Non-Stop - Leslie Odom Jr./Lin-Manuel Miranda/Renee Elise Goldsberry/Phillipa Soo/Christopher Jackson/Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton

Lyrics by：Lin-Manuel Miranda

Composed by：Lin-Manuel Miranda

Produced by：Ahmir Thompson/Alex Lacamoire/Bill Sherman/Lin-Manuel Miranda/Tarik Trotter

After the war I went back to New York

A-after the war I went back to New York

I finished up my studies and I practiced law

I practiced law Burr worked next door

Even though we started at the very same time

Alexander Hamilton began to climb

How to account for his rise to the top

Man the man is

Non-stop

Gentlemen of the jury I'm curious bear with me

Are you aware that we're making history

This is the first murder trial of our brand-new nation

The liberty behind

Deliberation non-stop

I intend to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt

With my assistant counsel

Co-counsel

Hamilton sit down

Our client Levi Weeks is innocent

Call your first witness

That's all you had to say

Okay

One more thing

Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room hey

Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room hey

Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room hey

Soon that attitude may be your doom aww

Why do you write like you're running out of time

Write day and night like you're running out of time

Everyday day you fight like you're running out of time

Keep on fighting

In the meantime

Non-stop

Corruption's such an old song

That we can sing along in harmony

And nowhere is it stronger than in Albany

This colony's economy's increasingly stalling and

Honestly that's why public service

Seems to be calling me

I practiced the law I practically perfected it

I've seen injustice in the world and I've corrected it

Now for a strong central democracy

If not then I'll be Socrates

Throwing verbal rocks

At these mediocrities aww

Hamilton at the Constitutional Convention

I was chosen for the Constitutional Convention

There as a New York junior delegate

Now what I'm gonna say may sound indelicate aww

Goes and proposes his own form of government what

His own plan for a new form of government what

Talks for six hours

The convention is listless

Bright young man

Yo who the eff is this

Why do you always say what you believe hey

Why do you always say what you believe hey

Every proclamation guarantees

Free ammunition for your enemies aww

Why do you write like it's going out of style

Write day and night like it's going out of style

Everyday you fight like it's going out of style

Do what you do

Alexander

Aaron Burr sir

Well it's the middle of the night

Can we confer sir

Is this a legal matter

Yes and it's important to me

What do you need

Burr you're a better lawyer than me

Okay

I know I talk too much I'm abrasive

You're incredible in court

You're succinct persuasive

My client needs a strong defense

You're the solution

Who's your client

The new US constitution

No

Hear me out

No way

A series of essays anonymously published

Defending the document to the public

No one will read it

I disagree

And if it fails

Burr that's why we need it

The constitution's a mess

So it needs amendments

It's full of contradictions

So is independence

We have to start somewhere

No

No way

You're making a mistake

Good night

Hey

What are you waiting for

What do you stall for what

We won the war

What was it all for

Do you support this constitution

Of course

Then defend it

And what if you're backing the wrong horse

Burr we studied and we fought and we killed

For the notion of a nation we now get to build

For once in your life take a stand with pride

I don't understand how you stand to the side

I'll keep all my plans

Close to my chest wait for it wait for it wait

I'll wait here and see

Which way the wind

Will blow

I'm taking my time

Watching the

Afterbirth of a nation

Watching the tension grow

I am sailing off to London

I am accompanied by someone

Who always pays

I have found a wealthy husband who will keep

Me in comfort for all my days

He is not a lot of fun but there's no one who

Can match you for turn of phrase

My Alexander

Angelica

Don't forget to write

Look at where you are

Look at where you started

The fact that you're alive is a miracle

Just stay alive that would be enough

And if your wife could share a fraction of your time

If I could grant you peace of mind

Would that be enough

Alexander joins forces with James Madison

And John Jay to write a series of essays

Defending the new united states constitution

Entitled the federalist papers

The plan was to write a total of twenty-five essays

The work divided evenly among the three men

In the end they wrote eighty-five essays

In the span of six months

John Jay got sick after writing five

James Madison wrote twenty-nine

Hamilton wrote the other fifty-one

How do you write like you're running out of time

Write day and night like you're running out of time

Everyday you fight like you're running out of time

Like you're running out of time

Are you running out of time

How do you write like tomorrow won't arrive

How do you write like you need it to survive

How do you write every second you're alive

Every second you're alive

Every second you're alive

They are asking me to lead

I am doing the best I can

To get the people that I need

I'm asking you to be my right hand man

Treasury or state

I know it's a lot to ask

Treasury or state

To leave behind the world you know

Sir do you want me to run the

Treasury or state department

Treasury

Let's go

Alexander

I have to leave

Alexander

Look around look around at how

Lucky we are to be alive right now

Helpless

They are asking me to lead

Look around isn't this enough

He will never be satisfied

What would be enough

He will never be satisfied

Satisfied

Satisfied history has its eyes

He will never be satisfied

Satisfied

Satisfied

Why do you fight like

History has its eyes on you

I am not throwin' away my

Just you wait

I am not throwin' away my

Just you wait

I am Alexander Hamilton Hamilton

Just you wait

I am not throwin' away my shot