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Alexander Hamilton

Christopher Jackson

Hamilton: An American Musical [Original Broadway Cast Recording]

2015

pride, something new inside 
A voice saying, "Alex, you gotta fend for yourself"

He started retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf

There

where she'd go 

She read Kant, Rousseau, and Hume
From the comfort of her room
The catagorical imperative
She learned that out of school
The young

treatises on abstract questions
Or deliver moralizing little sermons
Or compose imaginary descriptions
Of ‘The Simple Life’ or ‘The Man
Who Lives Only for

Some nights I was sleepless
Controlled by my weakness
Some told me I'm genius
I hold on to decent
As part of my treatment I learned to be speechless