Released: September 25, 2015
Songwriter: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Producer: Bill Sherman ?uestlove Black Thought Alex Lacamoire Lin-Manuel Miranda
[HAMILTON]
In the eye of a hurricane
There is quiet
For just a moment
A yellow sky
When I was seventeen a hurricane
Destroyed my town
I didn’t drown
I couldn’t seem to die
I wrote my way out
Wrote everything down far as I could see
I wrote my way out
I looked up and the town had its eyes on me
They passed a plate around
Total strangers
Moved to kindness by my story
Raised enough for me to book passage on a
Ship that was New York bound…
I wrote my way out of hell
I wrote my way to revolution
I was louder than the crack in the bell
I wrote Eliza love letters until she fell
I wrote about The Constitution and defended it well
And in the face of ignorance and resistance
I wrote financial systems into existence
And when my prayers to God were met with indifference
I picked up a pen, I wrote my own deliverance
In the eye of a hurricane
There is quiet
For just a moment
A yellow sky
I was twelve when my mother died
She was holding me
We were sick and she was holding me
I couldn’t seem to die
[BURR]
Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it…
[HAMILTON]
I’ll write my way out…
[BURR AND ENSEMBLE]
Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it…
[HAMILTON]
Write ev’rything down, far as I can see…
[BURR AND ENSEMBLE & WASHINGTON/ELIZA/ANGELICA/MARIA]
Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait…
(History has its eyes on you)
[HAMILTON]
I’ll write my way out…
Overwhelm them with honesty
This is the eye of the hurricane, this is the only
Way I can protect my legacy…
[COMPANY (EXCEPT HAMILTON)]
Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait…
[HAMILTON]
The Reynolds Pamphlet
In the eye of a hurricane
There is quiet
For just a moment
A yellow sky
When I was seventeen a hurricane
Destroyed my town
I didn’t drown
I couldn’t seem to die
I wrote my way out
Wrote everything down far as I could see
I wrote my way out
I looked up and the town had its eyes on me
They passed a plate around
Total strangers
Moved to kindness by my story
Raised enough for me to book passage on a
Ship that was New York bound…
I wrote my way out of hell
I wrote my way to revolution
I was louder than the crack in the bell
I wrote Eliza love letters until she fell
I wrote about The Constitution and defended it well
And in the face of ignorance and resistance
I wrote financial systems into existence
And when my prayers to God were met with indifference
I picked up a pen, I wrote my own deliverance
In the eye of a hurricane
There is quiet
For just a moment
A yellow sky
I was twelve when my mother died
She was holding me
We were sick and she was holding me
I couldn’t seem to die
[BURR]
Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it…
[HAMILTON]
I’ll write my way out…
[BURR AND ENSEMBLE]
Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it…
[HAMILTON]
Write ev’rything down, far as I can see…
[BURR AND ENSEMBLE & WASHINGTON/ELIZA/ANGELICA/MARIA]
Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait…
(History has its eyes on you)
[HAMILTON]
I’ll write my way out…
Overwhelm them with honesty
This is the eye of the hurricane, this is the only
Way I can protect my legacy…
[COMPANY (EXCEPT HAMILTON)]
Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait…
[HAMILTON]
The Reynolds Pamphlet
more tracks from the album
Hamilton: An American Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
- The Story of Tonight (Reprise)
- The World Was Wide Enough
- Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story
- The Schuyler Sisters
- What’d I Miss
- Non-Stop
- Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)
- History Has Its Eyes on You
- Guns and Ships
- That Would Be Enough
- Your Obedient Servant
- It’s Quiet Uptown
- Stay Alive (Reprise)
- Take a Break
- Say No to This
- The Room Where It Happens
- Right Hand Man
- Cabinet Battle #2
- Schuyler Defeated
- The Reynolds Pamphlet
- Burn
- Blow Us All Away
- Meet Me Inside
- Ten Duel Commandments
- Alexander Hamilton
- Cabinet Battle #1
- Aaron Burr, Sir
- The Election of 1800
- You’ll Be Back
- Washington On Your Side
- Best of Wives and Best of Women
- Wait For It
- Farmer Refuted
- One Last Time
- I Know Him
- What Comes Next?
- Stay Alive
- Hurricane
- We Know
- The Adams Administration
- A Winter’s Ball
- Satisfied
- The Story of Tonight
- Dear Theodosia
- Helpless
- My Shot
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