Name: My Shot || Hamilton Animatic
Uploaded: 2019-02-18T11:13:12.000Z
Duration: 5 min 38 s
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Hey yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy and hungry

I'm 'a get a scholarship to King's College

I prob'ly shouldn't brag, but dag, I amaze and astonish

The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish

I gotta holler just to be heard,
With every word, I drop knowledge!

I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal
Tryin' to reach my goal

These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder

Ev'ry burden, ev'ry disadvantage
I have learned to manage

I don't have a gun to brandish
I walk these streets famished

The plan is to fan this spark into a flame

But damn, it's getting dark, so let me spell out the name
I am the—

Meanwhile, Britain keeps shittin' on us endlessly

Then King George turns around, runs a spending spree

He ain't ever gonna set his descendants free

So there will be a revolution in this century

Don't be shocked when your hist'ry book mentions me

I will lay down my life if it sets us free

And I am not throwing away
My shot— (My shot!)

I am not throwing away
My shot— (My shot!)

I dream of life without a monarchy
The unrest in France will lead to 'onarchy?

When I fight, I make the other side panicky

Yo, I'm a tailor's apprentice
And I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parentis

I'm joining the rebellion cuz I know it's my chance

To socially advance, instead of sewin' some pants!

Until those in bondage have the same
rights as you and me

Wait till I sally in on a stallion with
the first black battalion

You keep out of trouble and you double your choices

I'm with you, but the situation is fraught

Mister Lafayette, hard rock like Lancelot

Let's hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin' the pot

What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot

Poppin' a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not

A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists?

Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is!

Sometimes I get over excited, shoot off at the mouth

I said shout it to the rooftops!
(Whooa!)

When you're living on your knees, you rise up

Tell your brother that he's gotta rise up

Tell your sister that she's gotta rise up

When are these colonies gonna rise up?
(Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!)

I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory

When's it gonna get me?
In my sleep? Seven feet ahead of me?

If I see it comin', do I run or do I let it be?

See, I never thought I'd live past twenty
Where I come from some get half as many

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My Shot || Hamilton Animatic

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