歌手:Lin-Manuel Miranda
专辑:《In The Heights (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)》

作曲 : Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lights up on Washington heights, up at the break of the day
I wake up and got this little punk I gotta chase away
Pop the grate at the crack of dawn
Sing while I wipe down the awning
Hey ya'll good morning
Ice cold piragua parcha china cherry strawberry
And just for today I got mamey
Oye piragüero como estas
Como siempre Señor Usnavi
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 'cuz I emigrated
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
Goddamn 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
'Cuz I'm not making 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
Ay 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 96'th Street
Well you must take the A train
Even farther than Harlem to northern Manhattan and maintain
Get off at 181'st and take the escalator
I hope you're writin' this down
I'm gonna test you 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
'Cuz 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 your 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
Are we gonna eat
So then Yesenia walks in the room
Aha
She smells sex and cheap perfume
Oh No
It smells like one of those trees that you hang from the rear view
Ay no
It's true
she screams 'Who's in there with you Julio?'
Grabs a bat and kicks in the door
He's in bed with Jose from the liquor store
No me diga
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' maxipads
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)
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
Lemme get a
Milky way
Yeah lemme also get a
Daily News
And a
Post
And 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
Har-dee-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 the lease
Bro do somethin'
Make your move, don't freeze
Hey
You owe me a bottle of cold champagne
Are you movin'
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 are tight
And you're stuck to this corner light a streetlight
Yeah I'm a streetlight, choking 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
'Cuz 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
DR PR
We are not stoppin'
In the Heights
Every day paciencia y fe
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 form miles away
My family came from miles away
In the heights
It gets more expensive
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)
Turn up the streetlights
We're takin' a flight
To a couple of days in the life of what it's like
En Washington heights!