In the end, they wrote eighty-five essays, in the span of six months. The plan was to write a total of twenty-five essays, the work divided evenly among the three men. He is not a lot of fun, but there's no one whoĪnd if your wife could share a fraction of your timeĪlexander joins forces with James Madison and John Jay to write a series of essays defending the new United States Constitution, entitled The Federalist Papers. I have found a wealthy husband who will keep I don't understand how you stand to the side You're the solutionĪ series of essays, anonymously publishedĪnd what if you're backing the wrong horse?īurr, we studied and we fought and we killedįor the notion of a nation we now get to buildįor once in your life, take a stand with pride Talks for six hours! The convention is listless!Įv'ry proclamation guarantees free ammunition for your enemies! Burn Lyrics Intro (If young Metro don't trust you trust you) Verse 1 I can't take one Percocet, start tonight off, I just took a 60 Burberry on me, shoot you in your back, you just got. His own plan for a new form of government! Goes and proposes his own form of government! Now what I'm going to say may sound indelicate. I was chosen for the Constitutional Convention Hamilton, at the Constitutional Convention: I've seen injustice in the world and I've corrected it I practiced the law, I practic'ly perfected it This colony's economy's increasingly stalling and In the meantime- Ĭorruption's such an old song that we can sing along in harmonyĪnd nowhere is it stronger than in Albany Write day and night like you're running out of time?Įv'ry day you fight, like you're running out of time While Regina George and The Plastics had a burn. Why do you write like you're running out of time? We’re going to shine at the top, we belong at the top and give people great messages The only thing IVE aren’t, though, are mean girls per se. Why do you assume you're the smartest in the room? I intend to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt This is the first murder trial of our brand-new nation Gentlemen of the jury, I'm curious, bear with me -Eliza builds her own character by showing her feelings and emotions. "But in embracing the enigma the song points to the larger problem of women's history: the public records are thinner, the milieu is mostly domestic, and there's more need for speculation.I finished up my studies and I practiced lawĮven though we started at the very same time "Surely Miranda is poking fun at his own lack of primary sources when it came to dramatizing this moment in the Hamiltons' marriage," wrote Michael Schulman, describing the song in the New Yorkerback in August. Eliza Hamilton was a modest, self-effacing woman who apparently destroyed her own letters and tried to expunge her presence from the history books." As Chernow describes in Alexander Hamilton, ". These lines are apparently the show's creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda's interpretation of Chernow's assumption that Eliza destroyed some of her correspondence with her husband. But "Burn" is much more than a song about a devastated wife, it also references the layers of intertextuality at play in the show, which is based on a biography about Hamilton by Ron Chernow, which, in turn, draws upon primary sources like letters written by the actual historical figures.Īs Eliza laments her husband's transgressions and subsequent choice to share them with world, she sings about burning her letters to Alexander, "I'm erasing myself from the narrative /Let future historians wonder /How Eliza reacted when you broke her heart."
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