Look Down

Song Look Down
Artist Claude-Michel Schönberg
Album Les Miserables: Complete Symphonic Recordings

Lyrics

[00:03.680] Look down and see the beggars at your feet
[00:09.350] Look down and show some mercy if you can
[00:14.480] Look down and see the sweepings of the street
[00:21.170] Look down, look down,
[00:25.960] Upon your fellow man!
[00:27.820] 'Ow do you do? My name's Gavroche.
[00:30.990] These are my people. Here's my patch.
[00:34.520] Not much to look at, nothing posh
[00:37.090] Nothing that you'd call up to scratch.
[00:39.770] This is my school, my high society
[00:42.340] Here in the slums of Saint Michele
[00:46.030] We live on crumbs of humble piety
[00:47.650] Tough on the teeth, but what the hell!
[00:51.330] Think you're poor?
[00:52.640] Think you're free?
[00:54.030] Follow me! Follow me!
[00:56.720] Look down and show some mercy if you can
[01:01.650] Look down, look down, upon your fellow man!
[01:17.220] What you think yer at?
[01:18.540] Hanging round me pitch?
[01:19.850] If you're new around here, girl
[01:21.590] You've got a lot to learn!
[01:22.780] Listen you old bat...
[01:24.160] Crazy bloody witch...
[01:25.430] 'Least I give me customers
[01:26.870] Some pleasure in return!
[01:28.240] I know what you give!
[01:30.430] Give 'em all the pox!
[01:30.870] Spread around your poison
[01:32.000] Till they end up in a box.
[01:33.680] Leave the poor old cow,
[01:35.930] Move it, Madeleine.
[01:37.230] She used to be no better
[01:37.600] Till the clap got to her brain.
[01:39.170] When's it gonna end?
[01:41.360] When we gonna live?
[01:42.690] Something's gotta happen now or
[01:44.310] Something's gonna give
[01:45.310] It'll come, it'll come, it'll come
[01:47.060] It'll come, it'll come, it'll come
[01:50.440] Where the leaders of the land?
[01:52.990] Where are the swells who run this show?
[01:54.890] Only one man - and that's Lamarque
[01:58.250] Speaks for these people here below.
[02:01.070] See our children fed
[02:02.320] Help us in our shame
[02:03.690] Something for a crust of bread
[02:05.130] In Holy Jesus' name
[02:07.320] In the Lord's Holy name.
[02:07.630] In his name, in his name, in his name...
[02:10.320] Lamarque is ill and fading fast!
[02:12.550] Won't last the week out, so they say.
[02:15.360] With all the anger in the land
[02:17.810] How long before the judgement day?
[02:22.300] Before we cut the fat ones down to size?
[02:26.680] Before the barricades arise?
[02:37.110] Watch out for old Thenardier
[02:40.360] All of his family's on the make
[02:42.930] Once ran a hash-house down the way
[02:45.440] Bit of a swine and no mistake
[02:48.010] He's got a gang
[02:49.610] The bleeding layabout
[02:51.050] Even his daughter does her share
[02:54.240] That's Eponine, she knows her way about
[02:56.930] Only a kid, but hard to scare
[03:00.420] Do we care?
[03:01.750] Not a cuss
[03:03.060] Long live us.
[03:04.370] Long live us!
[03:05.690] Look down and show some mercy if you can
[03:10.680] Look down, look down upon your fellow man!