I Saw Him Once
(Cosette stands in her garden on Rue Plumet)
Cosette: How strange how curious, how secret, and how vain
This change
Till now I've seen myself as rather plain
What is happening to you Cosette?
Why you don't even know his name
Or (?) and nothing feels the same
I saw him once
Then he was gone
We were like dreamers at night
Who meet as in a trance then part again
Two phantoms in the shadows of the moon
Can people really fall in love so soon?
He walked alone
He seemed alone like me
Could he have known
That moment was my destiny?
I had to run away,
And it was like a dream.
For there are dreams which do come true
I saw him once and once will do!
(There is a sound at the gate)
Dearest papa!
Can I tell him of this?
How can I tell him the things that I feel?
How could he understand?
A Heart Full of Love
Marius:
A heart full of love!
A heart full of song!
I'm doing everything all wrong
Oh God, for shame!
I do not even know your name.
Dear mad'moiselle
I am lost in your spell.
Cosette:
A heart full of love
Both:
A heart full of you!
Marius:
The words are foolish but they're true.
Cosette! Cosette!
Or were we dreaming when we met?
Cosette:
Who can say?
Marius:
Who can tell?
Cosette:
A heart full of love!
A heart full of you!
Marius:
I saw you waiting and I knew.
Cosette:
Waiting for you!
Marius:
At your feet.
Cosette:
At your call.
Both:
And it isn't a dream.
Not a dream after all!
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He was never mine to lose.
Why regret what could not be?
There are words he'll never say.
Not to me
Not to me, not for me.
His heart full of love
He will never feel this way!
Cosette:
In life
I lack nothing
But I miss someone my own age
Is his far away, still so far
The handsome prince on the path
Of my childhood dream, in his cage.
Jean Valjean:
My child, and me who thinks you a child
There is not handsome prince charming on this earth
Cosette:
But you were the prince of my childhood
Another must come in my adolescence.
In my life,
Neither grief nor sorrow
But I don't have the heart of happiness
Not the heart of happiness
Jean Valjean:
Happiness is a gift of God
To each at his time,
At his time.
Marius: Dans la Vie~Marius: In Life
Marius:
In life
If I lack everything, I miss nothing when before her
She is there, near me,
My princesse in the garden, a rose in hand, unreal
I had thought
To have lost her forever
And behold
Éponine is transformed into a good fairy
The good Lord, sometimes, is a great magician
Santa Claus misleadingly coming in the month of June
And life,
Suddenly in a flash of lightening,
Horsewhips my heart
When death still inhabited me yesterday
Éponine:
Happiness makes the poor richer
And makes the rich better . . . better
Little Cosette:
They will come soon, and I am not done
Mopping, scrubbing, and polishing the floor
And then, without a rest, I will go serve as well
Yet she will beat me all the same.
I know, but I am used to it
And it is no worse than my loneliness
My prince in on the path right now
I don't know what he'll be like
But I know he will come tomorrow
My prince is already on the way.
With one sweep of my magic broom
He appears if I want him to
In a murmur of music
And I travel in his eyes.
All children have a childhood
A family and toys
It's all or nothing, good luck or very bad
I have neither father, mother, nor doll
My prince is on the path right now
I don't know what he'll be like
But I know he will come tomorrow
My prince is already on the way.
. . . It's all or nothing, good luck or very bad
I have neither father, mother, nor doll
lalala . . . my prince is already on the path
They will come soon, and I am not done
Mopping, scrubbing and polishing the floor
My god, there's Mme Thénardier
Marius:
The heart of happiness
I hope and I'm afraid
That these words make my unhappiness and that she might say to me
Cosette:
I don't even know your name.
Marius
My god, pardon me; excuse my foolishness
Cosette:
The heart of happiness
I waited for a prince
Marius:
My name is Marius Pontmercy
Cosette:
And mine's Cosette
Marius:
I saw you at the Luxembourg
Cosette:
Prince of love
Both:
There you are, as in a dream
The angels, sometimes, meet each other on earth.
The Guests:
Have you ever seen such a pretty bride?
Have you ever seen such a successful wedding?
The Family:
It’s good to have his friends with him
The Guests:
Be happy, cherish each other forever
And make children of love for us
Cosette and Marius:
It’s so nice to have you all here
The Guests:
Be happy, cherish each other forever
And make children of love for us
