Lin-Manuel Miranda

Released: June 3, 2008

Featuring: Mandy Gonzalez Christopher Jackson

Songwriter: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Producer: Joel Moss Kurt Deutsch Andres Levin Bill Sherman Alex Lacamoire Lin-Manuel Miranda

[BENNY]
When the sun goes down
You’re gonna need a flashlight
You’re gonna need a candle—

[NINA]
I think I can manage that

[BENNY]
When you leave town
I’m gonna buy you a calling card

[BENNY/NINA]
‘Cuz I’m falling hard for you

[NINA]
I go back on Labor Day

[BENNY]
And I will try to make my way

[BENNY/NINA]
Out west to California

[BENNY]
So we’ve got this summer

[NINA]
And we’ve got each other
Perhaps even longer

[BENNY]
When you’re on your own
And suddenly without me
Will you forget about me?

[NINA]
I couldn’t if I tried

[BENNY]
When I’m all alone
And I close my eyes

[BENNY/NINA]
That’s when I’ll see your face again

[BENNY]
And when you’re gone
You know that I’ll be waiting when you’re gone

[NINA]
But you’re here with me right now…

[BENNY]
We’ll be working hard, but if we should drift apart

[NINA]
Benny—

[BENNY]
Lemme take this moment just to say—

[NINA]
No, no—

[BENNY]
You are gonna change the world some day—

[NINA]
I’ll be thinking of home—

[BENNY/NINA]
And I’ll think of you every night
At the same time—

[BENNY]
When the sun goes down

[NINA]
When the sun goes down

[BENNY]
When the sun goes down

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.

Awards for musicals

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