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In Valjean’s house, one day later.
VALJEAN: Has it been wrong? Has it been right?
I wish he had been out of sight
Cosette shall never find out what I’ve done
The past should have been forever gone
What shall I do?
What shall I say?
The past’s still standing in my way
I think I’ll never get away
If I stay, I am condemned
If I leave, I am damned
Why should I save his life?
Why should I lose my own?
When I have done the right
And have turned to the light?
I have gone so far
Took the last chance to change
Now I’m at the same point
Know that it’s too late
She is grown up now and she will go
Will leave with this boy, leave me even so
Will laugh and will live, so happy at last
But what will be when she knows the past?
If I stay, I am condemned
If I leave, I am damned
I’ve tried what is right
Gone toward the light
Ran away from the past
Ran away from the dark
Shall all these years be lost at once?
Is there another chance?
I’ve run away for far too long
Knew that this race would end one day
I’ve gone the way I should have gone
Knew that forever I can’t hide away
If I stay, I am condemned
If I leave, I am damned
I found him so this had to be
What is what you plan for me?
Dear God above, is that the end?
Soon in a prison I will stand
Cosette will soon find out the truth
Of all the faults in my youth
Cosette will hate me from this day forever on
She will be glad that I am gone
This is the end, I will be back
Beneath the lash, upon the rack
Where I have come from I will go
This is the last thing that I know
(weeps heavily)