Leslie Odom Jr. Your Obedient Servant song lyrics
Feat Lin-Manuel Miranda, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton Leslie Odom Jr. Your Obedient Servant song lyrics
BURR: How does Hamilton
an arrogant
immigrant, orphan
bastard, whoreson
somehow endorse
Thomas Jefferson, his enemy
a man he's despised since the beginning
just to keep me from winning?
I wanna be in the room where it happens —
BURR AND COMPANY: The room where it happens.
The room where it happens.
BURR: You've kept me from—
BURR AND COMPANY: The room where it happens.
BURR: For the last time.
Dear Alexander:
I am slow to anger
but I toe the line
as I reckon with the effects
of your life on mine.
I look back on where I failed
and in every place I checked
the only common thread has been your
disrespect.
Now you call me "amoral,"
a "dangerous disgrace,"
if you've got something to say
name a time and place
face to face.
I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant
A dot Burr.
HAMILTON: Mr. Vice President
I am not the reason no one trusts you.
No one knows what you believe.
I will not equivocate on my opinion
I have always worn it on my sleeve.
Even if I said what you think I said
you would need to cite a more specific
grievance.
Here's an itemized list of thirty years of
disagreements.
BURR: Sweet Jesus.
HAMILTON: Hey, I have not been shy.
I am just a guy in the public eye
Tryin' to do my best for our republic.
I don't wanna fight
But I won't apologize for doing what's right.
I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant
A dot Ham.
BURR: Careful how you proceed, good man.
Intemperate indeed, good man.
Answer for the accusations I lay at your feet or
prepare to bleed, good man.
HAMILTON: Burr, your grievance is legitimate.
I stand by what I said, every bit of it.
You stand only for yourself.
It's what you do.
I can't apologize because it's true.
BURR: Then stand, Alexander.
Weehawken. Dawn.
Guns. Drawn.
HAMILTON: You're on.
BURR AND HAMILTON: I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant
HAMILTON: A dot Ham.
BURR: A dot Burr.