Karaoké Non-Stop Hamilton

After the war I went back to New York

A-after the war I went back to New York

I finished up my studies and I practiced law

I practiced law

Burr worked next door

Even though we started at the very same time

Alexander Hamilton

Began to climb

How to account for his rise to the top?

Man the man is

Gentlemen of the jury

I'm curious bear with me

Are you aware

That we're making history?

This is the first murder trial of our brand-new nation

The liberty behind deliberation

I intend to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt

With my assistant counsel

Co-counsel Hamilton sit down our client

Levi Weeks is innocent

Call your first witness that's all you had to say

Okay one more thing

Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?

Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?

Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?

Soon that attitude may be your doom

Why do you write like you're running out of time?

Write day and night

Like you're running out of time?

Every day you fight like you're running out of time

Keep on fighting in the meantime

Corruption's such an old song that we can sing along in harmony

And nowhere is it stronger than in Albany

This colony's economy's

Increasingly stalling and honestly that's why public service seems

To be calling me

I practiced the law

I practicaly perfected it

I've seen injustice in the world and I've corrected it

Now for a strong central

Democracy if not then I'll be Socrates throwing verbal rocks

At these mediocrities

I was chosen for

Hamilton at the

Constitutional Convention the Constitutional Convention

There as a New York junior delegate

Now what I'm gonna say may sound indelicate

Goes and proposes his own form of government

His own plan for

A new form of government

Talks for six hours the convention is listless

Why do you always say what you believe?

Why do you always

Say what you believe?

Every proclamation guarantees free ammunition

For your enemies

Why do you write like it's going out of style?

Write day and night like it's going out of style?

Every day you fight

Like it's going out of style

Do what you do

Alexander?

Aaron Burr Sir

Can we confer Sir?

Well it's the middle of the night

Is this a legal matter?

Yes, and it's important to me

What do you need?

Okay

Burr you're a better lawyer than me

I know I talk too much

I'm abrasive

You're incredible in court

You're succinct, persuasive my client needs a strong defense

You're the solution

The new U.S. Constitution

Who's your client?

Hear me out

No

No way

A series of essays anonymously published defending the document

To the public

I disagree

No one will read it

And if it fails?

Burr that's why we need it

The constitution's a mess

So it needs amendments

So is independence

It's full of contradictions

We have to start somewhere

No, no way

You're making a mistake

Hey, what are you waiting for?

Good night

What do you stall for?

What?

We won the war

What was it all for?

Do you support this constitution?

Of course

Then defend it

And what if you're backing

The wrong horse?

Burr, we studied and we fought and we killed for the notion of a nation

We now get to build

For once in your life take a stand with pride

I don't understand how you stand to the side

I'll keep all my plans close to my chest

I'll wait here and see which way the wind will blow

I'm taking my time watching the afterbirth

Of a nation

Watching the tension grow

I am sailing off to London

I'm accompanied by someone

Who always pays

I have found a wealthy husband

Who will keep me in comfort for all my days

He is not a lot of fun but there's no one

Who can match you for turn of phrase

My Alexander

Angelica don't forget to write

Look at where you are

Look at where you started

The fact that you're alive is a miracle

Just stay alive

That would be enough

And if your wife could share a fraction of your time

If I could grant you peace of mind

Would that be enough?

Alexander joins forces with James Madison

And John Jay to write a series of essays

Defending the new United

States Constitution entitled

The Federalist papers

The plan was to write

A total of twenty-five essays the work divided evenly

Among the three men

In the end

They wrote eighty-five essays in the span of six months

John Jay got sick after writing five

James Madison wrote twenty-nine

Hamilton wrote the other fifty-one

How do you write like you're running out of time?

Write day and night like you're running out of time?

Every day you fight like you're running out of time

Like you're running out of time

Are you running out of time?

How do you write like tomorrow won't arrive?

How do you write like you need it to survive?

How do you write every second you're alive?

Every second you're alive

Every second you're alive

They are asking me to lead

I am doing the best I can

To get the people that I need

I'm asking you to be

My right hand man

Treasury or State?

I know it's a lot to ask

Treasury or State?

To leave behind the world you know

Sir, do you want me to run the Treasury

Or State department?

Treasury

Let's go

Alexander

I have to leave

Alexander

Look around, look around at how lucky we are

To be alive right now

Helpless

They are asking me to lead

Look around

Isn't this enough?

He will never be satisfied

He will never be satisfied satisfied, satisfied

Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?

Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?

Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room?

Soon that attitude's gonna be your doom

Why do you write like you're running out of time?

Why do you fight like history has its eyes on you

I am not throwin' away my shot

I am not throwin' away my shot

I am Alexander Hamilton

I am not throwin' away my shot