Javert's Soliloquy
Javert
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
It is either Valjean or Javert!
How can I now allow this man
To hold dominion over me?
This desperate man that 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 no where I can turn
There is no way to go on!
[ Javert throws himself in the river]