| EPONINE
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| Don’t you fret, Monsieur Marius,
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| I don’t feel any pain.
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| A little fall of rain
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| Can hardly hurt me now.
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| You’re here, that’s all I need to know.
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| And you will keep me safe,
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| And you will keep me close,
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| And rain will make the flowers grow.
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| MARIUS
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| But you will live, 'Ponine,
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| Dear God above!
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| If I could heal your wounds with words of love!
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| EPONINE
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| Just hold me now, and let it be,
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| Shelter me,
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| Comfort me…
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| MARIUS
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| You would live a hundred years
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| If I could show you how.
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| I won’t desert you now.
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| EPONINE
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| The rain can’t hurt me now.
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| This rain will wash away what’s past!
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| And you will keep me safe,
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| And you will keep me close,
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| I’ll sleep in your embrace at last!
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| The rain that brings you here is heaven-blessed!
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| The skies begin to clear and I’m at rest.
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| A breath away from where you are,
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| I’ve come home from so far…
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| EPONINE
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| So don’t you fret, Monsieur Marius,
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| I don’t feel any pain.
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| A little fall of rain
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| Can hardly hurt me now.
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| MARIUS (singing in counterpoint to Eponine)
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| Hush-a-bye, dear Eponine,
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| You won’t feel any pain.
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| A little fall of rain
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| Can hardly hurt you now.
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| MARIUS
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| I’m here,
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| EPONINE
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| That’s all I need to know.
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| EPONINE
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| And you will keep me safe,
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| And you will keep me close,
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| MARIUS (in counterpoint)
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| I will stay with you,
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| 'Til you are sleeping…
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| EPONINE
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| And rain,
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| MARIUS
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| And rain,
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| EPONINE
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| Will make the flowers…
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| MARIUS
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| Will make the flowers… grow. |