It’s Quiet Uptown [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 would like it uptown It’s quiet uptown [ANGELICA AND WOMEN] He is working through the unimaginable [ALL MEN (EXCEPT HAMILTON)] His hair has gone grey. He passes every day They say he walks the length of the city [HAMILTON] You knock me out, I fall apart [COMPANY (EXCEPT HAMILTON AND ELIZA)]
don’t reach There is a grace too powerful to name We push away what we can never understand We push away the unimaginable They are standing in the garden Alexander by Eliza’s side She takes his hand [ELIZA] It’s quiet uptown [COMPANY (EXCEPT HAMILTON AND ELIZA)] Forgiveness. Can you imagine? Forgiveness. Can you imagine? If you see him in the street, walking by her Side, talking by her side, have pity They are going through the unimaginable