[ti:Javert's Suicide] [ar:Various Artists] [al:Les Misérables (1987 Original ] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Javert's Suicide (ジャヴェールの自殺) - Claude-Michel Schönberg [00:06.14]Written by:Herbert Kretzmer/Claude-Michel Schönberg [00:12.28]Who is this man [00:13.15]What sort of devil is he [00:14.47]To have me caught in a trap [00:15.91]And choose to let me go free [00:17.10]It was his hour at last [00:18.16]To put a seal on my fate [00:19.34] [00:20.10]Wipe out the past [00:20.85]And wash me clean off the slate [00:22.35]All it would take [00:23.42]Was a flick of his knife [00:24.51] [00:25.15]Vengeance was his [00:26.27]And he gave me back my life [00:29.28] [00:30.72]Damned if I'll live in the debt of a thief [00:33.13]Damned if I'll yield at the end of the chase [00:34.88] [00:35.48]I am the Law and the Law is not mocked [00:38.29]I'll spit his pity right back in his face [00:40.23]There is nothing on earth that we share [00:42.61]It is either Valjean or Javert [00:45.20] [00:58.59]How can I now allow this man [01:01.41] [01:02.98]To hold dominion over me [01:06.05] [01:07.67]This desperate man whom I have hunted [01:10.38] [01:11.43]He gave me my life He gave me freedom [01:16.04] [01:16.60]I should have perished by his hand [01:20.00] [01:21.43]It was his right [01:24.31] [01:25.50]It was my right to die as well [01:28.75] [01:30.00]Instead I live but live in hell [01:33.78] [01:34.53]And my thoughts fly apart [01:37.97] [01:38.61]Can this man be believed [01:42.16] [01:42.72]Shall his sins be forgiven [01:46.17] [01:46.86]Shall his crimes be reprieved [01:52.73] [01:57.37]And must I now begin to doubt [02:01.71]Who never doubted all these years [02:05.96]My heart is stone and still it trembles [02:09.73]The world I have known is lost in shadow [02:14.70]Is he from heaven or from hell [02:18.17] [02:19.73]And does he know [02:22.35] [02:23.42]That granting me my life today [02:26.66] [02:28.35]This man has killed me even so [02:32.67] [02:34.17]I am reaching but I fall [02:38.60]And the stars are black and cold [02:41.93] [02:42.55]As I stare into the void [02:46.26]Of a world that cannot hold [02:49.15] [02:49.84]I'll escape now from the world [02:52.78]From the world of Jean Valjean [02:56.34]There is nowhere I can turn [02:59.34]There is no way to go on