[ti:On Parole The Bishop]
[ar:Les Misérables Live! The 2010 ]
[al:Les Misérables - The Musical T]
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[00:00.00]On Parole / the Bishop (Live) - 10th Anniversary Concert Cast of Les Misérables
[00:03.76]Freedom is mine The earth is still
[00:09.46]
[00:10.51]I feel the wind I breathe again
[00:15.08]
[00:16.02]And the sky clears the world is waiting
[00:22.46]
[00:25.16]Drink from the pool How clean the taste
[00:29.09]
[00:30.77]Never forget the years the waste
[00:34.15]
[00:36.22]Nor forgive them for what they've done
[00:38.96]
[00:40.27]They are the guilty everyone
[00:43.34]
[00:45.53]The day begins
[00:47.40]And now lets see
[00:49.40]
[00:50.03]What this new world
[00:51.72]Will do for me
[00:56.78]
[01:10.97]You'll have to go
[01:12.04]I'll pay you off for the day
[01:13.54]Collect your bits and pieces there
[01:15.03]And be on your way
[01:16.16]
[01:16.66]You've given me half
[01:17.54]What the other men get
[01:18.73]This handful of tin
[01:19.54]Wouldn't buy my sweat
[01:21.04]You broke the law
[01:22.10]It's there for people to see
[01:23.60]Why should you get the same
[01:24.79]As honest men like me
[01:26.93]
[01:30.49]Now I know how freedom feels
[01:31.63]The jail is always at your heels
[01:33.07]It is the law
[01:34.13]
[01:35.25]This piece of paper in my hand which bids me cast throughout the land
[01:37.94]It is the law
[01:39.00]
[01:39.50]Like a cur
[01:41.06]I walk the streets
[01:43.38]
[01:43.94]The dirt beneath their feet
[01:48.26]
[01:54.57]Come in sir for you are weary
[01:59.01]
[02:00.14]And the night is cold out there
[02:04.58]
[02:05.64]Though our lives are very humble
[02:09.08]
[02:09.70]What we have we have to share
[02:14.77]
[02:16.34]There is wine here to revive you
[02:20.34]
[02:21.90]There is bread to make you strong
[02:26.46]
[02:27.03]There's a bed to rest till morning
[02:30.90]
[02:31.46]Rest from pain and rest from wrong
[02:37.86]
[02:40.56]Let me eat my fill
[02:41.96]I have my lying share
[02:43.90]
[02:44.58]The silver in my hand cost twice what I had earned
[02:48.65]In all those nineteen years that lifetime of despair
[02:52.04]
[02:52.98]And yet he trusted me
[02:55.67]
[02:57.23]The old fool trusted me
[02:59.31]He'd done his bit of good
[03:01.56]I played the grateful serf and thanked him like I should
[03:05.19]
[03:05.93]But when the house was still
[03:07.50]I got up in the night
[03:09.62]
[03:11.01]Took the silver
[03:12.57]
[03:13.26]Took my flight
[03:21.54]
[03:28.73]Tell his reverence your story
[03:30.54]Let us see if he's impressed
[03:32.54]You were lodging there last night
[03:34.42]You were the honest Bishop's guest
[03:36.63]And then out of Christian goodness
[03:38.68]When he learned about your plight
[03:40.49]You maintain he made a present of this silver
[03:43.89]That is right
[03:45.45]
[03:46.45]But my friend you left so early
[03:49.89]Surely something slipped your mind
[03:52.58]
[03:53.14]You forgot I gave these also
[03:56.02]
[03:56.58]Would you leave the best behind
[04:00.64]
[04:01.96]So Messieurs you may release him
[04:05.77]
[04:06.32]For this man has spoken true
[04:09.64]I commend you for your duty
[04:13.06]And God's blessing go with you
[04:18.00]
[04:21.32]But remember this my brother
[04:26.20]
[04:26.70]See in this some higher plan
[04:31.64]
[04:32.45]You must use this precious silver
[04:36.78]To become an honest man
[04:42.84]
[04:43.40]By the witness of the martyrs
[04:48.53]
[04:49.09]By the Passion and the Blood
[04:54.22]
[04:54.84]God has raised you out of darkness
[04:59.85]I have bought your soul for God