In The Heights Lyrics

Song	In The Heights
Artist	Lin-Manuel Miranda
Album	In the Heights (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
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[00:08.48]	Lights up on Washington Heights, up at the break of day
[00:11.57]	I wake up and I got this little punk I gotta chase away
[00:14.45]	Pop the grate at the crack of dawn, sing
[00:17.24]	While I wipe down the awning
[00:19.21]	Hey y’all, good morning
[00:20.78]	Ice cold piragua! Parcha. China. Cherry. Strawberry.
[00:25.78]	And just for today, I got mamey!
[00:27.90]	Oye, piragüero, como estas?
[00:29.56]	Como siempre, Señor Usnavi.
[00:31.70]	I am Usnavi and you prob’ly never heard my name
[00:35.60]	Reports of my fame are greatly exaggerated
[00:37.73]	Exacerbated by the fact that my syntax
[00:40.23]	Is highly complicated 'cuz I emigrated
[00:42.58]	From the single greatest little place in the Caribbean:
[00:45.18]	Dominican Republic!
[00:46.70]	I love it!
[00:47.46]	Jesus, I’m jealous of it
[00:48.78]	And beyond that
[00:49.42]	Ever since my folks passed on
[00:51.49]	I haven’t gone back
[00:52.86]	Goddamn, I gotta get on that...
[00:55.90]	Fo! The milk has gone bad, hold up just a second
[00:58.92]	Why is everything in this fridge warm and tepid?
[01:02.10]	I better step it up and fight the heat
[01:03.96]	'Cuz I’m not makin' any profit if the coffee isn’t light and sweet!
[01:08.40]	Ooo-oo!
[01:08.96]	Abuela, my fridge broke. I got café but no "con leche."
[01:11.32]	Try my mother’s old recipe: one can of condensed milk.
[01:15.32]	Nice.
[01:15.92]	Ay! Paciencia y fe…
[01:19.53]	That was Abuela, she’s not really my “abuela,”
[01:22.50]	But she practically raised me, this corner is her escuela
[01:25.19]	Now, you’re prob’ly thinkin:
[01:26.59]	"I’m up shit’s creek!
[01:27.88]	I've never been north of Ninety-Sixth Street!”
[01:30.30]	Well, you must take the A Train
[01:33.82]	Even farther than Harlem to northern Manhattan and maintain
[01:36.71]	Get off at 181st, and take the escalator
[01:39.83]	I hope you’re writing this down, I’m gonna test ya later
[01:42.69]	I’m getting tested; times are tough on this bodega
[01:45.28]	Two months ago somebody bought Ortega’s
[01:47.70]	Our neighbors started packin’ up and pickin’ up
[01:49.79]	And ever since the rents went up
[01:51.14]	It’s gotten mad expensive
[01:52.51]	But we live with just enough
[01:53.98]	In the heights
[01:54.77]	I flip the lights and start my day
[01:59.30]	There are fights
[02:00.44]	And endless debts
[02:01.64]	And bills to pay
[02:05.29]	In the Heights
[02:06.27]	I can’t survive without café
[02:08.97]	I serve café
[02:10.96]	'Cuz tonight seems like a million years away!
[02:16.28]	En Washington-
[02:17.44]	Next up to bat, the Rosarios
[02:19.39]	They run the cab company,
[02:20.90]	They struggle in the barrio
[02:22.41]	See, their daughter Nina’s off at college, tuition is mad steep
[02:25.79]	So they can’t sleep
[02:26.80]	Everything they get is mad cheap!
[02:28.81]	Good morning, Usnavi!
[02:31.48]	Pan caliente, café con leche!
[02:34.74]	Put twenty dollars on today’s lottery
[02:37.31]	One ticket, that’s it!
[02:38.72]	Hey! A man’s gotta dream...
[02:40.38]	Don’t mind him, he’s all excited
[02:43.19]	‘Cuz Nina flew in at 3 A.M. last night!
[02:45.99]	Don’t look at me, this one’s been cooking all week!
[02:48.81]	Usnavi, come over for dinner
[02:51.57]	There’s plenty to eat!
[02:52.68]	So then Yesenia walks in the room-
[02:55.11]	Aha…
[02:56.10]	She smells sex and cheap perfume!
