Hamilton Act 2 Lyric Starters
- “So what’d I miss?”
- “There’s a letter on my desk from the President.”
- “Don’t lecture me about the war, you didn’t fight in it.”
- “You have to find a compromise.”
- “They don’t have a plan, they just hate mine!”
- “Do you have to live an ocean away?”
- “Hey, our kid is pretty great.”
- “You and I can go when the night gets dark.”
- “It’s good to see your face.”
- “I hadn’t slept in a week.”
- “Stay?”
- “I don’t know how to say no to this.”
- “So was your whole story a setup?”
- “I don’t know about any letter!”
- “Stop crying Goddamnit, get up!”
- “Nobody needs to know.”
- “Well, hate the sin, love the sinner.”
- “No one else was in the room where it happened.”
- “I know you hate him, but let’s hear what he has to say.”
- “I wanna build something that’s gonna outlive me.”
- “I wanna be in the room where it happens.”
- “We want our leaders to save the day; but we don’t get a say in what they trade away.”
- “I swear your pride will be the death of us all.”
- “We’re too fragile to start another fight.”
- “Before he was your friend, he was mine.”
- “It must be nice to have ________ on your side.”
- “I don’t know what you heard, but whatever it is, ________ started it.”
- “Relax, have a drink with me, one last time.”
- “Why do you have to say goodbye?”
- “Jesus Christ, this will be fun!”
- “You have nothing. I don’t have to tell you anything at all.”
- “I wrote my way out of hell.”
- “I’ll write my way out…”
- “God, I hope you’re satisfied.”
- “You ever see somebody ruin their own life?”
- “I saved every letter you wrote me, from the moment I read them.”
- “I thought you were mine.”
- “Be careful with that one, love he will do what it takes to survive.”
- “You told the whole world how you brought this girl into our bed.”
- “In clearing your name, you have ruined our lives.”
- “You have married an Icarus, he has flown too close to the sun.”
- “I hope that you burn.”
- “How ‘bout when I get back, we all strip down to our socks?”
- “I didn’t say anything that wasn’t true.”
- “See you on the duelling ground. That is, unless you wanna step outside and go now.”
- “If you had only heard the shit he said about you, I doubt you would have let it slide and I was not about to.”
- “Everything is legal in New Jersey…”
- “To take someone’s life, that is something you can’t shake.”
- “_________, your mother can’t take another heartbreak.”
- “You don’t want this young man’s blood on your conscience.”
- “Save your strength and stay alive…”
- “Is he breathing? Is he going to survive this?”
- “I’m so sorry for forgetting what you taught me.”
- “There are moments that the words don’t reach.”
- “There is suffering too terrible to name.”
- “It’s quiet uptown, I never liked the quiet before.”
- “If you see him in the street, walking by himself, talking to himself, have pity.”
- “________, you would like it uptown. It’s quiet uptown.”
- “He is working through the unimaginable.”
- “If I could spare his life, if I could trade his life for mine he’d be standing here right now.”
- “We push away what we can never understand, we push away the unimaginable.”
- “_________, do you like it uptown? It’s quiet uptown.”
- “If you’ve got something to say name a time and place, face to face.”
- “I don’t wanna fight, but I won’t apologize for doing what’s right.”
- “Why do you write like you’re running out of time?”
- “I’ll be back before you know I’m gone.”
- “It’s him or me, the world will never be the same.”
- “This man will not make an orphan of my daughter.”
- “Legacy. What is a legacy? It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.”
- “You have no control:
Who lives
Who dies
Who tells your story?”