Disclaimer: I don't own Les Mis (duh).

And now I'm all alone again, nowhere to turn, no one to go to

With only India and Canada and Australia to say hello to

And now the night is near, I can make believe America's here

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Sometimes I sit alone at night when all of Buckingham is sleeping

I think of them and then I'm happy with the colonies I'm keeping

The empire never goes to bed, but I can live inside my head

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On my throne, pretending they're beside me

All alone, I restrict their rights till morning

Without them, I hear their praises fill me

They pledge their loyalty to me and do not want to kill me

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Every day, they send me gold and silver

And the sea 'tween us flows like a river

I look at this map I will have to rewrite

And all I see is them and me forever and forever.

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And I know it's only in my mind

That I'm decreeing to myself and not to them

And although they have been most unkind

Still I say, there's a way for us

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I love them, but when the war is over

They are gone, the ocean's wide as ever

Without them, the world around me changes

My coffers bare, and everywhere, my former subjects, strangers

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I love them, but every day I'm learning

All my life, I've only been pretending

Without me, their ports will go on trading

And revel in prosperity that I have never known

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I love them

I love them

I love them

But only on my throne.