[02:58.10]	Uh oh…
[02:58.80]	It smells like one of those trees
[03:00.36]	That you hang from the rear view!
[03:02.30]	Ah, no!
[03:03.62]	It’s true! She screams, “Who’s in there with you, Julio?”
[03:07.10]	Grabs a bat and kicks in the door
[03:09.96]	He’s in bed with José from the liquor store!
[03:13.15]	No me diga!
[03:15.61]	Daniela and Carla, from the salon.
[03:17.40]	Thanks, Usnavi!
[03:18.82]	Sonny, you’re late.
[03:21.19]	Chillax, you know you love me.
[03:24.98]	Me and my cousin runnin’ just another dime-a-dozen
[03:28.12]	Mom-and-pop stop-and-shop
[03:29.58]	And, oh my god, it’s gotten
[03:30.81]	Too darn hot, like my man Cole Porter said
[03:33.87]	People come through for a few cold waters and
[03:36.47]	A lottery ticket, just a part of the routine
[03:39.39]	Everybody’s got a job, everybody’s got a dream
[03:42.61]	They gossip, as I sip my coffee and smirk
[03:44.83]	The first stop as people hop to work
[03:47.44]	Bust it- I’m like:
[03:48.76]	"One dollar, two dollars, one fifty, one sixty-nine.
[03:51.28]	I got it. You want a box of condoms? What kind?
[03:53.98]	That’s two quarters.
[03:54.69]	Two quarter waters. The New York Times.
[03:56.59]	You need a bag for that? The tax is added.?"
[03:58.57]	Once you get some practice at it
[03:59.99]	You do rapid mathematics automatically
[04:01.48]	Sellin’ maxipads, fuzzy dice for taxicabs and practically
[04:05.46]	Everybody’s stressed, yes!
[04:06.88]	But they press through the mess,
[04:08.92]	Bounce checks and wonder what’s next
[04:11.15]	In the heights
[04:11.95]	I buy my coffee and I go
[04:14.63]	I buy my coffee and-
[04:16.68]	Set my sights
[04:17.50]	On only what I need to know
[04:20.60]	What I need to know
[04:22.16]	In the heights
[04:23.18]	Money is tight
[04:24.49]	But even so
[04:25.53]	Even so
[04:27.83]	When the lights go down I blast my radio!
[04:32.85]	You ain’t got no skills!
[04:34.79]	Benny!
[04:35.69]	Yo, lemme get a-
[04:36.41]	Milky Way
[04:37.39]	Yeah, lemme also get a-
[04:39.48]	Daily News-
[04:40.28]	And a-
[04:40.79]	Post-
[04:41.26]	And most important, my-
[04:42.52]	Boss’ second coffee, one cream-
[04:44.23]	Five sugars
[04:45.90]	I’m the number one earner-
[04:46.38]	What?!
[04:46.96]	The fastest learner-
[04:47.77]	What?!
[04:48.27]	My boss can’t keep me on the damn back burner!
[04:50.58]	Yes, he can
[04:51.39]	I’m makin’ moves, I’m makin’ deals, but guess what?
[04:53.94]	What?
[04:55.00]	You still ain’t got no skills!
[04:57.14]	Hardee-har
[04:57.96]	Yo, Vanessa show up yet?
[04:58.95]	Shut up!
[04:59.82]	Hey little homie, don’t get so upset
[05:01.78]	Man...
[05:02.47]	Tell Vanessa how you feel, buy the girl a meal
[05:05.38]	On the real, or you ain’t got no skills
[05:07.96]	Nooo!
[05:09.41]	No no nooo!
[05:12.30]	No no nooo, no-no-no!
[05:14.20]	Nooo, no-no-no!
[05:15.36]	No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no, no-no-no-no-no!
[05:18.14]	Mr. Johnson, I got the security deposit
[05:20.74]	It’s locked in a box in the bottom of my closet
[05:23.41]	It’s not reflected in my bank statement
[05:25.83]	But I’ve been savin’ to make a down payment and pay rent
[05:28.93]	No, no, I won’t let you down-
[05:31.28]	Yo, here’s your chance; ask her out right now!
[05:34.30]	I’ll see you later, we can look at that lease!
