Burn from Hamilton (by Lin-Manuel Miranda)


[Intro]

            
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[Verse]

(ELIZA)

            
I saved every 

            
letter you wro

te me
             
  From the mom

      
ent I read the

m
            
I knew you wer

  
e mine
              
You said you w

     
ere mine
              
I thought you 

            
were mine

            
   Do you know

        
 what Angelica

 said
             
When we saw yo

              
ur first lette

          
r arrive?

She said

            
“Be careful wi

    
th that one, l

ove
             
He will do wha

              
t it takes to 

           
survive.”


[Pre-Chorus]

        
You and your w

             
ords flooded m

            
y senses
             
Your sentences

             
 left me defen

seless
            
You built me p

            
alaces out of 

  
paragraphs
             
You built cath

            
edrals
            
I’m re-reading

              
 the letters y

    
ou wrote me
             
I’m searching 

              
and scanning f

     
or answers
        
In every line
              
For some kind 

    
of sign
              
And when you w

     
ere mine

The world seemed to


[Chorus]

        
Burn

    


        
Burn

    




[Verse]

            
You published 

              
the letters sh

   
e wrote you
             
You told the w

              
hole world how

      
 you brought
            
This girl into

     
 our bed
              
In clearing yo

            
ur name, you h

              
ave ruined our

          
 lives

            
Do you know wh

            
at Angelica sa

    
id
              
When she read 

             
what you’d don

    
e?
         
She said
              
“You have marr

         
ied an Icarus
             
He has flown t

              
oo close to th

    
e sun.”


[Pre-Chorus]

        
You and your w

             
ords, obsessed

           
 with your leg

acy...
             
Your sentences

              
 border on sen


seless
           
And you are pa

             
ranoid in ever

   
y paragraph
            
How they perce

ive you

You, you, you…


            
I’m erasing my

              
self from the 

 
narrative
             
Let future his

             
torians wonder

      
 how Eliza
            
Reacted when y

            
ou broke her h

eart

You have torn 

it all apart

I am watching it


[Chorus]

      
Burn

    


            
Watching it bu

          
rn


[Bridge]

              
The world has 

             
no right to my

   
 heart
              
The world has 

    
no place in ou

r bed
            
They don’t get

              
 to know what 

  
I said
             
I’m burning th

     
e memories
             
Burning the le

#            
tters that mig

        
ht have redeem

ed you
             
You forfeit al

           
l rights to my

 heart
              
You forfeit th

   
e place in our

 bed
            
You'll sleep i

              
n your office 

 
instead
             
With only the 

  
memories
             
Of when you we

#           
re mine


[Outro]

              
I hope that yo

            
u   burn