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What do you have to say? PIERRE This man's a witch That day he came The rains began I brought the rain, he said ARNAUD But that's a lie MADAME DE ROLS He told us that he was Martin ARNAUD It's you who did PIERRE This man's a Protestant, my Lord CATHOLICS He must be hanged, my Lord PROTESTANTS Listen My Lord listen To this outrage He is innocent My Lord CATHOLICS (overlapping with above) The man's a Protestant my lord He told us he was Martin Guerre PIERRE AND CATHOLICS He must be hanged like demons are JUDGE It's I who will decide his fate! Call the first witness.  State your name. MATILDE Matilde... JUDGE You know the defendant? MATILDE When he was young I know he had A wart It's on his thumb perhaps he'll show The court ARNAUD Matilde is right, I had a wart my Lord Until some soldier caught me with His sword BAPTISTE My Lord... He had a mark Beneath his nose If you look close The mark still shows ARNAUD And sad to say, the mark still Grows... JEANNE Satan's mark! GALOCHE I am the cobbler and unless I'm Drunk He's someone else, my Lord, or else He's shrunk! ARNAUD Lord above! GUILLAUME And if he has I swear to God this Proves ARNAUD This proves what?! GUILLAUME The Devil's work has brought him Cloven hooves ANDRÉ When he came back You would fight to wash his feet CATHERINE As if he were the very son of God ARNAUD My Lord, for once my life seemed so Complete EMILE Listen to Guillaume! GUILLAUME Martin Guerre never touched a girl ARNAUD He speaks the truth, I was too young To love But as you've heard I've wasted no More time... JUDGE Enough! Bring Benoit.  I have some questions... Monsieur, take the stand Now Benoit You were there that day In the forest, all alone BENOIT I was not My Louison was with me JUDGE We may call her later on WHO? JUDGE Silence!  Benoit.  Who is this man? BENOIT Who knows who you know And who knows if it's you I now I have a name But who knows if it's true? I have one name But all of you have two So who knows Don't even know who chose My name, was it you? If I call him Martin then he's Martin To me If he calls me Benoit then I'd have to Agree Who? VILLAGERS Who? BENOIT He's who? VILLAGERS Who? BENOIT Who he? VILLAGERS No! BENOIT I see, who is he? VILLAGERS You will see what happens If you play this game You will hang beside the man Who stole a name JUDGE Let him finish what he has to say He's doing the best that he can Now tell me Benoit, who is this man? FATHER DOMINIC His name, Benoit! EMILE Come on fool! VILLAGERS Speak Benoit speak! BENOIT Who knows who is who You never know for sure And now you ask for me You never asked before You call me fool I know that's not my name See, it's strange Names can always change Yet I'm still the same Who can say why Louison has such Beautiful hair? Can I know who he is if I'm not Martin Guerre? Who? VILLAGERS Who? BENOIT He's who? VILLAGERS Who? BENOIT Who he? VILLAGERS No! BENOIT I see, who is he? VILLAGERS You will see what happens If you play this game You will hang beside a man Who stole a name JUDGE I will have ev'ry one of you thrown Our of court If this turmoil happens once more Just tell the truth, you're Protected in here Tell me now! Benoit, who is this man? BENOIT Yes!  He's who you all want him to be For you I'M MARTIN GUERRE (reprise) ARNAUD Look, I'm Martin Guerre That's what I said You thought me dead When I arrived Yes, I'm Martin Guerre When I appeared You danced and cheered That I'd survived Now you will see A man can choose to be free You all look for someone to blame But I swear it aloud, I will be proud That Martin Guerre is my name I'm a Protestant, sir This is true, I confess I have lied for my faith I've been tortured for less And no one took the blame... JUDGE I'm not here to judge your faith But whether you've stolen a name ARNAUD Look, I'm Martin Guerre The Lord above The Lord I love Has kept me strong Yes, I'm Martin Guerre I'll stand my ground For now I've found Where I  belong Now you will see A man can choose to be free You all look for someone to blame But I swear it aloud, I will be proud That Martin Guerre is my name CATHOLICS But can't you see the Devil's eyes my Lord Don't trust a man whose life is such A fraud PIERRE He stole our name and he abused a Wife MADAME DE ROLS Is it too much to ask, to take his life! PROTESTANTS Let him live He's the best of us GUILLAUME He's a witch and nothing more PROTESTANTS Bless his soul CATHOLICS Yet he has no soul to bless PROTESTANTS He has courage in his heart CATHOLICS We were tricked PROTESTANTS He has courage in his soul And if you want the truth It's true, we all are Protestants like