Drink With Me

Lyrics

[VALJEAN] We meet again [JAVERT] You've hungered for this all your life Take your revenge! How right you should kill with a knife [VALJEAN cuts JAVERT's bonds.] [VALJEAN] You talk too much Your life is safe in my hands [JAVERT] Don't understand [VALJEAN] Get out of here [JAVERT] Valjean, take care I'm warning you [VALJEAN] Clear out of here [JAVERT] Once a thief, forever a thief What you want you always steal You would trade your life for mine? Yes, Valjean, you want a deal Shoot me now for all I care If you let me go, beware You'll still answer to Javert! [VALJEAN] You are wrong, and always have been wrong I'm a man, no worse than any man And you are free, and there are no conditions No bargains or petitions There's nothing that I blame you for You've done your duty, nothing more If I come out of this alive, you'll find me At number fifty-five Rue Plumet No doubt our paths will cross again [VALJEAN, spoken] Go [JAVERT leaves.] [The defenders settle down for the night with wine and a song.] [FEUILLY] Drink with me to days gone by Sing with me the songs we knew [PROUVAIRE] Here's to pretty girls who went to our heads [JOLY] Here's to witty girls who went to our beds [FEUILLY, JOLY & PROUVAIRE]​ Here's to them and here's to you! [GRANTAIRE] Drink with me to days gone by Can it be you fear to die? Will the world remember you when you fall? Could it be your death means nothing at all? Is your life just one more lie? [MEN] Drink with me [WOMEN] Drink with me [MEN] To days [WOMEN] To days [MEN] Gone by [WOMEN] Gone by [MEN] To the life [WOMEN] To the life [MEN] That used [WOMEN] That used [MEN] To be [WOMEN] To be At the shrine of friendship, never say die [MEN & WOMEN] Let the wine of friendship never run dry [MEN] Here's to you [WOMEN] Here's to you [MEN] And here's [WOMEN] And here's [MEN] To me [WOMEN] To me [MARIUS] Do I care if I should die Now she goes across the sea? Life without Cosette means nothing at all Would you weep, Cosette, should Marius fall? Will you weep, Cosette, for me? [They settle down to sleep.]