Hamilton Take A Break
[00:00.00] TAKE A BREAK
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[00:00.00] [ELIZA – 7]
[00:00.00] Un deux trois quatre [PHILIP – 5]
[00:01.52] Cinq six sept huit neuf Un deux trois quatre
[00:03.28] Cinq six sept huit neuf
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[00:05.36] Good! Un deux trois quatre
[00:07.44] Cinq six sept huit neuf Un deux trois quatre
[00:09.00] Cinq six sept huit neuf
[00:11.30] Sept huit neuf—
[00:12.35] Sept huit neuf—
[00:13.69] Sept huit neuf—
[00:14.43] Sept huit neuf—
[00:15.47] One two three four One two three four
[00:16.82] five six seven eight nine! five six seven eight nine!
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[00:20.89] [HAMILTON – 1]
[00:21.41] My dearest, Angelica
[00:22.35] “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
[00:24.50] Creeps in this petty pace from day to day”
[00:27.51] I trust you’ll understand the reference to
[00:29.28] Another Scottish tragedy without my having to name the play
[00:33.44] They think me Macbeth, and ambition is my folly
[00:35.93] I’m a polymath, a pain in the ass, a massive pain
[00:39.24] Madison is Banquo, Jefferson’s Macduff
[00:42.04] And Birnam Wood is Congress on its way to Dunsinane
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[00:45.45] [HAMILTON/ANGELICA – 1/8]
[00:45.97] And there you are, an ocean away
[00:48.47] Do you have to live an ocean away?
[00:51.38] Thoughts of you subside
[00:52.82] Then I get another letter
[00:54.48] I cannot put the notion away…
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[00:57.40] [ELIZA – 7]
[00:57.71] Take a break [HAMILTON – 1]
[00:58.44] I am on my way
[01:00.20] There’s a little surprise before supper
[01:02.28] And it cannot wait
[01:04.15] I’ll be there in just a minute,
[01:04.98] save my plate
[01:05.91] Alexander—
[01:06.95] Okay, okay—
[01:07.68] Your son is nine years old today
[01:10.79] And he has something that he’d like to say
[01:13.50] He’s been practicing all day
[01:16.20] Philip, take it away—
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[01:18.70] [PHILIP – 5]
[01:19.43] Daddy, daddy, look—
[01:20.48] My name is Philip
[01:21.84] I am a poet
[01:23.40] I wrote this poem just
[01:25.47] To show it
[01:26.51] And I just turned nine
[01:29.44] You can write rhymes
[01:30.17] But you can’t write mine [HAMILTON – 1]
[01:31.62] What!
[01:32.04] I practice French
[01:33.08] And play piano with my mother
[01:34.33] Uh-huh!
[01:34.95] I have a sister,
[01:35.88] but I want a little brother
[01:37.23] Okay!
[01:37.75] My daddy’s trying to start America’s bank
[01:40.27] Un deux trois quatre cinq!
[01:42.55] Bravo!
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[01:43.39] [ELIZA – 7]
[01:43.59] Take a break [HAMILTON – 1]
[01:44.74] Hey, our kid is pretty great
[01:45.77] Run away with us for the summer
[01:48.06] Let’s go upstate
[01:50.04] Eliza, I’ve got so much on my plate
[01:51.60] We can all go stay with my father
[01:53.99] There’s a lake I know…
[01:56.18] I know
[01:57.02] In a nearby park
[01:59.00] I’d love to go
[02:00.05] You and I can go when the night gets dark…
[02:04.75] I will try to get away
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[02:06.83] [ANGELICA – 8]
[02:07.14] My dearest Alexander
[02:08.19] You must get through to Jefferson
[02:09.75] Sit down with him and compromise
[02:11.43] Don’t stop ‘til you agree
[02:12.98] Your favorite older sister
[02:14.22] Angelica, reminds you
[02:15.89] There’s someone in your corner all the way across the sea
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[02:19.10] In a letter I received from you two weeks ago
[02:21.17] I noticed a comma in the middle of a phrase
[02:24.41] It changed the meaning. Did you intend this?
[02:27.53] One stroke and you’ve consumed my waking days
[02:30.23] It says: [HAMILTON – 1]
[02:30.76] “My dearest Angelica” “My dearest Angelica”
[02:33.88] With a comma after “dearest.” You’ve written
[02:37.09] “My dearest, Angelica.” “My dearest, Angelica”
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[02:42.46] Anyway, all this to say
[02:44.02] I’m coming home this summer
[02:45.16] At my sister’s invitation
[02:46.83] I’ll be there with your fam’ly
[02:48.19] If you make your way upstate
[02:49.74] I know you’re very busy
[02:51.30] I know your work’s important
[02:52.84] But I’m crossing the ocean and I just can’t wait
[02:56.06] You won’t be an ocean away You won’t be an ocean away
[02:58.14] You will only be a moment away… You will only be a moment away…
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[03:01.06] [ELIZA – 7]
[03:01.69] Alexander, come downstairs. Angelica’s arriving today!
[03:09.61] Angelica!
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[03:11.07] [ANGELICA – 8]
[03:11.59] Eliza!
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[03:12.64] [HAMILTON – 1]
[03:14.25] The Schuyler sisters!
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[03:16.74] [ANGELICA – 8]
[03:17.37] Alexander
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[03:18.62] [HAMILTON – 1]
[03:19.24] Hi
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[03:20.59] [ANGELICA – 8]
[03:20.71] It’s good to see your face
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[03:22.47] [ELIZA – 7]
[03:22.88] Angelica, tell this man John Adams spends the summer with his family
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[03:28.49] [HAMILTON – 1]
[03:28.70] Angelica, tell my wife John Adams doesn’t have a real job anyway
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[03:34.42] [ANGELICA – 8]
[03:34.67] …you’re not joining us? Wait
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[03:37.47] [HAMILTON – 1]
[03:37.58] I’m afraid I cannot join you upstate
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[03:39.96] [ANGELICA – 8]
[03:40.27] Alexander, I came all this way
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[03:42.56] [ELIZA – 7]
[03:42.77] She came all this way—
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[03:43.71] [ANGELICA – 8]
[03:44.03] All this way—
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[03:44.95] [ELIZA/ANGELICA – 7/8]
[03:45.06] Take a break [HAMILTON – 1]
[03:46.41] You know I have to get my plan through Congress
[03:47.96] Run away with us
[03:49.21] for the summer
[03:50.04] Let’s go upstate
[03:51.38] I lose my job if we don’t get this plan through Congress
[03:53.56] We can all go stay
[03:54.50] with our father
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[03:55.86] [ELIZA – 7]
[03:55.96] There’s a lake I know [ANGELICA – 8]
[03:58.03] I know I’ll miss your face—
[03:59.07] In a nearby park
[04:00.73] Screw your courage to the sticking place-
[04:02.07] You and I can go
[04:03.53] Eliza’s right-
[04:04.56] Take a break Take a break
[04:05.61] And get away—
[04:07.38] Run away with us for the summer-
[04:09.67] Let’s go upstate Let’s go upstate
[04:11.40] Where we can stay…
[04:13.59] We can all go stay with our father
[04:15.77] If you take your time-
[04:17.23] Look around, look around
[04:19.30] At how lucky we are You will make your mark
[04:20.85] to be alive right now—
[04:22.00] We can go— Close your eyes and dream—
[04:23.77] When the night gets dark When the night gets dark
[04:26.78] Take a break. Take a break.
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[04:28.85] [HAMILTON – 1]
[04:29.06] I have to get my plan through Congress
[04:30.91] I can’t stop until I get this plan through Congress
