So in love..

"And now I'm all alone again, nowhere to turn, no one to go to.
Without a home, without a friend, without a face to say 'hello' to.
And now the night is near,
Now I can make believe he's here.
Sometimes I walk alone at night
When everybody else is sleeping.
I think of him and then I'm happy
With the company I'm keeping.
The city goes to bed
And I can live inside my head.
On my own,
Pretending 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 talking 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 everywhere
The streets are full of strangers.
I love him
But everyday I'm learning
All my life
I've only been pretending.
Without me,
His world will go on turning--
A world that's full of happiness
That I have never known.
I love him.
I love him.
I love him,
But only on my own."

"Marius:

Good God, what are you doing?

'Ponine, have you no fear?

Have you seen my beloved?

Why have you come back here?

Eponine:

Took the letter like you said.

I met her father at the door.

He said he would give it--

I don't think I can stand anymore.

Marius:

Eponine, what's wrong?

There's something wet upon your hair.

Eponine, you're hurt!

You need some help!

Oh, God! It's everywhere!

Eponine:

Don't you fret, M'sieur Marius,

I don't feel any pain.

A little fall of rain

Can hardly hurt me now.

You're here, that's all I need to know.

And you will keep me safe,

And you will keep me close.

And rain will make the flowers grow.

Marius:

But you will live, 'Ponine, dear God above,

If I could heal your wounds with words of love!

Eponine:

Just hold me now, and let it be.

Shelter me, comfort me.

Marius:

You would live a hundred years

If I could show you how.

I won't desert you now..

Eponine:

The rain can't hurt me now.

The rain will wash away what's past,

And you will keep me safe,

And you will keep me close.

I'll sleep in your embrace at last.

The rain that brings you here

Is Heaven-Blessed!

The skies begin to clear and I'm at rest.

A breath away from where you are

I've come home from so far,

So don't you fret, M'sieur Marius.

I don't feel any pain,

A little fall of rain can hardly hurt me now.

That's all I need to know.

And you will keep me safe,

And you will keep me close.

Marius:

Hush-a-bye, dear Eponine,

You won't feel any pain.

A little fall of rain can hardly hurt you now.

I'm here.

I will stay with you til you are sleeping.

Both:

And rain will make the flowers...

Marius:

...grow.."

Holy crap.I am a major dork and I willingly admit that but seriously...honestly...this is so amazing.So sad.I won't try to deny that it made me cry in the theater. I have absolutely nothing against Cosette, and I love that she and Marius both live and end up together since they both love eachother so much, but there is also no denying that poor Eponine really loved Marius, too.She loved him so much, and she did so much for him, and thinking that he would die in the barricade, she wanted to die along with him.
Sigh...
As the musical says at one point, "To love another person is to see the face of God."
And the ending, as I already gushed about in the last post, was so incredible.To pair all of these things together and then to add that final reprise of Do You Hear The People Sing, where all the dead are living again together and singing, "They will live again in freedom in the garden of the Lord.."
How beautiful!