Alexander Hamilton

[Hamilton]
I imagine death so much
It feels more like a memory
When's it's gonna get me?
In my sleep? Seven feet ahead of me?
If I see it coming,
Do I run or do I let it be?
Is it like a beat without a melody?

See, I never thought I'd live past twenty
Where I come from some get half as many
Ask anybody why we livin' fast and we laugh,
Reach for a flask
We have to make this moment last,
That's plenty

Scratch that
This is not a moment, it's the movement
Where all the hungriest brothers with something to prove went
Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand
We roll like Moses, claimin' our Promised Land
And if we win our independence?
'Zat a guarantee of freedom for our descendants?
Or will the blood we shed begin an endless
Cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants?

I know the action in the street is excitin'
But Jesus, between all the bleedin' 'n fightin'
I've been readin' 'n writin'
We need to handle our financial situation
Are we a nation of states? What's the state of our nation?
I'm past patiently waitin'
I'm passionately smashin' every expectation
Every action's an act of creation
I'm laughin' in the face of casualties and sorrow
For the first time, I'm thinkin' past tomorrow

[Washington]
It’s alright you want to fight, you’ve got a hunger
I was just like you when I was younger
Head full of fantasies of dying like a martyr.

[Hamilton]
Yes.

[Washington]
Dying is easy, young man; living is harder.

[Hamilton] I may not live to see our glory!

[Lafayette/Mulligan/Laurens] I may not live to see our glory!

[Hamilton] But I will gladly join the fight!

[Lafayette/Mulligan/Laurens] But I will gladly join the fight!

[Hamilton] And when our children tell our story…

[Lafayette/Mulligan/Laurens] And when our children tell our story…

[Burr]
Well, the word got around, they said,
«This kid is insane, man»
Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland.
«Get your education, don’t forget from whence you came,
And the world is gonna know your name.
What’s your name, man?»

[Hamilton]
Alexander Hamilton.
My name is Alexander Hamilton.
And there’s a million things I haven’t done,
But just you wait, just you wait...

[Hamilton]
Pardon me. Are you Aaron Burr, sir?

[Burr]
That depends who’s asking

[Hamilton]
Oh, well, sure, sir
I’m Alexander Hamilton, I’m at your service, sir
I have been looking for you

[Burr]
I’m getting nervous

[Hamilton]
Sir…

[Hamilton]
I heard your name at Princeton.
I was seeking an accelerated course of study when I got sort of out of sorts with a buddy of yours.
I may have punched him. It’s a blur, sir.
He handles the financials?

[Burr]
You punched the bursar

[Hamilton]
Yes!

[Hamilton]
I wanted to do what you did.
Graduate in two, then join the revolution.
He looked at me like I was stupid, I’m not stupid

So how’d you do it?
How’d you graduate so fast?

[Burr]
It was my parents’ dying wish
Before they passed

[Hamilton]
You’re an orphan. Of course! I’m an orphan
God, I wish there was a war!
Then we could prove that we’re worth more
Than anyone bargained for…

[Hamilton, Lafayette, Mulligan, Laurens]
We are — meant to be

[Hamilton]
A colony that runs independently
Meanwhile, Britain keeps shitting on us endlessly
Essentially, they tax us relentlessly
Then King George turns around, runs a spending spree
He ain't never gonna set his descendants free
So there will be a revolution in this century
ENTER ME!

[Lafayette, Mulligan, Laurens]
(He says in parentheses)

[Hamilton]
Don't be shocked when your history book
Mentions me
I will lay down my life if it sets us free
Eventually you'll see my ascendancy

And I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
And I'm not throwing away my shot!

[Burr]
Geniuses, lower your voices
You keep out of trouble, and you double your choices
I'm with you, but the situation is fraught
You've got to be carefully taught:
If you talk, you're gonna get shot!

[Hamilton]
Burr, check what we got
Mr. Lafayette hard rock like Lancelot
I think your pants look hot
Laurens, I like you a lot
Let's hatch a plot
Blacker than the kettle callin' the pot
What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot
Poppin' a squat on conventional wisdom,
like it or not
A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists
Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is

Oh, am I talkin' too loud?
Sometimes I get over excited, shoot off at the mouth
I never had a group of friends before
I promise that I'll make y'all proud

[Hamilton]
It’s time to take a shot

[Hamilton, Mulligan, Laurens]
Rise up, rise up
It’s time to take a shot
Rise up, rise up
Time to take a shot
Rise up
Take a shot, a shot, a shot,
A-yo, it's time to take a shot
Time to take a shot
And I am
Not throwing away my

[Company]
Not throwing away my shot!

[Hamilton]
Yo!
He’d have you all unravel at the
Sound of screams but the
Revolution is comin’
The have-nots are gonna win this
It’s hard to listen to you with a straight face

Chaos and bloodshed already haunt us,
Honestly you shouldn’t even talk.
And what about Boston?
Look at the cost,
N’ all that we’ve lost
N’ you talk about Congress?!
My dog speaks more eloquently than thee!
But strangely, your mange is the same
Is he in Jersey?
For the revolution!

[Seabury]
Heed not the rabble
Who scream revolution,
They have not your interests at heart
Chaos and bloodshed are not a solution
Don’t let them lead you astray
This Congress does not speak for me
They’re playing a dangerous game
I pray the king shows you his mercy
For shame for shame

[Company] For the revolution!

[Seabury] Heed —

[Hamilton] If you repeat yourself again I’m gonna —

[Seabury] Scream —

[Hamilton] Honestly, look at me, please don’t read!

[Seabury] Not your interests —

[Hamilton] Don’t modulate the key then not debate with me!
Why should a tiny island across the sea regulate the price of tea?

[Burr] Alexander, please!

[Hamilton] Burr, I’d rather be divisive than indecisive,
Drop the niceties

[Company] Silence! A message from the King!
A message from the King!

[All] A message from the King!

[Hamilton] As a kid in the Caribbean I wished for a war
I knew that I was poor, I knew it was the only way to.

[Burr, Mulligan, Laurens, Lafayette] Rise up!

[Hamilton] If they tell my story
I am either gonna die on the battlefield in glory or

[Burr, Mulligan, Laurens, Lafayette] Rise up!

[Hamilton] I will fight for this land but there’s only one man
Who can give us a command, so we can.

[Burr, Mulligan, Laurens, Lafayette] Rise up!

[Hamilton] Understand, it’s the only way to.

[Burr, Mulligan, Laurens, Lafayette] Rise up, rise up!

[Hamilton]
Here he comes!

[Company]
Here comes the general!

[Burr]
Ladies and gentlemen!
The moment you’ve been waiting for!
The Pride of Mount Vernon!
George Washington!

[Washington]
We are out-gunned!
Out-manned!
Out-numbered,
Out-planned!
We gotta make an all-out stand
Hey yo I’m gonna need a right-hand man

Check it -

Can I be real a second?
For just a millisecond?
Let down my guard and tell the people how I feel a second?
Now I’m the model of a modern major general
The venerated Virginian veteran whose men are all
Lining up to put me up on a pedestal
Writing letters to relatives
Embellishing my elegance and eloquence
But the elephant is in the room,
The truth is in your face
When you hear the British cannons go (BOOM!)
Any hope of success is fleeting
How can I keep leading
When the people I’m leading keep retreating?
We put a stop to the bleeding
As the British take Brooklyn
Knight takes rook, but look

We are out-gunned!
Out-manned!
Out-numbered,
Out-planned!
We gotta make an all-out stand
Ayo, I’m gonna need a right-hand man

Incoming!

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