[05:36.71]	Do somethin’, make your move, don’t freeze!
[05:39.39]	Hey!
[05:39.85]	You owe me a bottle of cold champagne!
[05:43.90]	Are you moving?
[05:45.20]	Just a little credit check and I’m on that downtown train!
[05:49.22]	Well, your coffee’s on the house
[05:50.68]	Okay!
[05:51.98]	Usnavi, ask her out
[05:53.47]	No way!
[05:54.78]	I’ll see you later, so…
[05:58.70]	Oooh... Smooth operator, aw, damn, there she goes!
[06:00.73]	Yo, bro, take five, take a walk outside!
[06:03.49]	You look exhausted, lost, don’t let life slide!
[06:05.98]	The whole hood is struggling, times are tight
[06:08.72]	And you’re stuck to this corner like a streetlight!
[06:14.57]	Yeah, I’m a streetlight, chokin' on the heat
[06:17.31]	The world spins around while I’m frozen to my seat
[06:20.12]	The people that I know all keep on rollin' down the street
[06:22.95]	But every day is different so I’m switchin’ up the beat
[06:25.76]	'Cuz my parents came with nothing, they got a little more
[06:28.63]	And sure, we’re poor, but yo, at least we got the store
[06:31.39]	And it’s all about the legacy they left with me, it’s destiny
[06:34.33]	And one day I’ll be on a beach with Sonny writing checks to me
[06:37.10]	In the Heights, I hang my flag up on display
[06:40.86]	We came to work and to live and we got a lot in common
[06:42.75]	It reminds me that I came from miles away
[06:46.60]	D.R., P.R., we are not stoppin’
[06:48.35]	In the Heights
[06:49.18]	Every day, paciencia ye fe
[06:51.84]	Until the day we go from poverty to stock options
[06:54.17]	In the Heights
[06:54.89]	I’ve got today
[06:56.16]	And today’s all we got, so we cannot stop
[06:58.53]	This is our block!
[06:59.54]	In the Heights
[07:00.41]	I hang my flag up on display
[07:03.30]	Lo le lo le lo lai lai lo le!
[07:05.21]	It reminds me that I came from miles away
[07:08.62]	My family came from miles away-
[07:11.70]	In the Heights
[07:11.86]	It gets more expensive every day
[07:14.00]	Every day
[07:16.30]	And tonight is so far away-
[07:18.99]	But as for mañana, mi pana
[07:20.92]	Ya gotta just keep watchin’
[07:22.28]	You’ll see the
[07:22.98]	late nights
[07:23.74]	You’ll taste
[07:24.40]	beans and rice
[07:25.23]	The syrups and
[07:25.95]	shaved ice
[07:26.71]	I ain’t gonna
[07:27.50]	say it twice
[07:28.11]	So turn up the stage lights
[07:29.80]	We’re takin’ a flight
[07:30.95]	To a couple of days
[07:31.80]	in the life of what it’s like
[07:32.91]	En Washington Heights!

[00:08.48]	Lights up on Washington Heights, up at the break of day
[00:11.57]	I wake up and I got this little punk I gotta chase away
[00:14.45]	Pop the grate at the crack of dawn, sing
[00:17.24]	While I wipe down the awning
[00:19.21]	Hey y' all, good morning
[00:20.78]	Ice cold piragua! Parcha. China. Cherry. Strawberry.
[00:25.78]	And just for today, I got mamey!
[00:27.90]	Oye, piragü ero, como estas?
[00:29.56]	Como siempre, Se or Usnavi.
[00:31.70]	I am Usnavi and you prob' ly never heard my name
[00:35.60]	Reports of my fame are greatly exaggerated
[00:37.73]	Exacerbated by the fact that my syntax
[00:40.23]	Is highly complicated ' cuz I emigrated
[00:42.58]	From the single greatest little place in the Caribbean:
[00:45.18]	Dominican Republic!
[00:46.70]	I love it!
[00:47.46]	Jesus, I' m jealous of it
[00:48.78]	And beyond that
[00:49.42]	Ever since my folks passed on
[00:51.49]	I haven' t gone back
[00:52.86]	Goddamn, I gotta get on that...
