Great Performances (TV Series)

Les Misérables in Concert (1995)

Lea Salonga: Eponine

Quotes 

• Fantine : Come with me, where chains will never bind you. All your grief at last, at last behind you. Lord in Heaven, look down on him in mercy.

  Jean Valjean : Forgive me all my trespasses and take me to your glory.

  Fantine , Eponine : Take my hand, I'll lead you to salvation. Take my love, for love is everlasting.

  Fantine , Jean Valjean , Eponine : And remember, the truth that once was spoken: to love another person is to see the face of God.

• Eponine : I love him, but everyday I'm learning. All my life, I've only been pretending. Without me his world will go on turning. A world that's full of happiness that I have never known.

• Eponine : Don't you fret, Monsieur Marius, I don't feel any pain. A little fall of rain can hardly hurt me now. You're here... that's all I need to know. And you will keep me safe, and you will keep me close... and rain will make the flowers grow.

• Eponine : On my own, pretending he's beside me. All alone, I walk with him till morning. Without him, I feel his arms around me, and when I lose my way I close my eyes, and he has found me. In the rain, the pavement shines like silver. All the lights are misty in the river. In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight... and all I see is him and me, forever and forever.

• Fantine , Eponine : Take my hand, I'll lead you to salvation. Take my love, for love is everlasting.

  Fantine , Eponine , Jean Valjean : And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God.

• Jean Valjean : One day more. Another day, another destiny, this never-ending road to Calvary. These men who seem to know my crime will surely come a second time. One day more.

  Marius : I did not live until today. How can I live when we are parted?

  Jean Valjean : One day more.

  Marius , Cosette : Tomorrow, you'll be worlds away, and yet with you, my world has started.

  Eponine : One more day all on my own.

  Marius , Cosette : Will we ever meet again?

  Eponine : One more day of him not caring.

  Marius , Cosette : I was born to be with you.

  Eponine : What a life I might have known.

  Marius , Cosette : And I swear, I will be true.

  Eponine : But he never saw me there.

  Enjolras : One more day before the storm.

  Marius : Do I follow where she goes?

  Enjolras : At the barricade of freedom.

  Marius : Do I join my brothers there?

  Enjolras : As our ranks begin to form.

  Marius : Do I stay, and do I care?

  Enjolras : Will you take your place with me?

  [Chorus joins in] 

  Enjolras : The time is now, the day is here!

  Jean Valjean : One day more!

  Javert : One more day to revolution. We will nip it in the bud. I will join these little schoolboys. They will wet themselves with blood!

  Jean Valjean : One day more!

  Thenardier , Madame Thenardier : Watch 'em run amok. Catch 'em as they fall. Never know your luck when there's a free-for-all. Here, a little dip. There, a little touch. Most of 'em are goners, so they won't miss much!

  [Chorus joins in] 

  Thenardier , Madame Thenardier : One day to a new beginning, raise the flag of freedom high. Every man will be a king, every man will be a king. There's a new world for the winning, there's a new world to be won. Do you hear the people sing?

  Marius : My place is here. I'll fight with you!

  Jean Valjean : One day more!

  [everyone sings their previous verses simultaneously] 

  Jean Valjean : One day more!

  [Verses continue] 

  Jean Valjean : Tomorrow, we'll be far away. Tomorrow is the judgment day.

  Ensemble : Tomorrow we'll discover what our God in Heaven has in store. One more dawn, one more day, one day more!