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Take a Break Lyrics
[ELIZA]
Un deux trois quatre
Cinq six sept huit neuf
Good! Un deux trois quatre
Cinq six sept huit neuf
Sept huit neufâ
Sept huit neufâ
[PHILIP]
Un deux trois quatre
Cinq six sept huit neuf
Un deux trois quatre
Cinq six sept huit neuf
Sept huit neufâ
Sept huit neufâ
[ELIZA AND PHILIP]
One two three four five six seven eight nine!
[HAMILTON]
My dearest, Angelica
âTomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to dayâ
I trust youâll understand the reference to
Another Scottish tragedy without my having to name the play
They think me Macbeth, and ambition is my folly
Iâm a polymath, a pain in the ass, a massive pain
Madison is Banquo, Jeffersonâs Macduff
And Birnam Wood is Congress on its way to Dunsinane
[HAMILTON/ANGELICA]
And there you are, an ocean away
Do you have to live an ocean away?
Thoughts of you subside
Then I get another letter
I cannot put the notion awayâŚ
[ELIZA]
Take a break
[HAMILTON]
I am on my way
[ELIZA]
Thereâs a little surprise before supper
And it cannot wait
[HAMILTON]
Iâll be there in just a minute, save my plate
[ELIZA]
Alexanderâ
[HAMILTON]
Okay, okayâ
[ELIZA]
Your son is nine years old today
Has something heâd like to say
Heâs been practicing all day
Philip, take it awayâ
[PHILIP]
Daddy, daddy, lookâ
My name is Philip
I am a poet
I wrote this poem just
To show it
And I just turned nine
You can write rhymes
But you canât write mine
I practice French
And play piano with my mother
I have a sister, but I want a little brother
My daddyâs trying to start Americaâs bank
Un deux trois quatre cinq!
[HAMILTON]
What!
Uh-huh!
Okay!
Bravo!
[ELIZA]
Take a break
[HAMILTON]
Hey, our kid is pretty great
[ELIZA]
Run away with us for the summer
Letâs go upstate
[HAMILTON]
Eliza, Iâve got so much on my plate
[ELIZA]
We can all go stay with my father
Thereâs a lake I knowâŚ
[HAMILTON]
I know
[ELIZA]
In a nearby park
[HAMILTON]
Iâd love to go
[ELIZA]
You and I can go when the night gets darkâŚ
[HAMILTON]
I will try to get away
[ANGELICA]
My dearest Alexander
You must get through to Jefferson
Sit down with him and compromise
Donât stop âtil you agree
Your favârite older sister
Angelica, reminds you
Thereâs someone in your corner all the way across the sea
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 youâve consumed my waking days
It says:
[HAMILTON/ANGELICA]
âMy dearest Angelicaâ
[ANGELICA]
With a comma after âdearest.â Youâve written
[HAMILTON AND ANGELICA]
âMy dearest, Angelica.â
[ANGELICA]
Anyway, all this to say
Iâm coming home this summer
At my sisterâs invitation
Iâll be there with your famâly
If you make your way upstate
I know youâre very busy
I know your workâs important
But Iâm crossing the ocean and I just canât wait
[HAMILTON AND ANGELICA]
You wonât be an ocean away
You will only be a moment awayâŚ
[ELIZA]
Alexander, come downstairs. Angelicaâs arriving today!
[ELIZA]
Angelica!
[ANGELICA]
Eliza!
[HAMILTON]
The Schuyler sisters!
[ANGELICA]
Alexander
[HAMILTON]
Hi
[ANGELICA]
Itâs good to see your face
[ELIZA]
Angelica, tell this man John Adams spends the summer with his family
[HAMILTON]
Angelica, tell my wife John Adams doesnât have a real job anyway
[ANGELICA]
âŚyouâre not joining us? Wait
[HAMILTON]
Iâm afraid I cannot join you upstate
[ANGELICA]
Alexander, I came all this way
[ELIZA]
She came all this wayâ
[ANGELICA]
All this wayâ
[ELIZA AND ANGELICA]
Take a break
[HAMILTON]
You know I have to get my plan through Congress
[ELIZA AND ANGELICA]
Run away with us for the summer
Letâs go upstate
[HAMILTON]
I lose my job if I donât get my plan through Congress
[ELIZA AND ANGELICA]
We can all go stay with our father
[ELIZA]
Thereâs a lake I know
In a nearby park
You and I can go
Take a break and get awayâ
Letâs go upstate
Where we can stay
Look around, look around
At how lucky we are to be alive right nowâ
We can goâ
When the night gets dark
Take a break.
[ANGELICA]
I know Iâll miss your faceâ
Screw your courage to the sticking placeâ
Elizaâs rightâ
Take a break
Run away with us for the summerâ
Letâs go upstate
We can all go stay with our father
If you take your timeâ
You will make your mark
Close your eyes and dreamâ
When the night gets dark
Take a break.
[HAMILTON]
I have to get my plan through Congress
I canât stop until I get this plan through Congress
Last Update: November, 12th 2015
Hamilton Lyrics
- Act 1
- Alexander Hamilton
- Aaron Burr
- My Shot
- The Story of Tonight
- The Schuyler Sisters
- Farmer Refuted
- You'll Be Back
- Right Hand Man
- A Winter's Ball
- Helpless
- Satisfied
- The Story of Tonight (Reprise)
- Wait For It
- Stay Alive
- Ten Duel Commandments
- Meet Me Inside
- That Would Be Enough
- Guns and Ships
- History Has Its Eye on You
- Yorktown
- What Comes Next?
- Dear Theodosia
- Non-Stop
- Act 2
- What'd I Miss
- Cabinet Battle #1
- Take a Break
- Say No to This
- The Room Where It Happens
- Schuyler Defeated
- Cabinet Battle #2
- Washington on Your Side
- One Last Time
- I Know Him
- The Adams Administration
- We Know
- Hurricane
- The Reynolds Pamphlet
- Burn
- Blow Us All Away
- Stay Alive (Reprise)
- It's Quiet Uptown
- The Election of 1800
- The Obedient Servant
- Best of Wives and Best of Women
- The World Was Wide Enough
- Finale (Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story)