[00:55.90]	Fo! The milk has gone bad, hold up just a second
[00:58.92]	Why is everything in this fridge warm and tepid?
[01:02.10]	I better step it up and fight the heat
[01:03.96]	' Cuz I' m not makin' any profit if the coffee isn' t light and sweet!
[01:08.40]	Ooooo!
[01:08.96]	Abuela, my fridge broke. I got cafe but no " con leche."
[01:11.32]	Try my mother' s old recipe: one can of condensed milk.
[01:15.32]	Nice.
[01:15.92]	Ay! Paciencia y fe
[01:19.53]	That was Abuela, she' s not really my " abuela,"
[01:22.50]	But she practically raised me, this corner is her escuela
[01:25.19]	Now, you' re prob' ly thinkin:
[01:26.59]	" I' m up shit' s creek!
[01:27.88]	I' ve never been north of NinetySixth Street!"
[01:30.30]	Well, you must take the A Train
[01:33.82]	Even farther than Harlem to northern Manhattan and maintain
[01:36.71]	Get off at 181st, and take the escalator
[01:39.83]	I hope you' re writing this down, I' m gonna test ya later
[01:42.69]	I' m getting tested times are tough on this bodega
[01:45.28]	Two months ago somebody bought Ortega' s
[01:47.70]	Our neighbors started packin' up and pickin' up
[01:49.79]	And ever since the rents went up
[01:51.14]	It' s gotten mad expensive
[01:52.51]	But we live with just enough
[01:53.98]	In the heights
[01:54.77]	I flip the lights and start my day
[01:59.30]	There are fights
[02:00.44]	And endless debts
[02:01.64]	And bills to pay
[02:05.29]	In the Heights
[02:06.27]	I can' t survive without cafe
[02:08.97]	I serve cafe
[02:10.96]	' Cuz tonight seems like a million years away!
[02:16.28]	En Washington
[02:17.44]	Next up to bat, the Rosarios
[02:19.39]	They run the cab company,
[02:20.90]	They struggle in the barrio
[02:22.41]	See, their daughter Nina' s off at college, tuition is mad steep
[02:25.79]	So they can' t sleep
[02:26.80]	Everything they get is mad cheap!
[02:28.81]	Good morning, Usnavi!
[02:31.48]	Pan caliente, cafe con leche!
[02:34.74]	Put twenty dollars on today' s lottery
[02:37.31]	One ticket, that' s it!
[02:38.72]	Hey! A man' s gotta dream...
[02:40.38]	Don' t mind him, he' s all excited
[02:43.19]	' Cuz Nina flew in at 3 A. M. last night!
[02:45.99]	Don' t look at me, this one' s been cooking all week!
[02:48.81]	Usnavi, come over for dinner
[02:51.57]	There' s plenty to eat!
[02:52.68]	So then Yesenia walks in the room
[02:55.11]	Aha
[02:56.10]	She smells sex and cheap perfume!
[02:58.10]	Uh oh
[02:58.80]	It smells like one of those trees
[03:00.36]	That you hang from the rear view!
[03:02.30]	Ah, no!
[03:03.62]	It' s true! She screams, " Who' s in there with you, Julio?"
[03:07.10]	Grabs a bat and kicks in the door
[03:09.96]	He' s in bed with Jose from the liquor store!
[03:13.15]	No me diga!
[03:15.61]	Daniela and Carla, from the salon.
[03:17.40]	Thanks, Usnavi!
[03:18.82]	Sonny, you' re late.
[03:21.19]	Chillax, you know you love me.
[03:24.98]	Me and my cousin runnin' just another dimeadozen
[03:28.12]	Momandpop stopandshop
[03:29.58]	And, oh my god, it' s gotten
[03:30.81]	Too darn hot, like my man Cole Porter said
[03:33.87]	People come through for a few cold waters and
[03:36.47]	A lottery ticket, just a part of the routine
[03:39.39]	Everybody' s got a job, everybody' s got a dream
[03:42.61]	They gossip, as I sip my coffee and smirk
[03:44.83]	The first stop as people hop to work
[03:47.44]	Bust it I' m like:
[03:48.76]	" One dollar, two dollars, one fifty, one sixtynine.
[03:51.28]	I got it. You want a box of condoms? What kind?
