Chords for Javert's Suicide

_ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _
_ [Gm] _ [D] Who is this man, what sort of devil is [C] he, to have me caught in a [G] trap and choose to
let me go free?
It was his hour at last to put [Em] a seal on my fate, wipe out the past and wash me clean
off the slate.
[Gm] All it would take was a flick of his knife.
Vengeance was his [D] and he gave me back [Gm] my life.
_ _ _ _ Damned if I live in the debt of a thief, damned if I yield at the end of [Bb] the chase.
I am the law and the law is not mocked.
I'll spit his pity right back in his face.
[Eb] There is nothing on [Gm] earth that we share.
[Eb] It is I, the [D] [Gm] Valjean, Ojavert. _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ [C] _ Can my thoughts fly [G] apart?
_ _ _ Can this man be believed?
[Em] _ [Dm] _ [A] _ Shall his sins be forgiven?
[D] _ _ [A] _ Shall his crimes be [D] _ _ _ _ _ [A]
reprieved?
[Dm] _ _ [G] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ And must I now begin [Bb] to doubt?
_ _ _ Who never doubted [Dm] all these years?
_ [Bm] My heart is stone and still [Gb] it _ trembles.
[G] The world I have known [D] is lost in shadow.
_ Is he from heaven or [G] from hell?
_ [A] _ And does [D] he _ know that granting me my life [Gm] today, _ _
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[N] _ _ this man has killed me _ even [Db] _ _ so? _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I am reaching _ _ but I fall _ and the stars are black and cold.
_ _ As I [A] stare into the void _ of a world [Eb] that cannot hold. _
I'll [D] escape now from that world, from the world of Jean Valjean.
There is [A] nowhere I can turn.
There is [B] no way to [Bb] go.
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