Burn from Hamilton (by Lin-Manuel Miranda)
[Intro]
Bm F# G D Em7 x2
[Verse]
(ELIZA)
Bm F#
I saved every letter you wrote me
G D
From the moment I read them
Em7 Bm
I knew you were mine
F#
You said you were mine
G D Em7
I thought you were mine
Bm F#
Do you know what Angelica said
G D Em7
When we saw your first letter arrive?
She said
Bm F#
“Be careful with that one, love
G D
He will do what it takes to survive.”
[Pre-Chorus]
Em7/C# Bm F#
You and your words flooded my senses
G D
Your sentences left me defenseless
Em7 Bm F#
You built me palaces out of paragraphs
G D Em7
You built cathedrals
Bm F#
I’m re-reading the letters you wrote me
G D
I’m searching and scanning for answers
Em7 Bm
In every line
F#
For some kind of sign
G
And when you were mine
The world seemed to
[Chorus]
D/A Bm F#m F#m/E F#/D Gmaj7
Burn
D/A Bm F#m F#m/E F#/D Gmaj7
Burn
[Verse]
Bm F#
You published the letters she wrote you
G D
You told the whole world how you brought
Em7 Bm
This girl into our bed
F# G D Em7
In clearing your name, you have ruined our lives
Bm F# G
Do you know what Angelica said
D Em7
When she read what you’d done?
Bm
She said
F#
“You have married an Icarus
G D
He has flown too close to the sun.”
[Pre-Chorus]
Em7/C# Bm F#
You and your words, obsessed with your legacy...
G D
Your sentences border on senseless
Em7 Bm F#
And you are paranoid in every paragraph
G
How they perceive you
You, you, you…
Bm F#
I’m erasing myself from the narrative
G D Em7
Let future historians wonder how Eliza
Bm F#
Reacted when you broke her heart
G
You have torn it all apart
I am watching it
[Chorus]
D/A Bm F#m F#m/E F#/D Gmaj7
Burn
D/A Bm F#m F#m/E F#/D Gmaj7
Watching it burn
[Bridge]
A D
The world has no right to my heart
D/Bb
The world has no place in our bed
Bm7 Gmaj7
They don’t get to know what I said
A D
I’m burning the memories
D/Bb Bm7
Burning the letters that might have redeemed you
Gmaj7 A D
You forfeit all rights to my heart
D/Bb
You forfeit the place in our bed
Bm7 Gmaj7
You'll sleep in your office instead
A D
With only the memories
D/Bb D/F# D/E D G
Of when you were mine
[Outro]
Bm F# G D Em7 Bm9
I hope that you burn
