" Hamilton" is undeniably the biggest hit on Broadway at the moment. One could argue that the show has one of the biggest albums in the music world at the moment. Lin-Manuel Miranda is telling the story of one of America's founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton, in a fresh way -- through infectious beats and fast rhymes. Upon first hearing, it's crazy to think that a show about some old politician could ever be interesting, but the upbringing, goals, accomplishments and death of the ambitious "young, scrappy and hungry" Hamilton is one of absolute inspiration. The show about a revolution is causing a revolution of its own, and fans are going crazy. There's so much to love and learn from this American musical. I've listed some of Miranda's most genius lyrics, ranging from witty rhymes to sarcastic insults to important life lessons.
1. "You could never back down, you never learned to take your time."
2. "When America sings for you, will they know what you overcame?"
"Will they know you rewrote the game? The world will never be the same."
America has no idea what you have in store for it, Hamilton.
3. "He looked at me like I was stupid, I'm not stupid."
You could totally take on an accelerated course of study at Princeton.
4. "If you stand for nothin', Burr, what'll you fall for?"
You were clearly iffy about Burr's moral stances from the beginning.
5. "Hey yo, I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwin' away my shot!"
6. "I know the action in the street is excitin', but Jesus, between all the bleedin' 'n' fightin', I've been readin' 'n' writin'."
7. "I'm past patiently waitin'."
"I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation!"
8. "I'm a trust fund, baby, you can trust me."
Can we, Burr? Can we really trust you?
9. "You want a revolution? I want a revelation!"
10. "And when I meet Thomas Jefferson, I'm-a compel him to include women in the sequel."
WORK!
11. "History is happenin' in Manhattan and we just happen to be in the greatest city in the world."
History was happenin' in 1776 and it's happenin' again in 2016.
12. "My dog speaks more eloquently than thee."
13. "...and when push comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love."
King George III is getting all feisty on the colonies.
14. "Cause when push comes to shove, I will kill your friends and family to remind you of my love."
Okay, George. Calm down.
15. "Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder."
16. "I'll rise above my station, organize your information, 'til we rise to the occasion of our new nation."
17. "If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it."
If I was Eliza, I would've felt pretty helpless, too.
18. "I'm just sayin', if you really loved me, you would share him."
Wait. Do you like him, too, Angelica?
19. "All I have's my honor, a tolerance for pain, a couple of college credits and my top-notch brain."
20. "...and long as I'm alive, Eliza, swear to God, you'll never feel so helpless."
21. "...I'm the oldest and the wittiest and the gossip in New York City is insidious."
"Alexander is penniless. Ha! That doesn't mean I want him any less."
So you do like him, too. Awkward.
22. "I know my sister like I know my own mind."
"You will never find anyone as trusting or as kind."
23. "I am the one thing in life I can control."
24. "Life doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints, it takes and it takes and it takes and we keep livin' anyway."
"We rise and we fall and we break and we make our mistakes."
25. "Stay alive 'til this horror show is past."
"We're gonna fly a lot of flags half-mast."
26. "I'm a General. Whee!"
"Hamilton" teaching us that General Lee was kind of a joke.
27. "Can we agree that duels are dumb and immature?"
Okay...
28. "John should have shot him in the mouth."
"That would've shut him up."
29. "So long as you come home at the end of the day, that would be enough."
30. "Let me be a part of the narrative in the story they will write someday."
"Let this moment be the first chapter: where you decide to stay."
C'mon, Alexander. It's that easy.
31." Everyone give it up for America's favorite fightin' Frenchman!"
Lafayette!
32. "I go to France for more funds... I come back with more guns and ships and so the balance shifts."
33. "No one has more resilience or matches my tactical practical brilliance."
34. "Let me tell you what I wish I'd known when I was young and dreamed of glory:"
"You have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story."
Pay attention, kiddos. Washington is introducing us to a big theme of the story.
35. "Immigrants: we get the job done."
36. "We gotta go, gotta get the job done, gotta start a new nation, gotta meet my son!"
Please don't die before your son is born.
37. "Black and white soldiers wonder alike if this really means freedom."
38. "You're on your own. Awesome. Wow. Do you have a clue what happens now?"
George, you gotta calm down the sass.
39. "You will come of age with our young nation."
"We'll bleed and fight for you. We'll make it right for you."
Burr singing for his daughter? Hamilton singing for his son? Yup, here come the feels.
40. "How to account for this rise to the top? Man, the man is non-stop!"
41. "Why do you write like you're running out of time?"
Is it because you can never be satisfied...?
42. "I practiced the law, practically perfected it."
43. "For once in your life, take a stand with pride."
"I don't understand how you stand to the side."
You're just creating more beef with Burr.
44. "Hamilton wrote THE OTHER 51!"
45. "Not so fast. Someone came along to resist him."
"Pissed him off until we had a two-party system."
So the two major political parties we know now all started because Jefferson made Hamilton mad?
46. "Look, when Britain taxed our tea, we got frisky."
"Imagine what gon' happen when you try to tax our whiskey."
47. "Your debts are paid 'cause you don't pay for labor."