Him JUDGE It's a court, not a church, I'm a judge, Not a priest All I want is the truth, to above all Be fair And your God-fearing fights have no Place in this room It is time that you speak now, Madame Bertrande Guerre Madame, what is the truth? ALL THAT I LOVE BERTRANDE It is easy to say Just as night becomes day The truth's here before me for All that I love, all that I know In God's name I swear This is the man I gave my life to All that I love, all that I trust Is here to stay beside me And the child that will bear his Name I prayed for the day he would grow To be strong The day he would know he could Love and belong He answered my prayers, who can say Love is wrong? All that I need, all that I've planned Returned to his land and made my Life worth living All that I love ARNAUD I will always be here BERTRANDE All that I know ARNAUD Let a new life begin BERTRANDE All that I need BERTRANDE AND ARNAUD That I knew From the start Would belong In my heart All that is true All that is strong I'll spend my life loving you JUDGE Words Words of love Where's the truth? Your love is true, this I see This is not what justice needs to Know For still all we need is his name There is no one to speak There is nothing to say The night is full of questions The answers will come with the day The USHER evacuates the courtroom.  The JUDGE sits alone at his desk. THE IMPOSTER IS HERE JUDGE She loved this man the way each man Wants to be loved once in his life Is he the man she says he is? Has he fooled her?  Could he fool Me? In a village of bitter fools Is there room for the truth Are they ready to hear it? Who is the imposter here? All I've heard is endless pleading Is there any room for truth? Where are all these questions Leading? Layer on layer of blatant lies Fighting while the truth lies Bleeding Someone in this room must pay Someone who is the imposter here GUILLAUME AND CATHOLICS Who is the imposter here? Can't he see this man is lying? Hang him now!  Who needs a judge We can see our land is dying Protestants, imposters here Time has come to start the fighting ANDRÉ AND PROTESTANTS (overlapping with the above) Time has come to start the fighting GUILLAUME AND CATHOLICS Kill them all and free Bertrande When we're done with the imposter Here The imposter is here ALL CATHOLICS The imposter is here PAUL AND JEANNE The imposters are you and I I wish I loved you still Like these two love each other PROTESTANTS There are no imposters here Open as the man who'll lead us Now that we've revealed our faith Now's the hour our faith will need Us Stand as he stood, proud and close Pray for him and God will heed us We must fight the holy fight We will not be the imposters here! CATHOLICS (overlapping with the above) They are the imposters here Now that they've revealed their Faith Hang him, bleed him, kill him, save us We will not be the imposters here EVERYONE The imposter is here The imposter must die MADAME DE ROLS It's a Protestant child! CATHOLICS Hang him PROTESTANTS Lord!  Free him May they live in peace FATHER DOMINIC Help me God, all this sin As they call your name Have I done all I can Or am I to blame? CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS Praying God from our hearts We will die for our Lord We will fight to the last We will fight by his sword For our God above We'll kill to prove our love Who is the imposter here? There is no one we can trust now JUDGE AND EVERYONE Who is the imposter here? All we've heard is endless pleading Is there any room for truth? Where are all these questions Leading? Layer on layer of blatant lies Fighting while the truth lies Bleeding Someone in this room must pay Someone who is the imposter here CATHOLICS The imposter is here PROTESTANTS He has taught us to fight EVERYONE The imposter is here MADAME DE ROLS Like a witch in the night EVERYONE Who is the imposter here? THE FINAL WITNESS JUDGE Never have I heard such a pitiful Case The law demands dignity, never Disgrace I have heard all you've said, ev'ry lie Ev'ry grudge On the word of one man there is no Case to judge USHER Please, your honour If I may... There's a man, won't go away Travelled far and wants a word Claims his story should be heard JUDGE What's his name? USHER He won't say JUDGE Let him in... Your name.  State your name. MARTIN My name is Guerre.  