Epilogue - Les Misérables Cast

VALJEAN

Alone I wait in the shadows

I count the hours until I sleep

I dreamed a dream Cosette stood by

It made her weep to know I die

Alone at the end of the day

Upon this wedding night I pray

Take these children

Lord to thy embrace

And show them grace

God on high

Hear my prayer

Take me now

To thy care

Where you are

Let me be

Take me now

Take me there

Bring me home

Bring me home

FANTINE

Monsieur, I bless your name

VALJEAN

I am ready Fantine!

FANTINE

Monsieur, lay down your burden

VALJEAN

At the end of my days

FANTINE

You’ve raised my child with love

VALJEAN

She’s the best of my life

FANTINE

And you will be with God

COSETTE

Papa, papa, I do not understand

Are you all right?

Why did you go away

VALJEAN

Cosette, my child

Am I forgiven now?

Thank god, thank god

I’ve lived to see this day

MARIUS

It’s you who must forgive a thoughtless fool

It’s you who must forgive a thankless man

It’s thanks to you that I am living

Again I lay down my life at your feet

Cosette, your father is a saint

When they wounded me

He took me from the barricade

Carried like a babe

And brought me home

To you

VALJEAN

Now you are here

Again beside me

Now I can die in peace

For now my life is blessed

COSETTE

You will live,

Papa, you’re going to live

It’s too soon, too soon to say goodbye!

VALJEAN

Yes, Cosette, forbid me now to die

I’ll obey

I will try.

On this page

I write my last confession

Read it well when

I, at last, am sleeping

It’s the story

Of one who turned from hating

The man who only learned to love

When you were in his keeping.

FANTINE

On my own

Where chains will never bind you

All your grief

At last, at last behind you

Lord in Heaven

Look down on him in mercy.

VALJEAN

Forgive me all my trespasses

And take me to your glory.

FANTINE

Take my hand

I’ll lead you to salvation

Take my love

For love is everlasting

VALJEAN, FANTINE AND THE BISHOP

And remember

The truth that once was spoken

To love another person

Is to see the face of thrown.

PEOPLE

Do you hear the people sing

Lost in the valley of the night?

It is the music of a people

Who are climbing to the light.

For the wretched of the earth

There is a flame that never dies.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

They will live again in freedom

In the garden of the Lord.

We will walk behind the ploughshare;

We will put away the sword.

The chain will be broken

And all men will have their reward.

Will you join in our crusade?

Who will be strong and stand with me?

Somewhere beyond the barricade

Is there a world you long to see?

Do you hear the people sing?

Say, do you hear the distant drums?

It is the future that they bring

When tomorrow comes!

ALL

Will you join in our crusade?

Who will be strong and stand with me?

Somewhere beyond the barricade

Is there a world you long to see?

Do you hear the people sing?

Say, do you hear the distant drums?

It is the future that they bring

When tomorrow comes!

Ah!

Ah!

Ah!

Tomorrow comes!

VALJEAN AND FANTINE

But only on our own!