~Dear Theodosia~

Daishou: Dear Shigeru, what to say to you?
You have my eyes, you have your mother's name
When you came into the world, you cried
And it broke my heart
I'm dedicating every day to you
Domestic life was never quite my style
When you smile, you knock me out, I fall apart
And I thought I was so smart
You will come of age with our young nation
We'll bleed and fight for you
We'll make it right for you
If we lay a strong enough foundation
We'll pass it on to you, we'll give the world to you
And you'll blow us all away
Someday, someday
Yeah, you'll blow us all away
Someday, someday

Kuroo: Oh, Shoyo, when you smile I am undone
My son, look at my son
Pride is not the word I'm looking for
There is so much more inside me now
Oh, Shoyo, you outshine the morning sun
My son
When you smile, I fall apart
And I thought I was so smart

Kuroo/Daishou: Will come of age with our young nation
We'll bleed and fight for you
We'll make it right for you
If we lay a strong enough foundation
We'll pass it on to you, we'll give the world to you
And you'll blow us all away
Someday, someday
Yeah, you'll blow us all away
Someday, someday

~Non-Stop~

Daishou:
After the war I went back to New York

Kuroo:
A-After the war I went back to New York

Daishou:
I finished up my studies and I practiced law

Kuroo:
I practiced law, Burr worked next door

Daishou:
Even though we started at the very same time
Alexander Hamilton began to climb
How to account for his rise to the top?
Maaaaan, the man is
Non-stop!

Ensemble:
Non-stop!

Kuroo:
Gentlemen of the jury, I’m curious, bear with me
Are you aware that we’re making hist’ry?
This is the first murder trial of our brand-new nation

Kuroo:
The liberty behind
Deliberation—

Ensemble:
Non-stop!

Kuroo:
I intend to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt
With my assistant counsel—

Daishou:
Co-counsel
Kuroo, sit down
Our client Levi Weeks is innocent. Call your first witness
That’s all you had to say!

Kuroo:
Okay!
One more thing—

Daishou:
Why do you assume you’re the smartest in the room?
Why do you assume you’re the smartest in the room?
Why do you assume you’re the smartest in the room?
Soon that attitude may be your doom!

Ensemble:
Awwww!

Daishou:
Why do you write like you’re running out of time?
Write day and night like you’re running out of time?
Ev’ry day you fight, like you’re running out of time

Keep on fighting. In the meantime— [Ensemble]:
Why do you write like you’re running out of time?

Ev’ry day you fight, like you’re running out of time

Non-stop!

Kuroo:
Corruption’s such an old song that we can sing along in harmony
And nowhere is it stronger than in Albany
This colony’s economy’s increasingly stalling and

Kuroo:
Honestly, that’s why public service
Seems to be calling me.

Daishou/Ensemble:
He’s just
Non-stop!

Kuroo:
I practiced the law, I practic’ly perfected it
I’ve seen injustice in the world and I’ve corrected it
Now for a strong central democracy
If not, then I’ll be Socrates

Kuroo:
Throwing verbal rocks
At these mediocrities.

Ensemble:
Awww!

Daishou:
Kuroo, at the Constitutional Convention:

Kuroo:
I was chosen for the Constitutional Convention!

Daishou:
There as a New York junior delegate:

Kuroo:
Now what I’m going to say may sound indelicate…

Daishou:
Goes and proposes his own form of government!

His own plan for a new form of government!

Company:
Awwww!

What?

What?

Daishou:
Talks for six hours! The convention is listless!

Ensemble [Men]:
Bright young man…

Another Ensemble Man:
Yo, who the f is this?

Daishou:
Why do you always say what you believe?
Why do you always say what you believe?
Ev’ry proclamation guarantees free ammunition for your enemies!

Daishou and Men:
Why do you write like it’s
Going out of style?
Write day and night like it’s
Going out of style?

Company:
Why do you always say what you believe?

Awww!

All Woman:
Going out of style, hey!

Going out of style, hey!

Daishou and Company:
Ev’ry day you fight like it’s
Going out of style
Do what you do

Percussion: knocking sound

Daishou:
Tetsurou?

