Les Miserables Cast - Look Down Lyrics

Les Miserables Cast Lyrics

"Look Down"
(performed by Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Convicts)
(from "Les Misérables: Highlights From The Motion Picture Soundtrack" soundtrack)

Look down, look down
Don't look 'em in the eye
Look down, look down
You're here until you die

Now prisoner 24601
Your time is up
And your parole's begun
You know what that means

Yes, it means I'm free

No!
Follow to the letter your itinerary
This badge of shame you'll show until you die
It warns you're a dangerous man

I stole a loaf of bread
My sister's child was close to death
And we were starving

You will starve again
Unless you learn the meaning of the law

I know the meaning of those 19 years
A slave of the law

Five years for what you did
The rest because you tried to run
Yes, 24601

My name is Jean Valjean

And I am Javert
Do not forget my name!
Do not forget me
24601

Look down, look down
You'll always be a slave
Look down, look down
You're standing in your grave

Freedom at last
How strange it is
Never forget the years
The waste

Nor forgive them
For what they've done!
They are the guilty!
Every one!

The day begins
And now let's see
What this new world
Will do for me!

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Thanks to Dylan M, Bela, Alex for correcting these lyrics.

Jean Valjean is finally released from prison on parole after 19 years spent there working very hard. He got five years for stealing a loaf of bread and fourteen more for trying to escape. Policeman Javert warns him to always carry a "badge of shame", a ticket of leave which means he is an ex-convict.

This track is not the first in the original London cast recording of 1985, it appears after "Stars".