Alexandria:

I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
Ayo I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy and hungry
And I'm not throwing away my shot
Imma get a scholarship to Queens College
I probably shouldn't brag
But dag I amaze and astonish
The problem is I got a lot of
Brains but no polish
I gotta holla just to be heard
With every word
I drop knowledge
Im a diamond in the rough a shiny piece of coal
Tryna reach my goal:
My power of speech? Unimpeachable
Only nineteen but my mind is older
These New York City streets get colder
I shoulder
Ev'ry burden
Ev'ry disadvantage I have learned to manage
I don't have a gun to brandish
I walk these streets famished(Jan: woop!)
The plan is to fan this spark into a flame
But damn it's getting dark
So let me spell out my name
I am the-

Jan/Heracles/Lafayette/Alexandria:

A-L-E-X-A-N-D-RIA
We are
Meant to be

Alexandria:

A colony that runs independently
Meanwhile Britain keeps shitting on us endlessly
Essentially they tax us relentlessly
And Queen Georgia turns around
Runs a spending spree
She ain't never gonna set her descendants free
So there will be a revolution in this century
(Enter me)

Jan/Heracles/Lafayette:

She says in parenthesis

Alexandria:

Don't be shocked when you his'try book
Mentions me
I will lay down my life if it sets us free
Eventually you will see my ascendancy
And I am not throwing away my shot(Jan: my shot)
I am not throwing away my shot(my shot)
Ayo I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry

Jan/Alexandria:

And I'm not throwing away my shot

Jan/Heracles/Lafayette/Alexandria:

I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
Ayo I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
And I'm not throwing away my shot
It's time to take a shot

Lafayette:

I dream of life without the monarchy
The unrest in France
Will lead to onarchy
Onarchy? How you say? How you- oh!
Anarchy
When I fight I make the other side panicky
With my-

Jan/Alexandria/Heracles/Lafayette:

Shot

Heracles:

Yo I'm a tailor's apprentice
And I got y'all knuckleheads in loco parentis
I'm joining the rebellion
Cause I know it's my chance to socially advance
Instead of sowing some pants
I'm gon take a-

Jan/Alexandria/Lafayette/Heracles:

Shot

Jan:

Ay but we'll never be truly free
Until those in bondage have the same rights
As you and me(Alexandria: that's right)
You and I do or die(woo!)
Wait till sally in
On a stallion
With the first black battalion
Have another-

Jan/Alexandria/Lafayette/Heracles:

Shot

Asha:

Geniuses
Lower your voices
You keep out of trouble and you double your
Choices
I'm with you but the situation is fraught
You got to be carefully taught
If you talk, you gonna get
Shot

Alexandria:

Burr, check what we got
Mrs Lafayette
Hard rock like Lancelot
I think your pants look hot
Laurens, I like you a lot
Let's hatch a plot blacker than the
Kettle callin' the pot
What are the odds the gods would put us
All in one spot
Poppin' a squat on conventional wisdom
Like it or not
A bunch of revolutionary manumission
Abolitionists
Give Me a position show me where the
Ammunition is
Oh am I talking to loud?
Something i get overexcited
Shoot off at the mouth
I never had a group of friends before
I promise that I'll make y'all proud

Jan:

Let's get this gal in front of a crowd

Company:

I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
Ayo I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
And I'm not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
Ayo I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
And I'm not throwing away my shot

Jan:

Ev'rybody sing

Alexandria/Heracles/Lafayette:

Woah, woah, woah(ay! woah, woo! woah, woah)

Jan:

Said let 'em hear ya(yeah)
Let's go

Company:

Woah, woah, woah(Jan: I said, shout it to the rooftops)
Woah(said to the rooftops)
Woah(come on)
Yeah(come on, let's go)

Jan:

Rise up
When you're living on your knees
You rise up
Tell your sister that she's gotta rise up
Tell your brother that he's gotta rise up

Jan/Alexandria/Heracles/Lafayette/company:

When are these colonies gonna rise up?
(Woah, woah, woah)
When are these colonies gonna rise up?
(Woah)
When are these colonies gonna rise up?
(Woah)
When are these colonies gonna rise up?
(Woah)
Rise up(rise up)

Alexandria:

I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
When's it gonna get me?
In my sleep?
Seven feet ahead of me?
If I see it coming do I run
Or do I let it be?
Is it like a beat without a melody
See I never thought I'd live past twenty
Where I come from, some get half as many
Ask anybody why we livin' fast
And we laugh
Reach for a flask
We have to make this moment last,
That's plenty
Scratch that
This is not a moment it's the movement
Where all the hungriest sisters with
Something to prove went?
Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand
We roll like Moses, claimin' our promise land
And if we win our independence
Is that a guarantee of freedom for our descendants
Or will the blood we shed begin an endless
Cycle of vengeance and death
With no defendants
I know the action in the street is excitin'
But Jesus, between all the bleedin' and fightin'
I've been readin' and writin'
We need to handle all the financial situation
Are we a nation of states?
What's the state of our nation?
I'm past patiently waitin'
I'm passionately smashin' Ev'ry expectation
Ev'ry action's an act of creation
I'm laughing in the face of casualties and sorrow
For the first time I'm thinking past tomorrow

Alexandria/Company:

And I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
Ayo I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
And I'm not throwing away my shot

Alex/Jan/Lafayette/Heracles/Company:

We're gonna rise up, time to take a shot
(Not throwing away my shot)
We're gonna rise up, time to take a shot
(Not throwing away my shot)
We gonna(rise up rise up)

Alex:

Time to take shot(rise up rise up)

Alex/Jan/Lafayette/Heracles:

It's time to take a shot(rise up, woah)
It's time to take a shot(rise up)
Take a shot shot shot(ri-ri-ri)
Ayo it's time to take a shot
Time to take a shot
And I am not throwing away my

Alex/Jan/Lafayette/Heracles/Company:

Not throwing away my shot