Hamilton: El Musical

Meet Me Inside

HAMILTON
Lee, do you yield?

BURR
You shot him in the side!
Yes, he yields!

LAURENS
I’m satisfied.

BURR
Yo, we gotta clear the field!

HAMILTON
Go! We won.

COMPANY
Here comes the General!

BURR
This should be fun.

WASHINGTON
What is the meaning of this?
Mr. Burr, get a medic for the General.

BURR
Yes, sir.

WASHINGTON
Lee, you will never agree with me,
but believe me,
these young men don’t speak for me.
Thank you for your service.

BURR
Let’s ride!

WASHINGTON
Hamilton!

HAMILTON
Sir!

WASHINGTON
Meet me inside.

COMPANY
Meet him inside!
Meet him inside!
Meet him inside, meet him, meet him inside!

WASHINGTON
Son—

HAMILTON
Don’t call me son.

WASHINGTON
This war is hard enough
without infighting—

HAMILTON
Lee called you out.
We called his bluff.

WASHINGTON
You solve nothing,
you aggravate our allies to the south.

HAMILTON
You’re absolutely right.
John should have shot him in the mouth.
That would’ve shut him up.

WASHINGTON
Son—

HAMILTON
I’m notcha son—

WASHINGTON
Watch your tone.
I am not a maiden in need of defending,
I am grown.

HAMILTON (OVERLAPPING)
Charles Lee, Thomas Conway,
these men take your name and they rake it
through the mud.

WASHINGTON
My name’s been through a lot,
I can take it.

HAMILTON
Well, I don’t have your name.
I don’t have your titles.
I don’t have your land.
But, if you—

WASHINGTON
No—

HAMILTON
If you gave me command of a battalion, a group of men to lead, I could fly above my station after the war.

WASHINGTON
Or you could die and we need you alive.

HAMILTON
I’m more than willing to die—

WASHINGTON
Your wife needs you alive, son!
I need you alive—

HAMILTON
Call me son one more time!

WASHINGTON
Go home, Alexander...
That’s an order from your commander.

HAMILTON
Sir—

WASHINGTON
Go home.