Martin Guerre. MARTIN is interrogated but still the JUDGE is not satisfied. JUDGE Bertrande, you've listened to these Men We need the truth, the time has Come PIERRE I knew the truth, I knew my blood GUILLAUME The truth is all she needs is me BERTRANDE (to Arnaud) If you have lied to me... Have you lied to me? No, you would not lie MADAME DE ROLS He's lied to us all, Bertrande Now tell us the truth THE WHOLE VILLAGE We need the truth, we need it now BERTRANDE The truth is not enough The truth does not explain The truth...what is the truth? MADAME DE ROLS My little girl... JUDGE Tell us, Bertrande THE WHOLE VILLAGE Tell us the truth... ARNAUD I am Arnaud du Thil. THE VERDICT ARNAUD I have lied to you all so I could Steal another man's life When you called me the Devil that's When you knew my name I've cast evil spells on you all, I'm Satan's child And I've stolen a woman who never Knew I was not Martin Just let her go She's not to blame EMILE She's Satan's whore! CATHERINE She is loved in the eyes of the Lord! BERTRANDE The day has come to end the lies You cannot take the blame alone The only truth I know - I love him I knew from the start he was not Martin Guerre MARTIN Yet once you loved me BERTRANDE You never loved me MARTIN If you had waited! ARNAUD Bertrande, believe me GUILLAUME Damn all their lies, the love they Steal ARNAUD I saw him die there GUILLAUME The scars I bear will never heal MARTIN AND ARNAUD The skies are clear now And all that we've known, that We've sworn Revealed by the light of the dawn MARTIN Still alone ARNAUD If you still love me MARTIN I'm betrayed by the friend that I Thought I knew ARNAUD Nothing can harm me BERTRANDE Martin, it's too late, I feel nothing For you... JUDGE I do not need to hear anymore Although this case has been made Clear There is nothing simple here What I see are three young souls All of them are guilty, but Obsessed with your religious wars You have carved them from your Hatred The three of them are victims here But none more so than Martin Guerre For though he shares some of the Blame You had no right to steal his name I sentence you to go to jail Till Martin Guerre decides your fate For only he can understand How much you've changed his life, Now you must wait As for you Madame Martin Guerre You are still your husband's wife Now your future lies in his hands ARNAUD is taken away.  MARTIN curses the villagers for their ignorance.  GUILLAUME, believing that ARNAUD should be hanged and still craving the love of BERTRANDE, incites the village to hatred telling them that both ARNAUD and MARTIN are Protestants. JUSTICE WILL BE DONE GUILLAUME Think of all our fathers Fighting for these lands Think of all your children Their future in our hands Shall they all be poisoned? Will you tell them why? Have we lost our courage? Will we let them die? Stand up for your homeland Proud beneath the sun In the heat of battle Justice will be done All that you have loved here Remember what you're worth All that you have worked for Grown within this earth Fields where you have laboured Soon will be defiled Plagues of sin will spread through The blood of ev'ry child Come the day of glory Fight until we've won If you love your country Justice will be done It is here, by your hands That the future is made We will claim what is ours By the stroke of the blade LUBIN AND GALOCHE They will die for their treason GUILLAUME They will die for their shame PAUL AND EMILE They will die by the sword GUILLAUME They will die by the flame! Bring them to the streets now Soon they'll run with blood Then we'll see they have no souls Red rivers bursting, see them flood Feel the touch of evil This is how it starts Satan's here within us Fighting for our hearts Let us join together Stand up one by one In the name of Jesus Justice will be done! CATHOLICS Bring them to the streets now Soon they'll run with blood Then we'll see they have no souls Red rivers bursting, see them flood Feel the touch of evil This is how it starts Satan's here within us Fighting for our hearts Let us join together Stand up one by one In the name of Jesus Justice will be done! Whipped up by GUILLAUME's words, the Catholics seize LOUISON and destroy her.  BENOIT is devastated and swears his revenge.  Meanwhile BERTRANDE goes to see ARNAUD in the jail. WHY? ARNAUD Bertrande, Bertrande Let me touch your face Who knows if I will ever see you Again? BERTRANDE I know you will, Our days will return Closer than ever And the waiting Will end ARNAUD If Martin should decide I will die for our love BERTRANDE He cannot have changed so much Since we were young ARNAUD But your life is with him BERTRANDE My life's with you ARNAUD With Martin Guerre BERTRANDE I'll have your child ARNAUD You are his wife BERTRANDE Please don't betray me, Arnaud You're the man that I love, I have Only one heart And that love is the child we made Together We must pay for we lied, but no judge Can decide Who a woman should love and love Forever ARNAUD AND BERTRANDE