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Laurens: A toast to the bride
Company: To the bride, to the bride, to the bride
Laurens: To the groom
Company: To the groom, to the groom, to the gro-o-om, to the gro-o-om
Laurens: From your best friend,
Company: John Laurens
Laurens: Who is always here for you
Company: Here for you…
Laurens: To your union...
Company: To the union, to the revolution!
Laurens: And the hope that you that you will vie…
Company: You will vie, you will vie
Laurens: To be always…
Company: Always…
Laurens: By each other’s side
Company: Rewind…
Rewind…
Rewind…
Hopeless…
Schuyler, Schuyler…
Hopeless…
And I’m drowning in your, drowning in those—
Rewind!
Laurens: I remember that day, I just might—
Company: Rewind!
Laurens: I remember that day, I just might—
Company: Rewind!
Laurens: I remember that day—
I remember that—
piano transition
Laurens: I remember that day, I just can’t forget that day despite all tries
I remember us soldier boys, baitin’ over at fate, livin’ off our highs
I remember the late afternoon rays splayed over the New York skies
But Alexander
I’ll never forget how you
Saw past my disguise…
Boy, it left me paralyzed
Whoah,
Whiplash quick wit lit
Behind eager eyes
Before I could quit, shit
I had realized
You were all that I’d
Wanted by my side,
No this can’t be right!
At Winter’s Ball
Hamilton: It strikes me; No woman’s been by your side all night.
Laurens: Alex, I don’t know what you mean, did you hit yourself?
Hamilton: Don’t kid me; there’re things you can’t deny…
Laurens: Ha! Ain’t that right?
Hamilton: Well; some things don’t satisfy
Laurens, flustered: I mean, it’s not like I don’t know this, but—
Hamilton, slurred: I’m Alex-and-can’t-get-enough!
Laurens deadpans: God, you’re really drunk.
Hamilton: Unimportant John, there’s so much that we haven’t done but, just you wait, just you wait…!
Laurens: So, so, so—So this is what if feels like to fall hard
Guard every card you got to risk’ em all in a shot, it’s
A promise of progress while countin’ to ten, it’s
Sam Adams with a gun and a pen—ya see it then?
And our discussions lasted two, maybe three hours
Nearly every word we said was true and impassioned
It’s a rash move, with a bit of a groove,
A little bit dense, a bit too good to be true,
He’s a little intense, but that don’t mean he ain’t cute~
I tried to be defensive, but how could I refute him?
Pouting all offended like I just called him stupid—
It’s pitiful, he’s drunk, yet I’m struck by Cupid
Smooth as sin, don’t he know it?
Shameless, and boy does he show it!
I wanna take him far away from this bar,
But my family, my rank, this war just make it
Hopeless
And I know, it’s just
Hopeless
And my head shouts it’s
Hopeless
And I’m forced to address
Three secrets that I never thought
I could confess
Hamilton: Hey, John, where we going?
Laurens: To dance floor, if you’ll humor me
Hamilton: Then by all means, Laurens, take the lead!
Number One
Laurens: I’m a guy in a world
In which society’s set a role to serve
As the first born son, it’s I the one
Who must be fit to rise as one!
So I’m the greatest, most obedient
And goodness knows that I can’t be cast as a deviant
So at best, we’re expedient
Ha! But that don’t mean that I want this to end…
Hamilton: We should do something fun after this *suggestive wink *
Laurens: What, and miss meeting the eldest Schuyler ogling you from over there?
Hamilton: Wait, you’re serious? Where??
Number Two
Laurens: He wants to hang with me
Cuz I can have a good time
No strings attached and I’d
Have to be naive to brush that aside
Maybe that is why
I usher him to meet a Schuyler
Now there’s a bride!
Nice going there, Laurens
You were right
No one’ll ever be by your side
Laurens: You should go
Hamilton: Nonsense John, you’ll be dancing all alone—!
Laurens: Alex, we’re soldiers, I’ve done far, far worse on my own—
Hamilton, laughing: Okay, okay, if you say so, but…*holds other’s hand tightly* we’ll have this dance be postponed
Number Three
Laurens: I would know Alex if I were deaf or blind
You will never find
Passion as persistent as his kind
If I tell him that I love him
He’d challenge logic with mind
To be mine
We’d pretend it’s fine but
We would be lying
But when I close my eyes at night
There’s nothing left to hide
Of all the things we could’ve done and overcome if I’d
But longer tried
At least he’s found himself a good wife
At least she will be there all his life
piano transition
Laurens: To the bride!
Company: To the bride, to the bride, to the bride
Laurens: To the groom!
Company: To the groom, to the groom, to the gro-o-om, to the gro-o-om
Laurens: From your best friend,
Company: John Laurens
Laurens: Who is always here for you...
Company: Here for you…
Laurens: To your union!.
Company: To the union, to the revolution!
Laurens: And the hope that you that you will vie-!
Company: You will vie, you will vie
Laurens: To be always-!
Company: Always…
Laurens: By each other’s side.
Company: Each other's side, other's side
Laurens: And I know…
Company : Each other’s side, other’s side
Laurens: He’ll be happy with his bride
Company : Each other’s side, other’s side
Laurens: And I know…
Company : Each other’s side, other’s si-i-ide…
Laurens: He will never be by my side
No one’ll ever be by my side…
FIN
Laurens: Alright, alright...