Hamilton: El Musical

Non-Stop

BURR
After the war I went back to New York

HAMILTON
A-After the war I went back to New York

BURR
I finished up my studies and I practiced law

HAMILTON
I practiced law,
Burr worked next door

BURR
Even though we started at the very same time
Alexander Hamilton began to climb
How to account for his rise to the top?
Maaaaan! the man is

BURR & ENSEMBLE
Non-stop!

HAMILTON
Gentlemen of the jury,I’m curious, bear with me
Are you aware that we’re making hist’ry?
This is the first murder trial of our
brand-new nation
The liberty behind Deliberation—

ENSEMBLR
Non-stop!

HAMILTON
I intend to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt
With my assistant counsel—

BURR
Co-counsel
Hamilton, sit down
Our client Levi Weeks is innocent. 
Call your first witness
That’s all you had to say!

HAMILTON
Okay!
One more thing—

BURR
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!

ENSEMBLE
Awwww!

BURR with ENSEMBLE
Why do you write like you’re running out of time?
Write day and night like you’re running out of time?
Ev’ry day you fight, like you’re running out of time
Keep on fighting. In the meantime—

ENSEMBLE
Non-stop!

HAMILTON
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

HAMILTON & BURR/ENSEMBLE
Honestly, that’s why public service
Seems to be calling me
He's just non-stop!

HAMILTON
I practiced the law,
I practic’ly 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

BURR
Hamilton, at the Constitutional Convention:

HAMILTON
I was chosen for the Constitutional Convention!

BURR
There as a New York junior delegate:

HAMILTON 
Now what I’m going to say may sound indelicate…