Ham: What in the hell was that? What in the hell are you doing downtown?
"Do not speak to her like that." Angelica said firmly, ignoring her sister's soft protests.
Don't you know that Burr is going to run against your father to humiliate me and try to bring us down? I will not let our family be embarrassed by this; I'll grab a pen and paper, let the whole world know.
"I believe a recurring theme here is not to let the whole world know." Peggy said nervously, bunching up her skirts with pale hands.
You swing at my family, you better not miss. You better have another punch to throw!
Eliza: You could let it go.
Eliza nodded quietly in response. Unfortunately, her husband seemed to be incapable of performing that simple, simple request.
Stay alive for me...
"It's not the easiest having your love entangled in fight after fight." Eliza added, as an afterthought.
Let it go!
Live to fight another day
People will always be critical
They'll make the personal political!
"I don't even know what counts as personal or political anymore." Alexander said, defeated, "It's like everything has been poisoned."
They'll try to knock your pedestal, your pinnacle!
Let others be cynical, let it go!
Your smiling, because you know I'm right.
Peggy suddenly snorted in quite unladylike fashion, hiding her red face in her handkerchief, staring at everyone with wide eyes.
That alone was too much for Eliza, who broke out in muffled laughter, leaning against Angelica.
Alexander smiled amongst the unexpected joy around him. Eliza laughing made her look so much lighter. Her happiness was enough.
Ham: Ha!
Eliza: And you know if the president was her he'd say the same thing!
"I only had a few songs to forget." Washington said, somewhat groaning.
Ham: No, the president's not here-
Wash: I heard about Burr!
"Oh dear Lord."
You didn't kill him, did you?
"No, not yet." Alexander said, glaring at stoic faced Burr. Perfect and closed in, once again.
Alexander appreciated the Burr who laughed and teased and grinned so wide dimples would appear so much more than the politician before him.
Ham: Were you here this whole time?
Wash: Let it go, stay alive for me!
Eliza/Wash: Let it go!
"Please listen this once." John pleaded, with an uncharacteristically quiet Hercules and Lafayette. These were his friends, his family who knew him inside and out.
And they knew this was setting up to disaster.
Eliza: Let it slide right by!
Wash: Let it slide right by!
Eliza: You don't have to bring a gun to a knife fight!
"It may be because I am a woman, but I don't understand at all why men dive headfirst into everything." Angelica said pompously, laying her hand on her hand. Immediately protests were made, and Angelica looked over at her sisters.
See what I mean?, she seemed to convey.
It's not a case of your money or your life, right?
Wash: You know you really oughta listen to your wife, right?
"I do know. I know this more than everything." Alexander said sincerely. Anything Alexander said could seem sincere if he smiled just right, but Eliza wanted to believe he was telling the truth.
Ham: I know...
Eliza: So let it go!
Burr: Talk less!
Company: Burr!
"You're not even being respectful to the fact that that is my father in laws position, Burr."
Burr: Smile more!
Company: Burr!
Burr: Don't let them know what you're against or what you're for!
Company: Burr!
Looking back and forth between the two, tension filled the room. Burr and Hamilton lost all recognition of friendship, shifting into something new entirely.
Burr: Shake hands with him!
Company: Burr!
Burr: Charm her!
Company: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Senator
Aaron Burr!
"It's politics, Alexander." Burr said quietly, trying to make sense of his own words. "It's not personal."
Eliza: Ohh!
Wash: Let everybody know, you can take a body blow, let everybody know, you can learn to let it go!
Eliza: Look around, look around, at how lucky you are to be alive right now!
"This is too much." Eliza said, rubbing her hands over her face. This was too accurate, too similar to her life. She didn't want to relive anything the past hours, but she had to sit through so much more.
Eliza couldn't handle that, she can't handle it.
Wash: Let everybody know, you can take a body blow,
Let everybody know, you can take a body blow
Let everybody know, you can take a body blow
Let everybody know, you can take a body blow!
Eliza: Look around, look around, at how lucky you are to be alive right now!
If somebody tries to lay you low,
let it go...
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