They day has come That we have to fight alone against The world The day will come When we'll tell our children how The fight was won MARTIN enters the jail. BERTRANDE Listen Martin, you must understand MARTIN (to Arnaud) You took my name, you took my life ARNAUD No, I came here, Martin To tell Bertrande the truth You gave your life for mine I saw you die And the words that you whispered Were to tell her you were sorry MARTIN Why did it have to be you? After all that we've lived through Thought I knew you as a friend ARNAUD Why did you tell me her name? Who can say why it happens Where it leads to in the end? BERTRANDE Why... MARTIN (to Bertrande) How I needed to see you BERTRANDE How can you talk of need? MARTIN All that I dreamed of... BERTRANDE All the years that I wasted While I waited just for you He - MARTIN What did he tell you? BERTRANDE Never lied to me once MARTIN That I wanted to try again BERTRANDE He would never deceive me He has told me all he knew MARTIN (to Arnaud) You were someone I trusted... Why - ARNAUD (to Martin) We fell in love BERTRANDE They all called him Martin ARNAUD They loved me so BERTRANDE AND ARNAUD All that I dreamed of since Childhood Soon, there was no turning back MARTIN (to Arnaud) But you knew how I felt BERTRANDE AND ARNAUD And the lie we were living MARTIN How I yearned BERTRANDE AND ARNAUD And forgiving MARTIN For my life BERTRANDE AND ARNAUD Brought us love MARTIN How I wanted a home BERTRANDE AND ARNAUD Why - MARTIN How I dreamed of a life of peace BERTRANDE AND ARNAUD Does it happen like this? MARTIN How I longed for a chance to find BERTRANDE AND ARNAUD That there's MARTIN, ARNAUD AND BERTRANDE Somewhere and someone where I Could find Passion and a lover and a gentle Friend MARTIN You find just one friend in a lifetime On your word I can always depend Where would I be Without you as a friend? My friend, your life is in my hands Now And yet you're the luckiest of men The life I left belongs to you now But still I'll save you once again So it seems We have come to the end I'll live my life Without you as a friend... MARTIN releases ARNAUD.  GUILLAUME sees MARTIN setting ARNAUD and BERTRANDE free.  In a wild frenzy, GUILLAUME instructs his Catholic supporters to burn the Protestant houses. THE BURNING (Instrumental) As Artigat burns the Protestants attack the Catholics and in the heat of the moment FATHER DOMINIC is fatally stabbed by ANDRÉ.  GUILLAUME seizes BERTRANDE and puts a knife against her throat. THE KILLING GUILLAUME Your lovely smile So full of grace Your perfect hair Your pretty face Bertrande I'll cut you free Free from the past ARNAUD Please understand All that you know All that you feel Don't let that love Turn into hate Love her enough To let her go GUILLAUME I've cried each night for ev'ry kiss Each hour you spent lying with Another man I'll cut you free The end's begun For you must die Justice be done! ARNAUD Leave her alone It's me you hate I'm here Guillaume MARTIN It's me you want I'm Martin Guerre GUILLAUME I'll mix your blood On this same blade MARTIN Then come to me MARTIN AND ARNAUD I'm Martin Guerre! GUILLAUME plunges his knife into ARNAUD.  But before GUILLAUME can reach MARTIN, BENOIT arrives and beats GUILLAUME to death with the crosspiece of LOUISON's body. ARNAUD dies in BERTRANDE's arms.  MARTIN kneels at ARNAUD's side. LIVE WITH SOMEBODY YOU LOVE (reprise) MARTIN You died for your love, what more Could you die for? And where would I be without you As a friend? You gave all with your life, there is No more to give For you died as a man who had Learn how to live He turns to the villagers. MARTIN He may have sinned, but what of you? You can't decree what others do With their lives He's neither saint nor witch but Just A soldier who had learnt to trust Hope survives I was lost as a child, only hate in my Heart As we fought side by side he taught Me to forgive Though my friend that lies here Took my life for his own He opened my eyes, I can still hear Him say... Live with somebody you love Let your love bless each day As the years slip away And you never can say goodbye Fill your soul with her light And you know that the night Will keep both of you blessed And who could have guessed Only God alone knew When my friend spoke of love He was speaking of you... BERTRANDE Live with somebody you love May your soul rest in peace As the years slip away Let our child bless each day While we pray to God's love And to you where you live In the heavens above EVERYONE Can we try to rebuild all we lost in The night? Please forgive us our sins, now we Pray to God's love And to you where you live in the Heavens above The End.