Ok So Les Mis Au Where Everything Is The Same But Javert Sings On My Own Instead Of Stars

ok so les mis au where everything is the same but javert sings on my own instead of stars

On my own

With just the law beside me

All alone,

Defending social order.

Without it,

My life would lose its purpose

And when I grow unsure I look above:

The stars grant guidance.

In the night, the stars know their course and aim; 

Down below, the lower classes scramble.

In the darkness, rebellion’s whispers echo,

And all that halts society’s collapse, is The Law and me.

And I know it’s only in my mind

That the stars aren’t telling me some higher plan

And although I know justice is blind

Still I say, there’s a way for it.

Order reigns,

But when the book is over

I am lost:

Valjean is only human.

With that known, 

My understanding changes:

My way’s unclear and up above 

The stars are black and cold now.

Order reigns, 

But today I am learning

All my life

I’ve only been pretending

Without me

Society has a chance:

A world with class mobility

That I have never known

Order reigns

Order reigns

Order reigns

But only in the stars

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ok so les mis au where everything is the same but javert sings on my own instead of stars

On my own

With just the law beside me

All alone,

Defending social order.

Without it,

My life would lose its purpose

And when I grow unsure I look above:

The stars grant guidance.

In the night, the stars know their course and aim; 

Down below, the lower classes scramble.

In the darkness, rebellion’s whispers echo,

And all that halts society’s collapse, is The Law and me.

And I know it’s only in my mind

That the stars aren’t telling me some higher plan

And although I know justice is blind

Still I say, there’s a way for it.

Order reigns,

But when the book is over

I am lost:

Valjean is only human.

With that known, 

My understanding changes:

My way’s unclear and up above 

The stars are black and cold now.

Order reigns, 

But today I am learning

All my life

I’ve only been pretending

Without me

Society has a chance:

A world with class mobility

That I have never known

Order reigns

Order reigns

Order reigns

But only in the stars

Speaking of the Javert-Eponine parallels—- another thing I’m bitter about in the 2012 film is the way they completely missed all the potential of “On My Own.”

Eponine is singing about the Seine, about the lights that are “misty in the river,” in a song that is meant to echo her book monologues about longing to drown herself. The 2012 film spends all its time on closeups of Samantha Barks being sad on one street, but! Like! We could have had shots of the river; of the lights and the reflections in the water of the Seine; we could have part of it take place on the bridge where Javert will later kill himself. It could have been the perfect opportunity to bring the weird Javert-Eponine parallels from the book into the musical’s universe, if only through visuals—- but they squandered it.

I mentioned before that one of the core parts of the Javert-Eponine thing is that they “trade deaths”— book!Eponine repeatedly talks about wanting to drown herself in the Seine but is eventually shot at the barricades, while Javert plans to be shot at the barricades but eventually drowns himself in the Seine.

In On My Own, Eponine is watching the lights in the river, and singing despairingly and suicidally about a world she can never belong to.

Her song ends

Without me, his world will go on turning/A world that’s full of happiness that I have never known

And Javert’s song ends

I’ll escape now from that world/from the world of Jean Valjean

And anyway! I just think that’s neat. I think we should’ve used Eponine’s song to set up the drowning motif and bring in that weird ambiguous character foil relationship she has with Javert in the book. But that’s just me

In Les Miserables

Valjean : The convict becomes a hero

Javert : The lawful becomes a criminal

Marius : The lost becomes an enlightened

Enjolras : The leader becomes a fallen

Grantaire : The cynic becomes a believer

Eponine : The misguided becomes a redeemed

Azelma : The despaired becomes a hopeful

Gavroche : The innocent becomes a cynic

Cosette : The abused becomes a survivor

Fantine : The misfit becomes a martyr