Lin-Manuel Miranda

Featuring: Henry Gainza

Songwriter: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Producer: Lin-Manuel Miranda

[NARRATION]
Lights go up on a subway car

[VANESSA]
On a Subway at 3 in the morning
And she’s the only soul awake
My reflection’s alone in the window
And I don’t recognize her face
She wipes mascara from her eyes
The train is tumbling through the night
Going home in the light of the station
She is gone

She is a phantom in the glass
Watching another subway pass
And beyond the window’s reflection
There’s a train in the other direction

Woah-Oh-Oh
Rewind Tonight
Take me in that other car and take me towards the light
If I could ride another track
Go back and time and take tonight back
But I can’t forget
And I feel like I’m sick to my stomach with regret

[LINCOLN]
On a corner at 3 in the morning
When half the world is fast asleep
I’ve been biding my time
I’ve been writing a lonely song I couldn’t keep

I shut my mouth and try to hide
A burning melody inside
Walking home in the wake of the streetlights I’m a ghost

All of my feelings have to wait
All of my life a masquerade
And tonight I am lost
I am lost

Woah-Oh-Oh
Rewind Tonight
Let me get another chance to try to say things right
If I could try another track go back in time and take tonight back
But I can’t forget, and I can’t bring myself to go stumbling home just yet

[VANESSA] [LINCOLN] Look at that stupid girl in the window Look at this foolish boy in the shadows Will he miss you tonight? Woah-oh Oh what did you do tonight? -oh What did I do tonight? I’m alone tonight I ride the train to leave the pain Woah-oh-oh but all my memory’s insane rewind tonight Woah-oh-oh I lost control and someone stole a rewind tonight chance for me to bare my soul The night is over when you’re sober Woah-oh-oh and I hope that someone told her rewind tonight Woah-oh-oh I can’t forget this whole regret and I rewind tonight can’t tell him, no not yet
[VANESSA AND LINCOLN]
Woah-oh-oh rewind tonight
Woah-oh-oh rewind tonight

Lin-Manuel Miranda is an award-winning American writer, composer, playwright, and actor. He created and starred in two hit musicals, In the Heights and Hamilton (2015), an epic adaptation of Ron Chernow’s biography of the American founding father. Miranda also co-wrote the music and lyrics for Disney’s Moana (2016). The film’s main theme, “How Far I’ll Go”, was nominated for the 2017 Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Personally, Miranda has received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Hamilton), three Tony Awards (Best Original Score for both ITH and Hamilton, Best Book of a Musical for Hamilton), two Grammys (Best Musical Theatre Album ITH, Hamilton), and an Emmy (Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for “Bigger”). He was the recipient of the 2015 MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Grant”. He has a star on the Puerto Rican Walk of Fame and will receive a Hollywood star in 2018.

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