HAMILTON/BURR/LAURENS/ALL WOMEN (EXCEPT ELIZA) Hey hey hey hey
ELIZA Ohh, I do I do I do I Dooo! Hey! Ohh, I do I do I do I Dooo! Boy you got me ALL WOMEN Hey hey hey hey Hey hey hey hey Hey hey hey hey Hey hey hey
ELIZA AND WOMEN Helpless! Look into your eyes, and the sky’s the limit I’m helpless! Down for the count, and I’m drownin’ in ‘em.
ELIZA I have never been the type to try and grab the spotlight. We were at a revel with some rebels on a hot night, laughin’ at my sister as she’s dazzling the room then you walked in and my heart went “Boom!” Tryin’ to catch your eye from the side of the ballroom, everybody’s dancin’ and the band’s top volume.
ELIZA AND WOMEN Grind to the rhythm as we wine and dine.
ELIZA Grab my sister, and whisper, “Yo, this one’s mine.”
My sister made her way across the room to you and I got nervous, thinking “What’s she gonna do?” She grabbed you by the arm, I’m thinkin’ “I’m through” Then you look back at me and suddenly I’m Helpless!
Oh, look at those eyes,
Oh! Yeah, I’m helpless, I know
I’m so into you, I am so into you.
I know I’m down for the count And I’m drownin’ in ‘em.
ALL WOMEN Oooh
Oooh
Oooh
Oooh
Helpless!
Look into your eyes, And the sky’s the limit I’m Helpless! Down for the count, And I’m drownin’ in ‘em.
I’m helpless!
Look into your eyes, And the sky’s the limit I’m helpless!
Down for the count, And I’m drownin’ in ‘em.
HAMILTON Where are you taking me?
ANGELICA I’m about to change your life.
HAMILTON Then by all means, lead the way.
ELIZA Elizabeth Schuyler. It’s a pleasure to meet you.
HAMILTON Schuyler?
ANGELICA My sister.
ELIZA Thank you for all your service.
HAMILTON If it takes fighting a war for us to meet, it will have been worth it.
ANGELICA I’ll leave you to it.
ELIZA AND WOMEN One week later
ELIZA I’m writin’ a letter nightly. Now my life gets better, every letter that you write me. Laughin’ at my sister, cuz she wants to form a harem.
ANGELICA I’m just sayin’, if you really loved me, you would share him.
ELIZA Ha! Two weeks later, In the living room stressin’ My father’s stone-faced while you’re asking for his blessin’. I’m dying inside, as you wine and dine and I’m tryin’ not to cry, ‘cause there’s nothing that your mind can’t do. My father makes his way across the room to you. I panic for a second, thinking, “we’re through” But then he shakes your hand and says, “Be true” And you turn back to me, smiling, and I’m Helpless!
Helpless! Hoo!
That boy is mine, that boy is mine!
Helpless! Helpless! Down for the count, And I’m drownin’ in em
ALL WOMEN stressin’
blessin’.
Oooh
Oooh
Oooh
Oooh
Helpless! Look into your eyes, and the sky’s the limit I’m Helpless! Down for the count, and I’m drownin’ in ‘em I’m helpless!
Look into your eyes, And the sky’s the limit I’m helpless! Down for the count, And I’m drownin’ in em HAMILTON Eliza, I don’t have a dollar to my name, an acre of land, a troop to command, a dollop of fame. All I have’s my honor, a tolerance for pain, a couple of college credits and my top-notch brain. Insane, your family brings out a different side of me, Peggy confides in me, Angelica tried to take a bite of me, no stress, my love for you is never in doubt. We’ll get a little place in Harlem and we’ll figure it out. I’ve been livin’ without a family since I was a child. My father left, my mother died, I grew up buckwild. But I’ll never forget my mother’s face, that was real, and long as I’m alive, Eliza, swear to God, you’ll never feel so…
HAMILTON Eliza…
I’ve never felt so—
My life is gon’ be fine cuz Eliza’s in it.
ELIZA I do I do I do I do!
I do I do I do I do!
Hey, yeah, yeah!
I’m down for the count, I’m—
I look into your eyes, and the sky’s the limit I’m
…drownin’ in ‘em. ALL WOMEN Helpless!
Helpless!
Helpless!
Down for the count and I’m drownin’ in ‘em
Helpless!
Helpless!
Helpless!
Down for the count, and I’m drownin’ in ‘em.
ALL WOMEN In New York, you can be a new man… in New York, you can be a new man… In New York, you can be a new man…