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Hamming it up: Analyzing the Lyrics of "Hamilton"Main MenuWelcomeHistory Is HappeningWelcome One! Welcome All!"Alexander Hamilton"The Start"Aaron Burr, Sir"Let's meet the gang!"My Shot"Don't Throw it Away"The Story of Tonight"The Calm Before the Storm"The Schuyler Sisters"Here come the Ladies!"Farmer Refuted"Tension Builds with England"You'll Be Back"The King has Arrived"Right Hand Man"General George Washington enters"A Winter's Ball"A Night Out on the Town"Helpless"Love has Something To Do With It"Satisfied"Angelica's Mind"The Story of Tonight (reprise)"A Moment Between Friends"Wait For It"Keep Moving Forward"Stay Alive"Loved One's Prayer"Ten Duel Commandments"Gentlemen's Fight"Meet Me Inside"A Change"That Would Be Enough"Reassurance"Guns and Ships"France's Assist"History Has Its Eyes On You"A Warning To Alexander"Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)"Battle Begins and Ends"What Comes Next?"Peace Out from the King"Dear Theodosia"The New Generation"Non-Stop"And We're Back!"What'd I Miss"Welcome Jefferson"Cabinet Battle #1"Hamilton VS Jefferson: Round 1"Take a Break"A Wife's Request To Relax"Say No To This"Another Women"The Room Where It Happens"Conversation Between Delagates"Schuyler Defeated"Tides Start To Turn"Cabinet Battle #2"Hamilton VS Jefferson: Round 2"Washington On Your Side"Toe to Toe"One Last Time"Going Out With A Bang"I Know Him"A Final Message from the King"The Adams Administration"Change in Rulings"We Know"Secrets are Told"Hurricane"A Choice Is Made"The Reynolds Pamphlet"Knowledge For All"Burn"Eliza's Moment Alone"Blow Us All Away"Philip's Challenge"Stay Alive (reprise)"A Family Pulled Apart"The Election of 1800"The Government Changes"Your Obedient Servant"Alexander and Aaron Talk"Best of Wives and Best of Women"The Girls"The World Was Wide Enough"Who Shot First?"Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story"The EndWorks CitedThanks for the Help!Natalie Meyersa9d906142e0dc902d8e00a7e48ef9f0bc6c832e2
"It's Quiet Uptown"
1media/Hamilton-burr-duel.jpg2017-03-31T15:00:49-07:00Natalie Meyersa9d906142e0dc902d8e00a7e48ef9f0bc6c832e2151874Taking In The Nightplain2017-04-05T10:18:02-07:00Natalie Meyersa9d906142e0dc902d8e00a7e48ef9f0bc6c832e2Cast: Angelica Schuyler, Alexander Hamilton, Ensemble, Eliza (Schuyler) Hamilton
Lyrics with Character Names: Total Words: 439, Words Counted Once: 175 Most common Words: "Hamilton" (12 times), "Eliza" (9 times), "Unimaginable" (7 times) Lyrics without Character Names: Total Words: 393, Words Counted Once: 167 Most Common Words: "Unimaginable" (7 times), "Uptown" (7 times), "Side" (6 times)
After the death of their son Philip, Angelica narrates how the family moved "uptown" and how they try to mourn and live with the unimaginable: no longer having their son and all of the happenings with Alexander and Maria. Alexander apologizes for his actions and that he cannot handle how he did something so bad. He tells her "that would be enough" just to be by her "side" again.
When I heard this song the first time I almost cried because of how beautiful and honest this moment is. It is interesting that Eliza's phrase to Alexander ("that would be enough") is used by Alexander to Eliza this time. This song is hard to analyze because even just reading it captures that feeling of helplessness that the couple feels without their son and a family in struggles. The use of repeating the word "unimaginable" really works for this song because they are right, it is unimaginable to figure out what they are going through and the audience is left to just watch in empathy for the lovers.