Karaoké In the Heights In the Heights (musical)

Lights up on Washington Heights up at the break of day

I wake up and I got this little punk I gotta chase away

Pop the grate at the crack of dawn

Sing while I wipe down the awning

Hey y'all, good morning

Ice cold piragua

Parcha, china, cherry, strawberry

And just for today

I got mamey

Oye, piragüero, como estas

Como siempre, Señor Usnavi

I am Usnavi and you probably never heard my name

Reports of my fame are greatly exaggerated

Exacerbated by the fact that my syntax is highly complicated 'cos I emigrated

From the single greatest little place in the Caribbean

Dominican Republic

I love it

Jesus, I'm jealous of it and beyond that

Ever since my folks passed on

I haven't gone back

Goddamn, I gotta get on that

Fo

The milk has gone bad hold up just a second

Why is everything in this fridge warm and tepid

I better step it up and fight the heat 'cos I'm not makin' any profit if the coffee isn't light and sweet

Abuela, my fridge broke

Wooh

I got café but no con leche

Try my mother's old recipe one can of condensed milk

Nice

Ah ay, paciencia y fe

That was Abuela she's not really my abuela

But she practically raised me this corner is her escuela

Now, you're probably thinkin'

I'm up shit's creek

I've never been north of Ninety-Sixth Street

Well, you must take the A Train even farther than Harlem to northern Manhattan and maintain

Get off at one eithy-first and take the escalator

I hope you're writing this down

I'm gonna test you later

I'm getting tested times are tough on this bodega

Two months ago somebody bought Ortega's

Our neighbors started packin' up and pickin' up

And ever since the rents went up

It's gotten mad expensive but we live with just enough

I serve café

Next up to bat, the Rosarios they run the cab company they struggle in the barrio

See, their daughter Nina's off at college tuition is mad steep so they can't sleep

Everything they get is mad cheap

Good morning, Usnavi

Pan caliente, café con leche

Put twenty dollars on today's lottery

One ticket, that's it

Hey

A man's gotta dream

Don't mind him, he's all excited 'cos Nina flew in at three A.M. last night

Don't look at me this one's been cooking all week

Usnavi, come over for dinner there's plenty to eat

There's plenty to eat

So then Yesenia walks in the room, aha

She smells sex and cheap perfume, oh oh

It smells like one of those trees that you hang from the rear view

Ha ha, no

It's true

She screams, who's in there with you, Julio

Grabs a bat and kicks in the door

He's in bed with José from the liquor store

No me diga

Daniela and Carla

No me diga from the salon

Thanks, Usnavi

Sonny, you're late

Chillax you know you love me

Me and my cousin runnin' just another dime-a-dozen mom-and-pop stop-and-shop

And, oh my God, it's gotten too darn hot like my man Cole Porter said

People come through for a few cold waters and

Lottery ticket, just a part of the routine

Everybody's got a job everybody's got a dream

They gossip, as I sip my coffee and smirk

The first stop as people hop to work

Bust it, I'm like

One dollar, two dollars one fifty, one sixty-nine

I got it, you want a box of condoms, what kind

That's two quarters

Two quarter waters

The New York Times you need a bag for that

The tax is added once you get some practice at it

You do rapid mathematics automatically

Sellin' maxipads, fuzzy dice for taxicabs and practically

Everybody's stressed, yes

But they press through the mess

Bounce checks and wonder what's next

You ain't got no skills

Benny

Yo, lemme get a Milky Way

Yeah, lemme also get a daily news and a post

And most important my boss' second coffee one cream, five sugars

I'm the number one earner

What

The fastest learner

What

My boss can't keep me on the damn back burner

Yes, he can

I'm makin' moves

I'm makin' deals but guess what

What

You still ain't got no skills

Hardee-har

Yo, Vanessa show up yet

Shut up

Hey little homie don't get so upset

Man

Tell Vanessa how you feel

Buy the girl a meal on the real or you ain't got no skills

No no no no

No no no no no no no no no no

No no no no no no no no no no no no no

Mister Johnson

I got the security deposit

It's locked in a box in the bottom of my closet

It's not reflected in my bank statement

But I've been savin' to make a down payment and pay rent

No, no, I won't let you down

I'll see you later

Yo, here's your chance ask her out right now we can look at that lease

Do somethin', make your move, don't freeze

Hey

You owe me a bottle of cold champagne

Are you moving

Just a little credit check and I'm on that downtown train

Well, your coffee's on the house

Usnavi, ask her out

Okay

No way

I'll see you later, so

Ooh, smooth operator

Aw damn, there she goes, yo bro

Take five, take a walk outside

You look exhausted, lost don't let life slide

The whole hood is struggling and times are tight

And you're stuck to this corner like a streetlight

Yeah, I'm a streetlight chokin' on the heat

The world spins around while I'm frozen to my seat

The people that I know all keep on rollin' down the street

But every day is different so I'm switchin' up the beat

'Cos my parents came with nothing they got a little more

And sure, we're poor, but yo at least we got the store

It's all about the legacy they left with me, it's destiny

And one day I'll be on a beach with Sonny writing checks to me

We came to work and to live and we got a lot in common

D.R., P.R., we are not stoppin'

Every day, paciencia y fe

Until the day we go from poverty to stock options

And today's all we got so we cannot stop

This is our block

Lo le lo le lo lo lai la le

My family came from miles away

Every day

But as for mañana, mi pana ya gotta just keep watchin'

You'll see the late nights

You'll taste beans and rice the syrups and shaved ice

I ain't gonna say it twice

Turn up the stage lights

We're takin' a flight to a couple of days in the life of what it's like