Kuroo:
Suguru Daishou, sir

Daishou:
It’s the middle of the night

Kuroo:
Can we confer, sir?

Daishou:
Is this a legal matter?

Kuroo:
Yes, and it’s important to me

Daishou:
What do you need?

Kuroo:
Daishou, you’re a better lawyer than me

Daishou:
Okay

Kuroo:
I know I talk too much, I’m abrasive
You’re incredible in court. You’re succinct, persuasive
My client needs a strong defense. You’re the solution

Daishou:
Who’s your client?

Kuroo:
The new U.S. Constitution?

Daishou:
No

Kuroo:
Hear me out

Daishou:
No way!

Kuroo:
A series of essays, anonymously published
Defending the document to the public

Daishou:
No one will read it

Kuroo:
I disagree

Daishou:
And if it fails?

Kuroo:
Daishou, that’s why we need it

Daishou:
The constitution’s a mess

Kuroo:
So it needs amendments

Daishou:
It’s full of contradictions

Kuroo:
So is independence
We have to start somewhere

Daishou:
No. No way

Kuroo:
You’re making a mistake

Daishou:
Good night

Kuroo:
Hey
What are you waiting for?
What do you stall for?

Daishou:
What?

Kuroo:
We won the war
What was it all for?
Do you support this constitution?

Daishou:
Of course

Kuroo:
Then defend it

Daishou:
And what if you’re backing the wrong horse?

Kuroo:
Daishou, we studied and we fought and we killed
For the notion of a nation we now get to build
For once in your life, take a stand with pride
I don’t understand how you stand to the side

Daishou:
I’ll keep all my plans
Close to my chest

I’ll wait here and see
Which way the wind
Will blow
I’m taking my time
Watching the
Afterbirth of a nation
Watching the tension grow.

Ensemble:
Wait for it, wait for
It, wait…

Which way the wind
Will blow
I’m taking my time
Watching the
Afterbirth of a nation
Watching the tension grow.

Keiji:
I am sailing off to London. I’m accompanied by someone
Who always pays
I have found a wealthy husband who will keep
Me in comfort for all my days
He is not a lot of fun, but there’s no one who
Can match you for turn of phrase
My Tetsurou

Kuroo:
Keiji

Keiji:
Don’t forget to write

Kōshi:
Look at where you are
Look at where you started
The fact that you’re alive is a miracle
Just stay alive, that would be enough
And if your Husband could share a fraction of your time
If I could grant you peace of mind
Would that be enough?

Daishou:
Tetsurou joins forces with Satori Tendou and Chikara Ennoshita to write a series of essays defending the new United States Constitution, entitled The Federalist Papers. The plan was to write a total of twenty-five essays, the work divided evenly among the three men. In the end, they wrote eighty-five essays, in the span of six months. Chikara Ennoshita got sick after writing five. Satori Tendou wrote twenty-nine. Kuroo wrote the other fifty-one!

Daishou:
How do you write like you’re
Running out of time?
Write day and night like you’re
Running out of time?

Daishou and Men:
Ev’ry day you fight
Like you’re
Running out of time
Like you’re
Running out of time
Are you
Running out of time?
All Woman:
Running out of time?

Running out of time?

Running out of time

Running out of time

Awwww!

Full Company (Except Kuroo):
How do you write like tomorrow won’t arrive?
How do you write like you need it to survive?
How do you write ev’ry second you’re alive?
Ev’ry second you’re alive? Ev’ry second you’re alive?

Daichi:
They are asking me to lead
I am doing the best I can
To get the people that I need
I’m asking you to be my right hand man

Kuroo:
Treasury or State?

Daichi:
I know it’s a lot to ask

Kuroo:
Treasury or State?

Daichi:
To leave behind the world you know…

Kuroo:
Sir, do you want me to run the Treasury or State department?

Daichi:
Treasury

Kuroo:
Let’s go

Kōshi:
Tetsurou…

Kuroo:
I have to leave

Kōshi:
Tetsurou—

Kuroo:
Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now

Kōshi:
Helpless…

Kuroo:
They are asking me to lead

Kōshi:
Look around, isn’t this enough?