"We plant seeds in the South. We create." Yeah, keep ranting. We know who's really doing the planting."
A dig at slavery. Classic.
48. "Winning was easy, young man. Governing's harder."
49. "In a letter I received from you two weeks ago, I noticed a comma in the middle of a phrase."
"It changed the meaning. Did you intend this? One stroke and you've consumed my waking days. It says: "My dearest Angelica" with a comma after "dearest." You've written: "My dearest, Angelica."
Grammar is so important, people.
50. "I hadn't slept in a week."
"I was weak. I was awake. You never seen a bastard orphan more in need of a break."
51. "I wish I could say that was the last time."
"I said that last time. It becomes a pastime."
C'mon, Hamilton...
52. "No one really knows how the parties get to yes, the pieces that are sacrificed in every game of chess."
"We just assume that it happens. But no one else was in the room where it happens."
53. "God help and forgive me, I wanna build something that's gonna outlive me."
54. "They don't need to know me. They don't like you."
Still got no morals, Burr?
55. "He knows nothing of loyalty, smells like new money, dresses like fake royalty, desperate to rise above his station, everything he does betrays the ideals of our nation."
Is your only tactic personally insulting Hamilton, Jefferson?
56." We signed a treaty with a King whose head is now in a basket."
"Would you like to take it out and ask it?"
57. "You accumulate debt, you accumulate power, yet in their hour of need, you forget."
58. "You're nothing without Washington behind you."
59. "This immigrant isn't somebody we chose..."
"This immigrant's keeping us all on our toes... Let's show these Federalists who they're up against... SOUTHERN MOTHERF**KIN' DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICANS!"
Ah, the beginning of the Jefferson/Madison/Burr against Hamilton feud.
60. "Next to Washington, they all look small."
61. "As long as he can hold a pen, he's a threat."
Hamilton, by attacking new president John Adams, you're turning your greatest strength into your greatest weakness... You're better than this.
62. "Ya best g'wan run back where ya came from."
Jefferson/Madison/Burr are about to school Hamilton.
63. "She courted me, escorted me to bed, and when she had me in a corner, that's when Reynolds extorted me for a sordid fee."
"I paid him quarterly. I may have mortally wounded my prospects, but my papers are orderly!"
But Hamilton schooled them right back.
64. "I wrote my way out of hell."
"I wrote my way to revolution."
65. "I'll write my way out."
"Overwhelm them with honesty."
*deep voice* The Reynolds Pamphlet.
66. "Highlights!"
67. "Well, he's never gon' be president now."
68. "I'm not here for you."
Oooooh!
69. "You could never be satisfied."
"God, I hope you're satisfied."
70. "You and your words, obsessed with your legacy..."
You knew this guy's Hamartia from the very beginning, didn't you, Eliza?
71. "I'm erasing myself from the narrative."
72. "You forfeit all rights to my heart."
"You forfeit the place in our bed. You sleep in your office instead with only the memories of when you were mine. I hope that you burn."
73. "The scholars say I got the same virtuosity and brains as my pops! The ladies say my brain's not where the resemblance stops!"
Oh, yeah. Your son is still in this narrative, Hamilton.
74. "How 'bout when I get back, we all strip down to our socks?"
"Lemme go duel this guy who slammed my dad, then we can all have a little fun."
75. "When the time comes, fire your weapon in the air."
"This will put an end to the whole affair."
Sounds fake, but okay.
76. "I'm sorry, I'm a Hamilton with pride."
"You talk about my father, I cannot let it slide."
77. "If you see him in the street, walking by himself, talking to himself, have pity."
78. "Just let me stay here by your side."
"That would be enough."
Now you understand how much you need your wife?
79. "It might be nice to get Hamilton on your side."
Oh, how the tables have turned.
80. "I have never agreed with Jefferson once."
"We have fought on like 75 different fronts. But when all is said and done, Jefferson has beliefs. Burr has none."
Well, I'll be damned. Well, I'll be damned.
81. "Now you call me "amoral," a "dangerous disgrace," if you've got something to say, name a time and place, face to face."
Wait wait wait, I thought you said duels were dumb?
82. "Even if I said what you think I said, you would need to cite a more specific grievance."
"Here's an itemized list of 30 years disagreements."
Did you expect anything less from the man who writes like tomorrow won't arrive?
83. "Hey. Best of wives and best of women."
84. "Now I didn't know this at the time, but we were near the same spot your son died."
"Is that why he examined his gun with such rigor?"
85. "I had only one thought before the slaughter:"
"This man will not make an orphan of my daughter."
But you're both orphans, Burr... And he has a son.
86. *when Hamilton has his dramatic internal monolog and reprises a bunch of the show's songs*
87. "I survived, but I paid for it."
Yes, you did, Burr.
88. "Every other founding father's story gets told."
Every other founding father gets to grow old.
89. "I put myself back in the narrative."
90. "Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?"
There's a lot to take from the hottest musical on Broadway right now. From a two-and-a-half hour show mostly set to music and lyrics, these are only a few of the genius words Miranda has so graciously shared with the world. So... Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?



































