Phillipa Soo

Released: September 25, 2015

Songwriter: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Producer: Bill Sherman Black Thought Lin-Manuel Miranda Alex Lacamoire ?uestlove

[ELIZA]
I saved every letter you wrote me
From the moment I read them
I knew you were mine
You said you were mine
I thought you were mine

Do you know what Angelica said
When we saw your first letter arrive?
She said

“Be careful with that one, love
He will do what it takes to survive.”

You and your words flooded my senses
Your sentences left me defenseless
You built me palaces out of paragraphs
You built cathedrals
I’m re-reading the letters you wrote me
I’m searching and scanning for answers
In every line
For some kind of sign
And when you were mine
The world seemed to

Burn
Burn

You published the letters she wrote you
You told the whole world how you brought
This girl into our bed
In clearing your name, you have ruined our lives
Do you know what Angelica said
When she read what you’d done?
She said
“You have married an Icarus
He has flown too close to the sun.”

You and your words, obsessed with your legacy...
Your sentences border on senseless
And you are paranoid in every paragraph
How they perceive you

You, you, you…

I’m erasing myself from the narrative
Let future historians wonder how Eliza
Reacted when you broke her heart
You have torn it all apart
I am watching it
Burn
Watching it burn
The world has no right to my heart
The world has no place in our bed
They don’t get to know what I said
I’m burning the memories
Burning the letters that might have redeemed you
You forfeit all rights to my heart
You forfeit the place in our bed
You sleep in your office instead
With only the memories
Of when you were mine
I hope that you burn

Phillipa Soo is an actress and singer based in the United States. She is most famous for originating the role of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton in the Broadway musical, Hamilton. Soo was nominated for the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for this role.

After leaving Hamilton in July 2016, Soo went on to play the title role in the upcoming Broadway show Amélie, opening on Broadway in April 2017.

Soo graduated from Julliard’s acting program in 2012 and in the same year, was cast in her first theater role as Natasha Rostova in Off-Broadway production of Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. Soo left the cast before the show transitioned to Broadway, to join Hamilton.

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