#38 Hamilton - Burn [[VIDEO LYRICS]]
[00:00.00] BURN
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[00:13.00] [ELIZA – 7]
[00:14.27] I saved every letter you wrote me
[00:18.49] From the moment I read them
[00:20.78] I knew you were mine
[00:22.65] You said you were mine
[00:24.61] I thought you were mine
[00:27.64] ♪
[00:29.71] Do you know what Angelica said
[00:32.41] When we saw your first letter arrive?
[00:35.65] She said
[00:36.59] “Be careful with that one, love
[00:39.82] He will do what it takes to survive.”
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[00:43.05] You and your words flooded my senses
[00:47.33] Your sentences left me defenseless
[00:50.25] You built me palaces out of paragraphs
[00:53.99] You built cathedrals
[00:58.36] I’m re-reading the letters you wrote me
[01:02.00] I’m searching and scanning for answers
[01:04.81] In every line
[01:06.69] For some kind of sign
[01:08.67] And when you were mine
[01:12.31] The world seemed to
[01:13.56] ♪
[01:14.07] Burn
[01:20.83] Burn
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[01:27.26] You published the letters she wrote you
[01:31.61] You told the whole world how you brought
[01:34.00] This girl into our bed
[01:36.09] In clearing your name, you have ruined our lives
[01:41.92] ♪
[01:43.48] Do you know what Angelica said
[01:46.60] When she read what you’d done?
[01:49.75] She said
[01:50.89] “You’ve married an Icarus
[01:53.81] He has flown too close to the sun.”
[01:56.36] ♪
[01:56.88] You and your words, obsessed with your legacy…
[02:01.05] Your sentences border on senseless
[02:04.08] And you are paranoid in every paragraph
[02:07.70] How they perceive you
[02:11.87] You, you, you…
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[02:19.00] I’m erasing myself from the narrative
[02:23.60] Let future historians wonder how Eliza
[02:27.55] Reacted when you broke her heart
[02:32.13] You have torn it all apart
[02:34.33] I am watching it
[02:36.00] Burn…
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[02:41.41] Watching it burn…
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[02:47.56] The world has no right to my heart
[02:50.27] The world has no place in our bed
[02:52.87] They don’t get to know what I said
[02:55.58] I’m burning the memories
[02:57.57] Burning the letters that might have redeemed you
[03:01.95] You forfeit all rights to my heart
[03:04.65] You forfeit the place in our bed
[03:07.36] You sleep in your office instead
[03:10.16] With only the memories
[03:12.13] Of when you were mine…
[03:21.38] ♪
[03:24.82] I hope that you burn…
