Hurricane Lyrics - Lin-manuel Miranda

HAMILTON 

In the eye of a hurricane 

there is quiet 

for just a moment, 

a yellow sky. 

When I was seventeen a hurricane 

destroyed my town. 

I didn't drown. 

I couldn't seem to die. 

I wrote my way out, 

wrote everything down far as I could see. 

I wrote my way out. 

I looked up and the town had its eyes on me. 

They passed a plate around. 

Total strangers 

moved to kindness by my story. 

Raised enough for me to book passage on a 

ship that was New York bound... 

I wrote my way out of hell. 

I wrote my way to revolution. 

I was louder than the crack in the bell. 

I wrote Eliza love letters until she fell. 

I wrote about The Constitution and defended 

it well. 

And in the face of ignorance and resistance, 

I wrote financial systems into existence. 

And when my prayers to God were met with 

indifference, 

I picked up a pen, I wrote my own deliverance. 

In the eye of a hurricane 

there is quiet 

for just a moment, 

a yellow sky. 

I was twelve when my mother died. 

She was holding me. 

We were sick and she was holding me. 

I couldn't seem to die. 

BURR 

Wait for it, 

wait for it, HAMILTON 

wait for it... I'll write my 

way out... 

BURR AND 

ENSEMBLE 

Wait for it, 

wait for it, 

wait for it... 

Write 

ev'rything 

down, far as I 

can see... 

I'll write my 

way out... 

WASH/ELI/ 

ANG/MAR 

Wait for 

it, wait for 

it, wait for it, 

wait... 

Overwhelm 

them with 

honesty. 

History has its 

eyes on you. 

HAMILTON 

This is the eye of the hurricane, this is the only 

way I can protect my legacy... 

COMPANY (EXCEPT HAMILTON) 

Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait... 

HAMILTON 

The Reynolds Pamphlet. 

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