“It’s Quiet Uptown“ from the musical HAMILTON
Performed by Alex Lacamoire, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton, Phillipa Soo, Renée Elise Goldsberry
Written by Lin-Manuel Miranda
[ANGELICA]
There are moments that the words don’t reach
There is suffering too terrible to name
You hold your child as tight as you can
And push away the unimaginable
The moments when you’re in so deep
It feels easier to just swim down
[ANGELICA/ENSEMBLE]
The Hamiltons move uptown
And learn to live with the unimaginable
[HAMILTON]
I spend hours in the garden
I walk alone to the store
And it’s quiet uptown
I never liked the quiet before
I take the children to church on Sunday
A sign of the cross at the door
And I pray
That never used to happen before
[ANGELICA AND WOMEN]
If you see him in the street, walking by
Himself, talking to himself, have pity
[HAMILTON]
Philip, you wo