true!
[01:43.99]#Prisoners# Look down, look down
[01:46.80]They've all forgotten you
[01:49.43]#Prisoner 4# When I get free you won't see me
[01:52.56]Here for dust!
[01:55.11]#Prisoners# Look down, look down
[01:57.62]Don't look 'em in the eye
[02:00.50]#Prisoner 5# How long O Lord
[02:02.99]Before you let me die?
[02:05.82]#Prisoners# Look down, look down,
[02:08.43]You'll always be a slave
[02:11.19]Look down, look down,
[02:13.88]You're standing in your grave
[02:16.39]
[02:17.39]#Javert# Now bring me prisoner 24601
[02:19.83]Your time is up
[02:20.70]And your parole's begun
[02:22.20]You know what that means
[02:23.64]#Valjean# Yes, it means I'm free
[02:26.63]#Javert# NO!
[02:27.69]It means you get
[02:28.51]Your yellow ticket-of-leave
[02:30.06]You are a thief
[02:31.09]#Valjean# I stole a loaf of bread!
[02:32.28]#Javert# You robbed a house!
[02:33.65]#Valjean# I broke a window pane!
[02:37.92]My sister's child was close to death
[02:40.74]And we were starving!
[02:42.18]#Javert# And you will starve again
[02:43.42]Unless you learn the meaning of the law.
[02:46.12]#Valjean# I know the meaning of those 19 years
[02:49.24]A slave of the law
[02:53.81]#Javert# Five years for what you did
[02:55.99]The rest because you tried to run
[02:58.05]Yes 24601
[03:00.12]#Valjean# My name is Jean Valjean
[03:03.06]#Javert# And I am Javert
[03:05.56]Do not forget my name
[03:08.19]Do not forget me
[03:10.57]24601 24601
[03:14.20]#Prisoners# Look down, look down
[03:16.70]You will always be a slave
[03:19.58]Look down, look down
[03:22.21]You're standing in your grave.
[03:24.92]
[03:40.36]#Valjean# Freedom is mine. The earth is still
[03:45.84]I feel the wind. I breathe again.
[03:50.71]And the sky clears, the world is waking.
[04:00.25]Drink from the pool. How clean the taste
[04:05.23]Never forget the years, the waste.
[04:14.11]They are the guilty, everyone.
[04:19.00]The day begins...
[04:20.86]And now let's see
[04:22.62]What this new world
[04:23.76]Will do for me!
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[04:38.20]#Farmer# You'll have to go
[04:39.20]I'll pay you off for the day
[04:40.73]Collect your bits and pieces there
[04:41.90]And be on your way.
[04:43.84]#Valjean# You've given me half
[04:44.83]What the other men get!
[04:46.34]This handful of tin
[04:47.22]Wouldn't buy my sweat!
[04:48.84]#Laborer# You broke the law
[04:49.78]It's there for people to see
[04:51.15]Why should you get the same
[04:52.28]As honest men like me?
[04:53.29]Right
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[04:56.85]#Valjean# Now every door is closed to me
[04:58.30]Another jail, another key, another chain
[05:01.40]For when I come to any town
[05:02.58]They check my papers
[05:03.46]And they find the mark of Cain
[05:05.71]In their eyes, I see their fear:
[05:09.71]`We do not want you here.'“
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[05:26.39]#Innkeeper's Wife# My rooms are full
[05:27.64]And I've no supper to spare
[05:29.51]I'd like to help a stranger
[05:30.84]All we want is to be fair
[05:33.33]#Valjean# I will pay in advance
[05:33.60]I can sleep in a barn
[05:35.55]You see how dark it is
[05:36.73]I'm not some kind of dog!
[05:38.48]#Innkeeper# You leave my house
[05:39.55]Or feel the weight of my rod
[05:40.98]We're law-abiding people here
[05:42.94]Thanks be to God.
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[05:58.88]#Valjean# And now I know how freedom feels
[06:00.66]The jailer always at your heels
[06:01.85]It is the law!
[06:03.35]This piece of paper in my hand
[06:04.60]That makes me cursed throughout the land
[06:05.92]It is the law!
[06:07.48]Like a cur
[06:08.98]I walk the street
[06:11.98]The dirt beneath my feet.
[06:16.10]
[06:20.42]#Bishop# Come in, Sir, for you are weary
[06:25.11]And the night cold is out there.
[06:29.70]Though our lives are very humble
[06:33.27]What we have, we have to share.
[06:39.14]There is wine here to revive you,
[06:43.47]There is bread to make you strong,
[06:47.78]There's a bed to rest till morning,
[06:51.10]Rest from pain, and rest from wrong.
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[06:58.33]#Valjean# He let me eat my fill
[06:59.51]I had the lion's share
[07:01.84]The silver in my hand
[07:03.15]Cost twice what I had earned
[07:05.66]In all those nineteen years
[07:07.28]That life time of despair
[07:09.90]And yet he trusted me.
[07:13.92]The old fool trusted me
[07:15.67]He's done his bit of good
[07:17.55]I played the grateful serf
[07:18.95]And thanked him like I should
[07:21.76]But when the house was still,
[07:22.95]I got up in the night
[07:26.04]Took the silver
[07:27.78]Took my flight!
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[07:43.15]#Constable 1# Tell his reverence your story.
[07:44.75]#Constable 2# Let us see if he's impressed.
[07:46.88]#Constable 1#You were lodging here last night.
[07:48.69]#Constable 2#You were the honest Bishop's guest.
[07:50.82]#Constable 1#And than out of Christian goodness.
[07:52.75]#Constable 2#When he learned about your plight
[07:54.73]#Constable 1#You maintain he made a present of this sliver
[07:58.47]#Bishop# That is right.
[08:00.28]But my friend you left so early
[08:03.20]Surely something slipped your mind.
[08:06.14]You forgot I gave these also.
[08:09.07]Would you leave the best behind?
[08:13.32]So, Messieurs, you may release him
[08:16.76]For this man has spoken true.
[08:19.26]I commend you for your duty
[08:22.02]And God's blessing go with you.
[08:25.83]
[08:29.02]But remember this, my brother
[08:33.90]See in this some higher plan.
[08:38.86]You must use this precious silver
[08:42.55]To become an honest man.
[08:48.24]By the witness of the martyrs
[08:52.50]By the Passion and the Blood
[08:56.56]God has raised you out of darkness
[09:00.27]I have bought your soul for God!