Epilogue

[FANTINE]
Monsieur, I bless your name

[VALJEAN, spoken]
I am ready Fantine!

[FANTINE]
Monsieur, lay down your burden

[VALJEAN, spoken]
At the end of my days

[FANTINE]
You’ve raised my child in love

[VALJEAN, spoken]
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
And 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
A man who only learned to love
When you were in his keeping
[COSETTE, spoken]
I know it, Papa
[FANTINE (VALJEAN)]
Come with me
Where chains will never bind you
(Oh, I'm ready, Fantine.)
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

[FANTINE & THE BISHOP]
And remember
The truth that once was spoken
To love another person
Is to see the face of God

[ALL]
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 we bring
When tomorrow comes!

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 we bring
When tomorrow comes!

Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
Tomorrow comes!