Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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ON MY OWN from LES MISERABLES
Tenor Piano Accompaniment with Recit section with Karaoke Lyrics in G Major. (+5 Semitones)

00:00 Recit section
01:05 Main Song

On My Own is a song from the musical Les Miserables. The music was written by Claude-Michel Schonberg whilst the lyrics were created by Trevor Nunn, John Caird, Herbert Kretzmer, Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel.

Lyrics :
[EPONINE]
And now I'm all alone again nowhere to go
No one to turn to
Without a home, without a friend
Without a face so 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 till 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 every day 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

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British pianist and arranger Tim J. Spencer has created, in The Accompanist, a collection of Piano Accompaniments of Musical Theatre and Popular Music songs.

These Broadway and West End accompaniments have been specifically performed to match the tempos of the original (cast) recordings where possible. These karaoke style tracks have been created to give the audition performer the sound of what is likely within an audition environment where often we are not faced with a full orchestra but simply a pianist. Therefore the songs can sound very different to the fully orchestrated version.

The tracks are designed to be used either in performance or as practice for auditions. You are more than welcome to use the track to create your own YouTube cover of the song. If you could put a link back to this video in your description that would be amazing of you. I'm creating a playlist on my channel page of covers using The Accompanist's tracks so let me know if you do a cover using it and I'll add it to this channel's covers playlist.

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