[03:53.98]	That' s two quarters.
[03:54.69]	Two quarter waters. The New York Times.
[03:56.59]	You need a bag for that? The tax is added.?"
[03:58.57]	Once you get some practice at it
[03:59.99]	You do rapid mathematics automatically
[04:01.48]	Sellin' maxipads, fuzzy dice for taxicabs and practically
[04:05.46]	Everybody' s stressed, yes!
[04:06.88]	But they press through the mess,
[04:08.92]	Bounce checks and wonder what' s next
[04:11.15]	In the heights
[04:11.95]	I buy my coffee and I go
[04:14.63]	I buy my coffee and
[04:16.68]	Set my sights
[04:17.50]	On only what I need to know
[04:20.60]	What I need to know
[04:22.16]	In the heights
[04:23.18]	Money is tight
[04:24.49]	But even so
[04:25.53]	Even so
[04:27.83]	When the lights go down I blast my radio!
[04:32.85]	You ain' t got no skills!
[04:34.79]	Benny!
[04:35.69]	Yo, lemme get a
[04:36.41]	Milky Way
[04:37.39]	Yeah, lemme also get a
[04:39.48]	Daily News
[04:40.28]	And a
[04:40.79]	Post
[04:41.26]	And most important, my
[04:42.52]	Boss' second coffee, one cream
[04:44.23]	Five sugars
[04:45.90]	I' m the number one earner
[04:46.38]	What?!
[04:46.96]	The fastest learner
[04:47.77]	What?!
[04:48.27]	My boss can' t keep me on the damn back burner!
[04:50.58]	Yes, he can
[04:51.39]	I' m makin' moves, I' m makin' deals, but guess what?
[04:53.94]	What?
[04:55.00]	You still ain' t got no skills!
[04:57.14]	Hardeehar
[04:57.96]	Yo, Vanessa show up yet?
[04:58.95]	Shut up!
[04:59.82]	Hey little homie, don' t get so upset
[05:01.78]	Man...
[05:02.47]	Tell Vanessa how you feel, buy the girl a meal
[05:05.38]	On the real, or you ain' t got no skills
[05:07.96]	Nooo!
[05:09.41]	No no nooo!
[05:12.30]	No no nooo, nonono!
[05:14.20]	Nooo, nonono!
[05:15.36]	Nononononononono, nonononono!
[05:18.14]	Mr. Johnson, I got the security deposit
[05:20.74]	It' s locked in a box in the bottom of my closet
[05:23.41]	It' s not reflected in my bank statement
[05:25.83]	But I' ve been savin' to make a down payment and pay rent
[05:28.93]	No, no, I won' t let you down
[05:31.28]	Yo, here' s your chance ask her out right now!
[05:34.30]	I' ll see you later, we can look at that lease!
[05:36.71]	Do somethin', make your move, don' t freeze!
[05:39.39]	Hey!
[05:39.85]	You owe me a bottle of cold champagne!
[05:43.90]	Are you moving?
[05:45.20]	Just a little credit check and I' m on that downtown train!
[05:49.22]	Well, your coffee' s on the house
[05:50.68]	Okay!
[05:51.98]	Usnavi, ask her out
[05:53.47]	No way!
[05:54.78]	I' ll see you later, so
[05:58.70]	Oooh... Smooth operator, aw, damn, there she goes!
[06:00.73]	Yo, bro, take five, take a walk outside!
[06:03.49]	You look exhausted, lost, don' t let life slide!
[06:05.98]	The whole hood is struggling, times are tight
[06:08.72]	And you' re stuck to this corner like a streetlight!
[06:14.57]	Yeah, I' m a streetlight, chokin' on the heat
[06:17.31]	The world spins around while I' m frozen to my seat
[06:20.12]	The people that I know all keep on rollin' down the street
[06:22.95]	But every day is different so I' m switchin' up the beat
[06:25.76]	' Cuz my parents came with nothing, they got a little more
[06:28.63]	And sure, we' re poor, but yo, at least we got the store
[06:31.39]	And it' s all about the legacy they left with me, it' s destiny
[06:34.33]	And one day I' ll be on a beach with Sonny writing checks to me
[06:37.10]	In the Heights, I hang my flag up on display
[06:40.86]	We came to work and to live and we got a lot in common
[06:42.75]	It reminds me that I came from miles away
[06:46.60]	D. R., P. R., we are not stoppin'
[06:48.35]	In the Heights
[06:49.18]	Every day, paciencia ye fe
[06:51.84]	Until the day we go from poverty to stock options
[06:54.17]	In the Heights
[06:54.89]	I' ve got today
[06:56.16]	And today' s all we got, so we cannot stop
[06:58.53]	This is our block!
