Javert's Soliloquy Lyrics - Les Miserables

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 

There is nothing on Earth that we share! 

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 To The 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]