เพลง My Shot (Explicit)

My Shot (我的良机) - Leslie Odom, Jr./Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton/Lin-Manuel Miranda (林-曼努尔·米兰达)/Anthony Ramos

(《汉密尔顿》音乐剧插曲)

I am not throwing away my shot

I am not throwing away my shot

Hey yo I'm just like my country

I'm young scrappy and hungry

And I'm not throwing away my shot

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 my power of speech unimpeachable

Only nineteen but my mind is older

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

A-l-e-x-a-n-d

E-r we are meant to be

A colony that runs independently

Meanwhile Britain keeps shittin' on us endlessly

Essentially they tax us relentlessly

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

Enter me

He says in parentheses

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

I will lay down my life if it sets us free

Eventually you'll see my ascendancy

And I am not throwing away

My shot

I am not throwing away

My shot

Hey yo I'm just like my country

I'm young scrappy and hungry

And I'm not throwing away my shot

I am not throwing away my shot

I am not throwing away my shot

Hey yo I'm just like my country

I'm young scrappy and hungry

And I'm not throwing away my shot

It's time to take a shot

I dream of life without a monarchy

The unrest in France will lead to monarchy

Onarchy how you say how you say anarchy'

When I fight I make the other side panicky

With my

Shot

Yo I'm a tailor's apprentice

And I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parent-is

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

To socially advance instead of sewin' some pants

I'm gonna take a

Shot

But we'll never be truly free

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

You and I do or die wait till I sally in

On a stallion with the first black battalion

Have another

Shot

Geniuses lower your voices

You keep out of trouble and you double your choices

I'm with you but the situation is fraught

You've got to be carefully taught

If you talk you're gonna get shot

Burr check what we got

Mister Lafayette hard rock like Lancelot

I think your pants look hot

Lauren's I like you a lot

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

Oh am I talkin' too loud

Sometimes I get over excited shoot off at the mouth

I never had a group of friends before

I promise that I'll make y'all proud

Let's get this guy in front of a crowd

I am not throwing away my shot

I am not throwing away my shot

Hey yo I'm just like my country

I'm young scrappy and hungry

And I'm not throwing away my shot

I am not throwing away my shot

I am not throwing away my shot

Hey yo I'm just like my country

I'm young scrappy and hungry

And I'm not throwing away my shot

Ev'rybody sing

Whoa whoa whoa

Hey

Whoa

Wooh

Whoa

Ay let 'em hear ya

Let's go

Whoa

Wooh

I said shout it to the rooftops

Said to the rooftops

Come on

Come on let's go

Rise up

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

When are these colonies gonna rise up

When are these colonies gonna rise up

When are these colonies gonna rise up

Rise up

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

Is it like a beat without a melody

See I never thought I'd live past twenty

Where I come from some get half as many

Ask anybody why we livin' fast and we laugh reach for a flask

We have to make this moment last that's plenty

Scratch that

This is not a moment it's the movement

Where all the hungriest brothers with

Something to prove went

Foes oppose us we take an honest stand

We roll like Moses claimin' our promised land

And if we win our independence

Is that a guarantee of freedom for our descendants

Or will the blood we shed begin an endless

Cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants

I know the action in the street is excitin'

But Jesus between all the bleedin' n fightin'

I've been readin' n writin'

We need to handle our financial situation

Are we a nation of states what's the state of our nation

I'm past patiently waitin' I'm passionately

Smashin' every expectation

Every action's an act of creation

I'm laughin' in the face of casualties and sorrow

For the first time I'm thinkin' past tomorrow

And I am not throwing away my shot

I am not throwing away my shot

Hey yo I'm just like my country

I'm young scrappy and hungry

And I'm not throwing away my shot

We're gonna rise up time to take a shot

We're gonna rise up time to take a shot

We're gonna

Rise up

Rise up

Time to take a shot

Rise up

Rise up

Time to take a shot

Rise up

Time to take a shot

Rise up

Take a shot

Shot

Shot

A-yo it's

Time to take a shot

Time to take a shot

And I am

Not throwing away my

Not throwing away my shot