[06:59.54]	In the Heights
[07:00.41]	I hang my flag up on display
[07:03.30]	Lo le lo le lo lai lai lo le!
[07:05.21]	It reminds me that I came from miles away
[07:08.62]	My family came from miles away
[07:11.70]	In the Heights
[07:11.86]	It gets more expensive every day
[07:14.00]	Every day
[07:16.30]	And tonight is so far away
[07:18.99]	But as for ma ana, mi pana
[07:20.92]	Ya gotta just keep watchin'
[07:22.28]	You' ll see the
[07:22.98]	late nights
[07:23.74]	You' ll taste
[07:24.40]	beans and rice
[07:25.23]	The syrups and
[07:25.95]	shaved ice
[07:26.71]	I ain' t gonna
[07:27.50]	say it twice
[07:28.11]	So turn up the stage lights
[07:29.80]	We' re takin' a flight
[07:30.95]	To a couple of days
[07:31.80]	in the life of what it' s like
[07:32.91]	En Washington Heights!

[00:08.48]	Lights up on Washington Heights, up at the break of day
[00:11.57]	I wake up and I got this little punk I gotta chase away
[00:14.45]	Pop the grate at the crack of dawn, sing
[00:17.24]	While I wipe down the awning
[00:19.21]	Hey y' all, good morning
[00:20.78]	Ice cold piragua! Parcha. China. Cherry. Strawberry.
[00:25.78]	And just for today, I got mamey!
[00:27.90]	Oye, piragü ero, como estas?
[00:29.56]	Como siempre, Se or Usnavi.
[00:31.70]	I am Usnavi and you prob' ly never heard my name
[00:35.60]	Reports of my fame are greatly exaggerated
[00:37.73]	Exacerbated by the fact that my syntax
[00:40.23]	Is highly complicated ' cuz I emigrated
[00:42.58]	From the single greatest little place in the Caribbean:
[00:45.18]	Dominican Republic!
[00:46.70]	I love it!
[00:47.46]	Jesus, I' m jealous of it
[00:48.78]	And beyond that
[00:49.42]	Ever since my folks passed on
[00:51.49]	I haven' t gone back
[00:52.86]	Goddamn, I gotta get on that...
[00:55.90]	Fo! The milk has gone bad, hold up just a second
[00:58.92]	Why is everything in this fridge warm and tepid?
[01:02.10]	I better step it up and fight the heat
[01:03.96]	' Cuz I' m not makin' any profit if the coffee isn' t light and sweet!
[01:08.40]	Ooooo!
[01:08.96]	Abuela, my fridge broke. I got café but no " con leche."
[01:11.32]	Try my mother' s old recipe: one can of condensed milk.
[01:15.32]	Nice.
[01:15.92]	Ay! Paciencia y fe
[01:19.53]	That was Abuela, she' s not really my " abuela,"
[01:22.50]	But she practically raised me, this corner is her escuela
[01:25.19]	Now, you' re prob' ly thinkin:
[01:26.59]	" I' m up shit' s creek!
[01:27.88]	I' ve never been north of NinetySixth Street!"
[01:30.30]	Well, you must take the A Train
[01:33.82]	Even farther than Harlem to northern Manhattan and maintain
[01:36.71]	Get off at 181st, and take the escalator
[01:39.83]	I hope you' re writing this down, I' m gonna test ya later
[01:42.69]	I' m getting tested times are tough on this bodega
[01:45.28]	Two months ago somebody bought Ortega' s
[01:47.70]	Our neighbors started packin' up and pickin' up
[01:49.79]	And ever since the rents went up
[01:51.14]	It' s gotten mad expensive
[01:52.51]	But we live with just enough
[01:53.98]	In the heights
[01:54.77]	I flip the lights and start my day
[01:59.30]	There are fights
[02:00.44]	And endless debts
[02:01.64]	And bills to pay
[02:05.29]	In the Heights
[02:06.27]	I can' t survive without café
[02:08.97]	I serve café
[02:10.96]	' Cuz tonight seems like a million years away!
