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Don't think about tomorrow

We've only got today

She knew she was going to die. She didn't protest or plead for God to let her live. She was fine with dying. Now Marius could be with his beloved Cosette and she could be free. So she lived in the moment. Every breath was sacred. Every extra second she had left on Earth she would use to her advantage.

There's nothing that I want from you

Not a word you have to say

She didn't want his words. She wanted his love, but he could not give it to her. However, she confessed. She told him that she loved him, even though she knew that he would never love her back.

You are all I need

And all I can defend

All I need to hold on to

If the world should end

The rain fell softly on her face and his. She was finally content now that she was at last resting in his arms.

In my imagination

I could not have made this up

Before, she had only dreamed of sleeping in his embrace. Now she would at last, though not in the way she had originally planned. He didn't hold her as an act of love, but as friendship and kindness and reassurance.

In a world stranger than fiction

Ours is no fictional love

The world was strange. In fiction, the protagonists always prevailed, defeating the opposers. But they, the people who fought for a free nation, were dying. She knew they would not win. They were outnumbered fifty to one.

I can see the you

Under your second skin

I can feel your heart beat quicken

Quicken and then slow

He was crying now too. Why are you crying, Marius? she thought. I'm going to a better place now. I did not think that you would miss me.

There's nothing else I need to know

And there's nothing

You need to pretend

If the world should end

She didn't want him to pretend that he loved her. She knew that he didn't. His heart would always belong to Cosette. But as long as he was holding her, it would be alright.

And the sky tonight is luminous

for all the wrong reasons

And every doorway is hiding something

The people! Where were the people of France? They should be helping to fight! not sitting in their homes behind closed doors waiting for the gunshots to pass!

And if this world should all

Come crashing down

I wouldn't care at all

She wouldn't care because she was safe at last. Far away from the horrible world.

And if there's no tomorrow

I'll have today again

Far, far away from the people who hated her and her friends.

There's no time for sorrow

When there's no such thing as time

Nothing existed anymore.

And if the darkness will descend

Don't need a savior or a friend

I can say I've really loved

If the world should end