in the heights lyrics – Lin-Manuel Miranda

Song: in the heights
Singer: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Music: Sergio George, Mike Elizondo
Album: In the Heights (2021)
Label: Atlantic Records
Genre: English Songs

Lights up on Washington Heights, up at the break of day
I wake up and I got this little punk I gotta chase away
Pop the grate at the crack of dawn
Sing while I wipe down the awning
Hey y’all, good morning

Ice cold piragua Parcha. China. Cherry. Strawberry. And just for today, I got mamey

Oye, piragüero, como estas?

Como siempre, Señor Usnavi.​
Ice cold piragua Parcha…

I am Usnavi and you prob’ly never heard my name
Reports of my fame are greatly exaggerated
Exacerbated by the fact that my syntax is highly complicated
‘Cause I immigrated from the single greatest
Little place in the Caribbean:
Dominican Republic I love it
Jesus, I’m jealous of it, and beyond that
Ever since my folks passed on, I haven’t gone back
God damn, I gotta get on that
Fo The milk has gone bad, hold up just a second
Why is everything in this fridge warm and tepid?
I better step it up and fight the heat
‘Cause I’m not makin’ any profit if the coffee isn’t light and sweet

Ooo-oo

Abuela, my fridge broke. I got café but no “con leche.”

Ay Dios, try my mother’s old recipe: one can of condensed milk

Nice.​ Oh wait, your lottery ticket

Paciencia y fe…

That was Abuela, she’s not really my “abuela,”
But she practically raised me, this corner is her escuela
Now, you’re probably thinkin: “I’m up shit’s creek”

I’ve never been north of Ninety-Sixth Street

All of Me Lyrics – John Legend | Love in the Future

Well, you must take the A Train
Even farther than Harlem, to northern Manhattan, and maintain
Get off at 181st, and take the escalator
I hope you’re writing this down, I’m gonna test ya later
I’m getting tested; times are tough on this bodega
Two months ago somebody bought Ortega’s
Our neighbors started packin’ up and pickin’ up and ever since the rents went up
It’s gotten mad expensive, but we live with just enough
In the heights
I flip the lights and start my day
There are fights

And endless debts

And bills to pay

In the Heights
I can’t survive without café

I serve café

‘Cause tonight seems like a million years away
En Washington

Next up, ding Kevin Rosario
He runs the cab company,​ he struggles in the barrio
See, his daughter Nina’s off at college, tuition is mad steep
So he can’t sleep; everything he get is mad cheap

Good morning, Usnavi

Pan caliente, café con leche

Put twenty dollars on today’s lottery

Okay, must be a lucky day

Gotta be

Oh my God, you’re so excited

My Nina flew in at 3 A.M. last night

Sweet, Abuela’s been cooking all week

Compay, when I see you this weekend

Oh, we gonna eat

Every Night In My Dreams Lyrics (Titanic) – Celine Dion

So then Yesenia walks in the room

Aha…

She smells sex and cheap perfume

Ooh Ooh

It smells like one of those trees
That you hang from the rearview

Ai, no

It’s true She screams, “Who’s in there with you, Julio?”

Daniela

Grabs a bat and kicks in the door

Carla

He’s in bed with José from the liquor store

No me diga

And that’s Cuca, the salon ladies.​

Thanks, Usnavi

Sonny, you’re late.​

Chillax, you know you love me.​

Me and my cousin runnin’
Just another dime-a-dozen mom-and-pop stop-and-shop
And, oh my god, it’s gotten too darn hot
Like my man Cole Porter said
People come through for a few cold waters and a lottery ticket, just a part of the routine
Everybody’s got a job, everybody’s got a dream
They gossip, as I sip my coffee and smirk
The first stop as people hop to work, bust it I’m like:
“One dollar, two dollars, one fifty, one sixty-nine.​
I got it. You want a box of condoms? What kind? That’s two quarters
Two quarter waters, the New York Times
You need a bag for that? The tax is added.​”
Once you get some practice at it
You do rapid mathematics automatically sellin’ maxi-pads, fuzzy dice for taxicabs
Practically everybody’s stressed, yes
But they press through the mess, bounce checks and wonder what’s next

In the heights
I buy my coffee and I go (I buy my coffee and I go)
Set my sights
On only what I need to know (what I need to know)
In the heights
Money is tight
But even so (Even so)
When the lights go down I blast my radio

You ain’t got no skills

Benny

Yo, lemme get a

Milky Way

Yup, and lemme also get a

Daily News

And a

Post

And the most important, my

Boss’ second coffee, one cream

Five sugars

I’m the number one earner

What?

The fastest learner

What?

My boss, he can’t keep me on the damn back burner

Yes, he can

I’m makin’ moves, I’m makin’ deals, but guess what?

What?

You still ain’t got no skills

Hardee-har

Yo, Vanessa show up yet?

Shut up

Hey little homie, don’t get so upset

Man…

Tell Vanessa how you feel, buy the girl a meal
On the real, or

You ain’t got no skills

Nooo
No no nooo
No no nooo, no-no-no
Nooo, no-no-no
No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no, no-no-no-no-no
Mr. Johnson, I got the security deposit
It’s locked in a box in the bottom of my closet
It’s not reflected in my bank statement
But I’ve been savin’ to make a down payment and pay rent
No, no, I won’t let you down

Yo, here’s your chance; ask her out right now

I’ll see you later, we can look at that lease

Yo, do somethin’, make your move, don’t freeze

Hey

You owe me a bottle of cold champagne

Are you moving?

Just a little credit check and I’m on that downtown train

Well, your coffee’s on the house

Okay

Usnavi, ask her out

No way

I’ll see you later, so…

Yo, smooth operator, aw, damn, there she go
Yo, bro, take five, take a walk outside
You look exhausted, lost, don’t let life slide
The whole hood is struggling, times is tight
And you’re stuck to this corner like a streetlight

Yeah, I’m a streetlight, chokin’ on the heat
The world spins around while I’m frozen to my seat
The people that I know all keep on rollin’ down the street
But every day is different so I’m switchin’ up the beat
‘Cause my parents came with nothing, they got a little more
And sure, we’re poor, but yo, at least we got the store
And it’s all about the legacy they left with me, it’s destiny
And one day I’ll be on a beach with Sonny writing checks to me

In the Heights, I hang my flag up on display

We came to work and to live and we got a lot in common

It reminds me that I came from miles away

D.R., P.R., we are not stoppin’

In the Heights

Every day, paciencia y fe (Ooh)

Until the day we go from poverty to stock options

In the Heights
I’ve got today

Today’s all we got, so we cannot stop
This is our block

In the Heights, I hang my flag up on display

Lo le lo le lo lai lai lo le

It reminds me that I came from miles away

My family came from miles away

In the Heights
It gets more expensive every day

Every day

And tonight is so far away

But as for mañana, mi pana
Ya gotta just keep watchin’ (In the heights)
You’ll see the late nights
You’ll taste beans and rice (In the heights)
The syrups and shaved ice
I ain’t gonna say it twice (In the heights)
So turn up the street lights (Ah)
We’re takin’ a flight
To a couple of days in the life of what it’s like

En Washington Heights