[02:16.28]	En Washington
[02:17.44]	Next up to bat, the Rosarios
[02:19.39]	They run the cab company,
[02:20.90]	They struggle in the barrio
[02:22.41]	See, their daughter Nina' s off at college, tuition is mad steep
[02:25.79]	So they can' t sleep
[02:26.80]	Everything they get is mad cheap!
[02:28.81]	Good morning, Usnavi!
[02:31.48]	Pan caliente, café con leche!
[02:34.74]	Put twenty dollars on today' s lottery
[02:37.31]	One ticket, that' s it!
[02:38.72]	Hey! A man' s gotta dream...
[02:40.38]	Don' t mind him, he' s all excited
[02:43.19]	' Cuz Nina flew in at 3 A. M. last night!
[02:45.99]	Don' t look at me, this one' s been cooking all week!
[02:48.81]	Usnavi, come over for dinner
[02:51.57]	There' s plenty to eat!
[02:52.68]	So then Yesenia walks in the room
[02:55.11]	Aha
[02:56.10]	She smells sex and cheap perfume!
[02:58.10]	Uh oh
[02:58.80]	It smells like one of those trees
[03:00.36]	That you hang from the rear view!
[03:02.30]	Ah, no!
[03:03.62]	It' s true! She screams, " Who' s in there with you, Julio?"
[03:07.10]	Grabs a bat and kicks in the door
[03:09.96]	He' s in bed with José from the liquor store!
[03:13.15]	No me diga!
[03:15.61]	Daniela and Carla, from the salon.
[03:17.40]	Thanks, Usnavi!
[03:18.82]	Sonny, you' re late.
[03:21.19]	Chillax, you know you love me.
[03:24.98]	Me and my cousin runnin' just another dimeadozen
[03:28.12]	Momandpop stopandshop
[03:29.58]	And, oh my god, it' s gotten
[03:30.81]	Too darn hot, like my man Cole Porter said
[03:33.87]	People come through for a few cold waters and
[03:36.47]	A lottery ticket, just a part of the routine
[03:39.39]	Everybody' s got a job, everybody' s got a dream
[03:42.61]	They gossip, as I sip my coffee and smirk
[03:44.83]	The first stop as people hop to work
[03:47.44]	Bust it I' m like:
[03:48.76]	" One dollar, two dollars, one fifty, one sixtynine.
[03:51.28]	I got it. You want a box of condoms? What kind?
[03:53.98]	That' s two quarters.
[03:54.69]	Two quarter waters. The New York Times.
[03:56.59]	You need a bag for that? The tax is added.?"
[03:58.57]	Once you get some practice at it
[03:59.99]	You do rapid mathematics automatically
[04:01.48]	Sellin' maxipads, fuzzy dice for taxicabs and practically
[04:05.46]	Everybody' s stressed, yes!
[04:06.88]	But they press through the mess,
[04:08.92]	Bounce checks and wonder what' s next
[04:11.15]	In the heights
[04:11.95]	I buy my coffee and I go
[04:14.63]	I buy my coffee and
[04:16.68]	Set my sights
[04:17.50]	On only what I need to know
[04:20.60]	What I need to know
[04:22.16]	In the heights
[04:23.18]	Money is tight
[04:24.49]	But even so
[04:25.53]	Even so
[04:27.83]	When the lights go down I blast my radio!
[04:32.85]	You ain' t got no skills!
[04:34.79]	Benny!
[04:35.69]	Yo, lemme get a
[04:36.41]	Milky Way
[04:37.39]	Yeah, lemme also get a
[04:39.48]	Daily News
[04:40.28]	And a
[04:40.79]	Post
[04:41.26]	And most important, my
[04:42.52]	Boss' second coffee, one cream
[04:44.23]	Five sugars
[04:45.90]	I' m the number one earner
[04:46.38]	What?!
[04:46.96]	The fastest learner
[04:47.77]	What?!
