A/N: I know Valjean wasn't at Marius and Cosette's wedding, but this is just what I imagine him thinking while they were getting married…
Gillenormand: All right, all right, that's what I'm talking about! Now everyone give it up for the father of the bride, Ultime Fauchelevent!
Valjean: A toast to the groom
Company: To the groom, to the groom, to the groom
Valjean: To the bride
Company: To the bride, to the bride, to the bride
Valjean: From your father
Company: Ultime Fauchelevent
Valjean: Who is always by your side
Company: By your side, by your side
Valjean: To your union
Company: To your union (Les Amis ghosts: To the revolution!)
Valjean: And the hope that you provide
Company: You provide, you provide
Valjean: May you always (always) be satisfied
Company: Rewind…
Valjean & Eponine: I remember that night, I just might, I remember that night, I just might
I remember that night, I remember that -
I remember that night, I just might regret that night for the rest of my days
I remember those student boys shouting in the streets and building barricades
I remember that dreamlike lantern light, like a dream that you can't quite place
Eponine: But M'sieur Marius, I'll never forget the first time I saw your face
I have never been the same, intelligent eyes found my hunger-pang frame
And when you said hi, I forgot my dang name
Set my heart aflame, every part aflame, this is not a game
Marius: You strike me as a girl who knows her way around
Eponine: I'm sure I don't know what you mean, you forget yourself
Marius: I need help finding someone in this town
Eponine: Is that right? I know my way around
Marius: My name's Marius Pontmercy
Eponine: Eponine Thenardier
Marius: Where's your family stay?
Eponine: Unimportant, but Javert is on the way, so get away, get away
So so so - so this is what it feels like to match wits with a student and a lawyer
What the hell is the catch? It's the feeling of freedom, of seeing the light
It's Ben Franklin with a key and a kite! You see it, right?
The conversation lasted two minutes, maybe three minutes
Everything we said in total agreement
It's a dream and it's a bit of a dance, a bit of a posture, a bit of a stance
I'm trying to flirt, but he won't give me a chance
He asked about my family, and I couldn't answer
My hands started fidgeting, I looked askance
We're penniless, we're flying by the seat of our pants.
Handsome, and boy does he know it, peach fuzz and he can't even grow it
Valjean: I wanna get us far away from this place
Then I turn and see my daughter's face and she is
Cosette: Helpless
Eponine: And I know he is
Marius: Helpless
Valjean: And her eyes are just
Cosette: Helpless
Eponine: And I realize
Valjean & Eponine: Three fundamental truths at the exact same time
Marius: Where are you taking me?
Eponine: I'm about to change your life.
Marius: Then by all means, lead the way.
Company: Number one!
Valjean: She's a girl in a world in which her only job is to marry rich
Locked up in a convent she'll have no fun, living like a nun
'Cause she's the sweetest and the prettiest, and the gossip here in Paris is insidious
And I used to be penniless, but that wouldn't make her love me any less
Cosette: Cosette Fauchelevent. It's a pleasure to meet you.
Marius: Cosette?
Eponine: We were children together…
Company: Number two!
Eponine: He's after her 'cause she's a flawless beauty
She has a lot of status, I'd have to be naive to set that aside, maybe that is why
I introduce him to Cosette, now that's his bride
Nice going, 'Ponine, your dad was right, you will never be satisfied
Cosette: Thank you for what you're doing.
Marius: If it takes fighting a revolution for us to meet, it will have been worth it.
Eponine: I'll leave you to it.
Company: Number three!
Valjean: I know my daughter like I know my own mind
You will never find anyone as trusting or as kind
If I let him die tomorrow, she'd be silently resigned, stay confined
She would say "I'm fine", she'd be lying
Eponine: But when I fantasize at night, it's Marius's eyes
As I romanticize what might have been if I hadn't sized him up so quickly
At least now Marius has a wife
Valjean: At least I keep her eyes in my life…
Eponine: To the groom!
Company: To the groom, to the groom, to the groom
Valjean: To the bride!
Company: To the bride, to the bride, to the bride
Valjean: From your father
Eponine: And Eponine
Company: (Your father/And Eponine)
Valjean: Who is always by your side
Company: By your side, by your side
Eponine: To your union!
Company: To the union! (Les Amis ghosts: To the revolution!)
Valjean: And the hope that you provide
Company: You provide, you provide
Valjean & Eponine: May you always (always) be satisfied.
And I know (she'll/he'll) be happy at (his/her) side
And I know I will never be satisfied, I will never be satisfied.
