“It’s Quiet Uptown“ from HAMILTON

“It’s Quiet Uptown“ from the musical HAMILTON Performed by Alex Lacamoire, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton, Phillipa Soo, Renée Elise Goldsberry Written by Lin-Manuel Miranda [ANGELICA] There are moments that the words don’t reach There is suffering too terrible to name You hold your child as tight as you can And push away the unimaginable The moments when you’re in so deep It feels easier to just swim down [ANGELICA/ENSEMBLE] The Hamiltons move uptown And learn to live with the unimaginable [HAMILTON] I spend hours in the garden I walk alone to the store And it’s quiet uptown I never liked the quiet before I take the children to church on Sunday A sign of the cross at the door And I pray That never used to happen before [ANGELICA AND WOMEN] If you see him in the street, walking by Himself, talking to himself, have pity [HAMILTON] Philip, you wo