[04:48.27]	My boss can' t keep me on the damn back burner!
[04:50.58]	Yes, he can
[04:51.39]	I' m makin' moves, I' m makin' deals, but guess what?
[04:53.94]	What?
[04:55.00]	You still ain' t got no skills!
[04:57.14]	Hardeehar
[04:57.96]	Yo, Vanessa show up yet?
[04:58.95]	Shut up!
[04:59.82]	Hey little homie, don' t get so upset
[05:01.78]	Man...
[05:02.47]	Tell Vanessa how you feel, buy the girl a meal
[05:05.38]	On the real, or you ain' t got no skills
[05:07.96]	Nooo!
[05:09.41]	No no nooo!
[05:12.30]	No no nooo, nonono!
[05:14.20]	Nooo, nonono!
[05:15.36]	Nononononononono, nonononono!
[05:18.14]	Mr. Johnson, I got the security deposit
[05:20.74]	It' s locked in a box in the bottom of my closet
[05:23.41]	It' s not reflected in my bank statement
[05:25.83]	But I' ve been savin' to make a down payment and pay rent
[05:28.93]	No, no, I won' t let you down
[05:31.28]	Yo, here' s your chance ask her out right now!
[05:34.30]	I' ll see you later, we can look at that lease!
[05:36.71]	Do somethin', make your move, don' t freeze!
[05:39.39]	Hey!
[05:39.85]	You owe me a bottle of cold champagne!
[05:43.90]	Are you moving?
[05:45.20]	Just a little credit check and I' m on that downtown train!
[05:49.22]	Well, your coffee' s on the house
[05:50.68]	Okay!
[05:51.98]	Usnavi, ask her out
[05:53.47]	No way!
[05:54.78]	I' ll see you later, so
[05:58.70]	Oooh... Smooth operator, aw, damn, there she goes!
[06:00.73]	Yo, bro, take five, take a walk outside!
[06:03.49]	You look exhausted, lost, don' t let life slide!
[06:05.98]	The whole hood is struggling, times are tight
[06:08.72]	And you' re stuck to this corner like a streetlight!
[06:14.57]	Yeah, I' m a streetlight, chokin' on the heat
[06:17.31]	The world spins around while I' m frozen to my seat
[06:20.12]	The people that I know all keep on rollin' down the street
[06:22.95]	But every day is different so I' m switchin' up the beat
[06:25.76]	' Cuz my parents came with nothing, they got a little more
[06:28.63]	And sure, we' re poor, but yo, at least we got the store
[06:31.39]	And it' s all about the legacy they left with me, it' s destiny
[06:34.33]	And one day I' ll be on a beach with Sonny writing checks to me
[06:37.10]	In the Heights, I hang my flag up on display
[06:40.86]	We came to work and to live and we got a lot in common
[06:42.75]	It reminds me that I came from miles away
[06:46.60]	D. R., P. R., we are not stoppin'
[06:48.35]	In the Heights
[06:49.18]	Every day, paciencia ye fe
[06:51.84]	Until the day we go from poverty to stock options
[06:54.17]	In the Heights
[06:54.89]	I' ve got today
[06:56.16]	And today' s all we got, so we cannot stop
[06:58.53]	This is our block!
[06:59.54]	In the Heights
[07:00.41]	I hang my flag up on display
[07:03.30]	Lo le lo le lo lai lai lo le!
[07:05.21]	It reminds me that I came from miles away
[07:08.62]	My family came from miles away
[07:11.70]	In the Heights
[07:11.86]	It gets more expensive every day
[07:14.00]	Every day
[07:16.30]	And tonight is so far away
[07:18.99]	But as for ma ana, mi pana
[07:20.92]	Ya gotta just keep watchin'
[07:22.28]	You' ll see the
[07:22.98]	late nights
[07:23.74]	You' ll taste
[07:24.40]	beans and rice
[07:25.23]	The syrups and
[07:25.95]	shaved ice
[07:26.71]	I ain' t gonna
[07:27.50]	say it twice
[07:28.11]	So turn up the stage lights
[07:29.80]	We' re takin' a flight
[07:30.95]	To a couple of days
[07:31.80]	in the life of what it' s like
[07:32.91]	En Washington Heights!

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