In My Life

Cosette

How strange, this feeling that my life’s begun at last
This change, can people really fall in love so fast?
What’s the matter with you, Cosette?
Have you been too much on your own?
So many things unclear
So many things unknown.

In my life
There are so many questions and answers
That somehow seem wrong
In my life
There are times when I catch in the silence
The sigh of a faraway song
And it sings
Of a world that I long to see
Out of reach
Just a whisper away
Waiting for me!

Does he know I’m alive?
Do I know if he’s real?
Does he see what I see?
Does he feel what I feel?

In my life
I’m no longer alone
Now the love in my life
Is so near ...
Find me now, find me here!

Valjean

Dear Cosette,
You’re such a lonely child
How pensive, how sad you seem to me
Believe me, were it within my power
I’d fill each passing hour
How quiet it must be, I can see,
With only me for company.

Cosette

There’s so little I know
That I’m longing to know
Of the man that you were
In a time long ago…

There’s so little you say
Of the life you have known
Why you keep to yourself
Why we’re always alone
So dark! So dark, and deep…
The secrets that you keep!

In my life

Please forgive what I say 
You were loving and gentle and good
But Papa, dear Papa, in your eyes
I am still like a child who is lost in a wood

Valjean

No more words
No more words. It’s a time that is dead
There are words
That are better unheard
Better unsaid.

Cosette

In my life
I’m no longer a child and I yearn
For the truth that you know
Of the years… years ago!

Valjean

You will learn
Truth is given by God
To us all in our time
In our turn.

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Marius

In my life
She has burst like the music of angels
The light of the sun!
And my life seems to stop
As if something is over
And something has scarcely begun.
Éponine, you’re the friend
Who has brought me here
Thanks to you, I am one with the gods
And Heaven is near!
And I soar through a world that is new, that is free.

Éponine

Every word that he says
Is a dagger in me!
In my life
There's been no one like him anywhere
Anywhere, where he is
If he asked... I'd be his.

Marius & Éponine

In my life, there is someone who touches my life ...

Marius

Waiting near!

Éponine

Waiting here!