Leslie Odom Jr. Washington On Your Side song lyrics

It must be nice, it must be nice

To have Washington on your side

Every action has an equal opposite reaction

Thanks to Hamilton, our cabinet's fractured into factions

Try not to crack under the stress, we're breaking down like fractions

We smack each other in the press, and we don't print retractions

I get no satisfaction witnessing his fits of passion

The way he primps and preens and dresses like the pits of fashion

Our poorest citizens, our farmers, live ration to ration

As Wall Street robs ‘em blind in search of chips to cash in

This prick is asking for someone to bring him to task

Somebody give me some dirt on his vacuous mask so we can at last unmask him

I'll pull the trigger on him, someone load the gun and cock it

While we were all watching, he got Washington in his pocket

It must be nice, it must be nice

To have Washington on your side

It must be nice, it must be nice

To have Washington on your side

Look back at the Bill of Rights (which I wrote!)

The ink hasn't dried

It must be nice, it must be nice

To have Washington on your side

So he's doubled the size of the government

Wasn't the trouble with much of our previous government size

Look in his eyes, see how he lies, follow the scent of his enterprise

Centralizing national credit and making American credit competitive

If we don't stop it, we aid and abed it!

I have to resign!

Somebody has to stand up for the South!

Well, somebody has to stand up to his mouth!

If there's a fire you're trying to douse

You can't put it out from inside the house!

I'm in the cabinet, I am complicit and watching and grabbing the power and kiss it

If Washington isn't gon' listen to disciplined dissidents

This is the difference, this kid is out!

OH! This immigrant isn't somebody we chose!

OH! This immigrant's keeping us all on our toes!

OH! Let's show these Federalists what they're up against!

OH! Southern motherfucking Democratic-Republicans!

OH! Now follow the money and see where it goes!

OH! Because every second, the treasury grows!

OH! If we follow the money and see where it leads

Get in the weeds, look for the seeds of Hamilton's misdeeds!

It must be nice, it must be nice…

Follow the money and see where it goes!

It must be nice, it must be nice…

The emperor has no clothes

We won't be invisible

We won't be denied!

Still…

It must be nice, it must be nice

To have Washington on your side