Song Name: | Valjean's Soliloquy--What Have I Done? (Les Miserables) | By: | Claude-Michel Schonberg |
Posted By: | TrillianAera | Difficulty: | Any |
Key: | Any | Genre: | General |
Harp Type: | Chromatic | ||
Created: | 2016-07-03 11:06:34 | Modified: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
Song: | <-5 <-5 <-5 <-5 <-5 <-5 <-5 <-5 <-5 <-5 <-5 What have I done, sweet Jesus, what have I done <-5 <-5 <-5 <-6 <-6 <-6 <-6 <-6 <-6 <-6 <-6 <-6 <-6 <-6 Become a thief in the night, become a dog on the run <-6 <-6 <-6 <7 <7 <7 <7 <7 <7 <7 <7 <7 <7 And have I fallen so far, and is the hour so late <7 <7 <7 <7 <7 <7 <7 <7 <7 -8 8 That nothing remains but the cry of my hate <7 <7 <7 <7 <7 <7 <7 <-7 -8 The cries in the dark that nobody hears <7 <7 <7 <7 <7 <7 <-7 <-7 <-7 <7 <7 Here where I stand at the turning of the years -8 -8 -8 <-7 <-7 -8 -8 <-7 If there’s another way to go -8 -8 -8 <-7 <-7 <-7 -8 -8 <-7 I missed it twenty long years ago -8 -8 -8 -8 <-7 <-7 <-7 -8 -8 -8 <-7 My life was a war that could never be won <-7 -8 -8 -8 <-7 <-7 <-7 -8 -8 -8 <-7 They gave me a number and murdered Valjean <7 <-7 -8 <8 -8 <-7 <7 <-6 <7 When they chained me and left me for dead <7 <-7 -8 <8 -8 <-7 <7 <-6 <7 Just for stealing a mouthful of bread 5 5 -6 -6 -7 -7 <-7 <-7 Yet why did I allow this man <5 <5 -6 -6 <-7 <-7 -7 -7 To touch my soul and teach me love -5 -5 -6 -6 -7 -7 -9 <8 -7 He treated my like any other, -7 <-7 -7 7 -6 7 <-7 -7 7 -6 He gave me his trust, he called me brother -6 -6 -7 -7 8 8 -9 -9 My life he claims for God above 6 6 8 8 Can such things be 5 5 -6 -6 -7 -7 <-7 <-7 For I had come to hate the world 5 5 6 6 7 7 -6 -6 This world that always hated me <11 <11 <11 11 -10 <-9 Take an eye for an eye <11 <11 <11 11 -10 <-9 Turn your heart into stone <-11 <-11 <-11 -11 11 -10 9 This is all I have lived for <-11 <-11 <-11 -11 11 -10 This is all I have known 5 5 -6 -6 -7 -7 <-7 <-7 One word from him and I’d be back <5 <5 -6 -6 <-7 <-7 -7 -7 Beneath the lash, upon the rack -5 -5 -6 -6 -7 -7 -9 <8 -7 Instead he offers me my freedom -7 <-7 -7 7 -6 7 <-7 -7 7 -6 I feel my shame inside me like a knife -6 -6 -7 -7 8 8 -9 -9 He told me that I have a soul 6 6 8 8 How does he know 5 5 -6 -6 -7 -7 <-7 <-7 What spirit comes to move my life 5 5 6 6 7 7 -6 -6 Is there another way to go <7 -7 <-7 -7 <7 -7 -7 I am reaching but I fall -7 -7 <-7 -7 <7 -7 -7 And the night is closing in -7 -7 <-7 -7 <7 -7 -7 And I stare into the void -7 -7 <-7 -7 <7 -7 -7 To the whirlpool of my sin -7 -7 <-7 -7 <7 -7 -7 I’ll escape now from the world -7 -7 <-7 -7 <7 -7 -7 From the world of Jean Valjean -11 -11 <-11 -11 <11 -11 -11 Jean Valjean is nothing now -11 -11 -11 <-11 -11 <11 -11 -11
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