On My Own
from Les
Miserable
Music by Claude-Michel
Schonberg
Original Text by Alain
Boubil
Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer
On my own,
Pretening he's beside me.
All alone
I walk with him 'til morning.
Without him
I feel his arms around me.
And when I lose my way
I close my eyes
And he has found me.
In the rain,
the pavement shines like silver.
All the lights
are misty in the river.
In the darkness
the trees are full of starlight.
And all I see is him and me
forever and forever.
¡@
And I know it's only in my
mind
that I'm taking to myself and
not to him.
And although I know that he
is blind,
Still I say there's a way for
us.
¡@
I love him,but when the night
is over,
he is gone,
the river's just a river.
Without him the world around
me changes.
The trees are bare and evr'ywhere
the streets are full of strangers.
I love him but ev'ry day I'm
learning.
All my life I've only been
pretending.
Without me his world will go
on turning.
The world is full of happiness
that I have never known.
I love him,
But only on my own.