Keiji:
He will never be satisfied
He will never be satisfied

Satisfied
Satisfied…

He will never be satisfied

Satisfied

Satisfied…

Why do you fight like
History has its eyes on you…

Kuroo:
I am not throwin’ away my shot!

I am not throwin’ away my shot!
I am
Tetsurou Kuroo!

I am not throwin’ away my shot!

Kōshi:
What would be enough

To be
Satisfied
Satisfied
Satisfied…

Look around
Look around!

Isn’t this enough?
What would be enough?

Why do you fight like
History has its eyes on you...

Men:
Just you wait!

Full Company:
Just you wait!
Tetsurou Kuroo
Kuroo, just you wait!

Daichi:
History has its eyes…
On…
You!

Daichi/Atsumu/Bokuto/Oikawa:
History has its eyes…
On…
You...

History has its eyes on you...

Daishou:
Why do you assume you’re the smartest in the room? Why do you assume you’re the smartest in the room? Why do you assume you’re the smartest in the room?
Soon that attitude’s gonna be your doom!
Why do you fight like you’re running out of time?

Why do you fight like
History has its eyes on you…

Ensemble:
Non-stop!

Non-stop!

Non-stop!

Non-stop!

History has its eyes on you...

~What'd I miss?~

Company:
Seventeen, se- se- seventeen
Se- se- seventeen

Daishou:
Seventeen eighty-nine
How does the bastard orphan, immigrant decorated war vet
Unite the colonies through more debt?
Fight the other founding fathers 'til he has to forfeit?
Have it all, lose it all
You ready for more yet?
Treasury Secretary, Washington's the President
Every American experiment sets a precedent
Not so fast, someone came along to resist him
Pissed him off until we had a two-party system
You haven't met him yet, you haven't had the chance
'Cause he's been kickin' ass as the ambassador to France
But someone's gotta keep the American promise
You simply must meet Eita, Eita

Company:
Eita Semi coming home
Eita Semi coming home
Eita Semi coming home
Eita Semi coming home
Eita Semi coming home Lord he's been off in Paris for so long
(Aaa-ooo)
(Aaa-ooo)

Semi:
France is following us to revolution
There is no more status quo
But the sun comes up and the world still spins
I helped Lafayette draft a declaration
Then I said, I gotta go
I gotta be in Monticello
Now the work at home begins
So what'd I miss?
What'd I miss?
Virginia, my home sweet home, I wanna give you a kiss
I've been in Paris meeting lots of different ladies
I guess I basically missed the late eighties
I traveled the wide, wide world and came back to this

Aaa-ooo

Semi:
There's a letter on my desk from the President
Haven't even put my bags down yet Sally be a lamb, darlin' won'tcha open it?
It says the President's assembling a cabinet
And that I am to be the Secretary of State, great
And that I'm already Senate-approved
I just got home and now I'm headed up to New York

Semi:
Headin' to New York, headin' to New York
Lookin' at the rolling fields I can't believe that we are free
Ready to face, whatever's awaiting
Me in N.Y.C.
But who's waitin' for me when I step in the place?
My friend Satori Tendou, red in the face
He grabs my arm
And I respond, what's goin' on?
(Aa-oo)

Tendou:
Semi, we are engaged in a battle for our nation's very soul
Can you get us out of the mess we're in?
Kuroo's new financial plan is nothing less than government control
I've been fighting for the South alone
Where have you been?

Semi:
Uh France (aa-ooo)

Tendou:
We have to win

Semi:
What'd I miss? (What'd what'd what'd I miss)
What'd I miss? (I've come home to this)
Headfirst into a political abyss (headfirst, into the abyss)
I have my first cabinet meeting today (chik-a-pow)
I guess I better think of something to say
I'm already on my way get to the bottom of this
(What did I miss?) aa-ooo

Daichi:
Mr. Semi, welcome home

Kuroo:
Mr. Semi Tetsurou Kuroo

Daichi:
Mr. Semi, welcome home
Mr. Semi, welcome home, sir, you've been off in Paris for so long

Semi:
So what did I miss?