Alexander Hamilton

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Y/n POV
I ask Valencia "Should we do the real musical or the Animation?" She looks at me and says "Real one on Disney+" I nod and go to the Disney+ app on the TV. I go into my list and click on Hamilton. I click the "Restart" button and sit in the front by Valencia.

I click the remote and it starts.

[AARON BURR] How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore

"Wow. Love the insults." Says Hamilton, with as much sarcasm as you could possibly imagine.

and a

Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten

Spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, in squalor

Grow up to be a hero and a scholar? 

"I'm not a hero, am I?"

"Yes" I let you decide you said that.

[JOHN LAURENS]
The ten-dollar Founding Father without a father

Got a lot farther by working a lot harder

By being a lot smarter

By being a self-starter

By fourteen, they placed him in charge of a trading charter

[THOMAS JEFFERSON]
And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted

"Hate that slaves were a thing.. are they still nowadays?" Laurens asks. I reply "No, it's become illegal."

Away across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up

Inside, he was longing for something to be a part of

The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter

"Hey! That's illegal! I trained my son better than that!" Washington yells. "I'm not your son, plus this is before I met you." Hamilton.

[JAMES MADISON]
Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned

Our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain

Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain

And he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain 

[BURR]
Well, the word got around, they said, "This kid is insane, man"

"Probably because of your dramatic writing." I say. "You've read my writings?" Wonders Hamilton. "Yes, I read a little bit of your writing about the hurricane. It was so dramatic." I state.

Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland

"Get your education, don't forget from whence you came, and

The world's gonna know your name. What's your name, man?"

Hamilton says 'Alexander Hamilton' at the same time Lin does.

[ALEXANDER 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... 

[ELIZA HAMILTON]
When he was ten his father split, full of it, debt-ridden

Hamilton realized what it was about to talk about started to tear up.

Two years later, see Alex and his mother bed-ridden

Half-dead sittin' in their own sick, the scent thick 

[FULL COMPANY EXCEPT HAMILTON (whispering)]
And Alex got better but his mother went quick

[GEORGE WASHINGTON & COMPANY, BOTH]
Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide

Left him with nothin' but ruined pride, something new inside

A voice saying

"Alex, you gotta fend for yourself."

He started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf 

[BURR & COMPANY, BOTH]
There would have been nothin' left to do

For someone less astute

He woulda been dead or destitute

Without a cent of restitution

Started workin', clerkin' for his late mother's landlord

Tradin' sugar cane and rum and all the things he can't afford

Scammin' for every book he can get his hands on

Plannin' for the future see him now as he stands on (ooh)

The bow of a ship headed for a new land

In New York you can be a new man

"That's true."

[COMPANY & HAMILTON, WOMEN, MEN]
In New York you can be a new man (Just you wait)

In New York you can be a new man (Just you wait)

In New York you can be a new man

In New York, New York

Just you wait! 

[COMPANY]
Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)

We are waiting in the wings for you (waiting in the wings for you)

You could never back down

You never learned to take your time!

Oh, Alexander Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)

When America sings for you

"Half of America did start singing for you in 2015, and will for a long time." Says Valencia.

Will they know what you overcame?

Will they know you rewrote the game?

The world will never be the same, oh 

"That's true, the world hasn't been the same."

[BURR, MEN, & COMPANY]
The ship is in the harbor now

See if you can spot him

Just you wait

Another immigrant

Comin' up from the bottom

"There's Lafayette! The other immigrant. I hate that people don't like immigrants anymore." I say, remembering that that was a reason to vote trump.

Just you wait

His enemies destroyed his rep

America forgot him

[MULLIGAN/MADISON & LAFAYETTE/JEFFERSON]
We fought with him 

"This is double meaning area. Mulligan and Lafayette because they fought with him in the war. Madison and Jefferson because they fought him in cabinet meetings."

[LAURENS/PHILIP]
Me? I died for him 

"W-what..?!" Says Hamilton. I force a smile while remembering the songs.

[WASHINGTON]
Me? I trusted him 

"Still do." Says Washington
[ELIZA & ANGELICA & PEGGY/MARIA]
Me? I loved him 

Eliza looks at Angelica and Peggy, "As family and friends."

[BURR]
And me? I'm the damn fool that shot him 

"YOU SHOT ME?!"

[COMPANY]
There's a million things I haven't done

But just you wait! 

[BURR]
What's your name, man? 

[COMPANY]
Alexander Hamilton!

"God, I love this musical." Me and Valencia say.

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