Lin-Manuel Miranda & “In the Heights” Original Broadway Company
“In the Heights” Original Broadway Company & Mandy Gonzalez
Christopher Jackson & Mandy Gonzalez
Karen Olivo, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Robin de Jesús
Carlos Gómez
Andrea Burns, Janet Dacal, Karen Olivo & Mandy Gonzalez
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Christopher Jackson, Robin de Jesús, Seth Stewart, Janet Dacal & Andrea Burns
Olga Merediz & “In the Heights” Original Broadway Company
Mandy Gonzalez, Christopher Jackson & “In the Heights” Original Broadway Company
Eliseo Román
“In the Heights” Original Broadway Company
“In the Heights” Original Broadway Company
Mandy Gonzalez, Christopher Jackson & “In the Heights” Original Broadway Company
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Olga Merediz
Priscilla Lopez
Andréa Burns
Carlos Gómez
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mandy Gonzalez & “In the Heights” Original Broadway Company
Mandy Gonzalez
Eliseo Román
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Karen Olivo
Mandy Gonzalez & Christopher Jackson
Doreen Montalvo, Lin-Manuel Miranda & “In the Heights” Original Broadway Company
Lin-Manuel Miranda & “In the Heights” Original Broadway Company
Karen Olivo, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Robin de Jesús
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Christopher Jackson, Robin de Jesús, Seth Stewart, Janet Dacal & Andrea Burns
Mandy Gonzalez, Christopher Jackson & “In the Heights” Original Broadway Company
This song takes place the next morning. Usnavi begins to close up the shop and imagines how things will change. However, Sonny reveals that he commissioned Graffiti Pete to paint a mural of Abuela Claudia on the bodega’s grate. Usnavi is stunned by the memorial. He comes to the realization that eve...
[BOLERO SINGER]
No te vayas
Si me dejas
Si te alejas de mi
Seguirás en mis recuerdos para siempre
Para siempre, para siempre
Para siem—
Para siem—
Para siempre…
[USNAVI]
Lights out on Washington Heights and now the crack of dawn
The blackout goes on and on and on…
[BOLERO SINGER]
Para siempre
[USNAVI]
Sonny’s out back, sortin’ the trash
As I think about the past with a sack full of cash
[BOLERO SINGER]
Para siempre
[USNAVI]
Abuela really wanted me up on a beach
With margaritas in my reach and
Soon that’s how it’s gonna be
[BOLERO SINGER]
Para siempre
[USNAVI]
Imagine me, leaving today
On a seven forty-seven boardin’ JFK
[CARLA]
The hydrants are open
Cool breezes blow
[CARLA/DANIELA]
The hydrants are open
Cool breezes blow
[PIRAGUA GUY, KEVIN, CARLA/DANIELA]
Piragua, piragua (Good morning) (The hydrants are open)
New block of ice, piragua (Cool breezes blow)
So sweet and nice, piragua
Piragua, piragua
[PIRAGUA GUY, (KEVIN), (CARLA/DANIELA), (CAMILA)]
Piragua, piragua (Good morning) (The hydrants are open) (Siempre)
New block of ice, piragua (Cool breezes blow)
So sweet and nice, piragua (Seguiras en mis recuerdos)
Piragua, piragua (Para siempre)
[PIRAGUA GUY, (KEVIN), (CARLA/DANIELA), (CAMILA), (VANESSA)]
Piragua, piragua (Good morning) (The hydrants are open) (Siempre) (I'll be downtown)
New block of ice, piragua (Cool breezes blow)
So sweet and nice, piragua (It won't be long now) (Seguiras en mis recuerdos)
Piragua, piragua (Para siempre)
[USNAVI]
There’s a breeze off the Hudson
And just when
You think you’re sick of living here, the memory floods in
The morning light off the fire escapes
The nights in Bennett Park blasting Big Pun tapes
I’ma miss this place, to tell you the truth
Kevin dispensin’ wisdom from his dispatch booth
And at dawn, Vanessa at the salon, we gotta move on
But who’s gonna notice we’re gone?
When our job’s done, as the evening winds
Down to a crawl, son, can I ease my mind
When we’re all done? When we’ve resigned
In the long run, what do we leave behind?
Most of all, I’ll miss Abuela’s whispers
Doin’ the Lotto Pick Six every Christmas
In five years, when this whole city’s rich folks and hipsters
Who’s gonna miss this raggedy little business?
[GRAFFITI PETE, spoken]
What it do? Ha ha, great sunlight this morning.
[SONNY, spoken]
Yo, cuz! We fixed the grate
[USNAVI, spoken]
What did I tell you about this punk?
[SONNY, spoken]
You have to commission an artist while his rate is still good.
[GRAFFITI PETE, spoken]
It’s the first work in my new series.
He rolls down the grate, revealing a mural of Abuela Claudia. Silence
[GRAFFITI PETE, spoken]
He hates it.
[SONNY, spoken]
Shh. He’s forming an artistic opinion.
[USNAVI, sung]
You did this last night?
[GRAFFITI PETE]
Yeah
[USNAVI]
There goes my flight.
[SONNY]
What?
[USNAVI]
Graffiti Pete, you’re gonna need some new cans
Here’s some money, finish up
There’s been a slight change of plans
[GRAFFITI PETE]
Nice!
[USNAVI]
Listen up, guys, you got a job, I’m not playin’
You gotta go now, tell the whole block I’m stayin’
Go ahead, tell everyone we know!
Sonny—
[Usnavi pauses, choked up.]
[USNAVI]
Alright, go!
Yeah, I’m a streetlight, chillin’ in the heat
I illuminate the stories of the people in the street
Some have happy endings, some are bittersweet
But I know them all and that’s what makes my life complete
[NINA]
We’re home
[USNAVI]
And if not me, who keeps our legacies?
Who’s gonna keep the coffee sweet with secret recipes?
Abuela, rest in peace, you live in my memories
But Sonny’s gotta eat, this corner is my destiny
[SONNY/NINA/CARLA/DANIELA]
We’re home
[USNAVI]
Brings out the best in me, we pass a test and we
Keep pressin’ and yes indeed, you know I’ll never leave
If you close your eyes, that hydrant is a beach
That siren is a breeze, that fire escape’s a leaf on a palm tree!
[COMPANY]
We’re home
[USNAVI]
Abuela, I’m sorry
But I ain’t goin’ back because I’m telling your story
And I can say goodbye to you smilin’, I found my island
I been on it this whole time
I’m home!
[SONNY/NINA/CAMILA/OTHERS, VANESSA/GRAFFITI PETE/OTHERS]
We’re home
The hydrants are open
Cool breezes blow
[USNAVI]
It’s a wonderful life that I’ve known
Merry Christmas, you ol’ Building and Loan!
I’m home
[SONNY/NINA/CAMILA/OTHERS, VANESSA/GRAFFITI PETE/OTHERS]
We’re home
The hydrants are open
Cool breezes blow
[USNAVI]
Abuela, that ain’t a stoop, that’s your throne
Long after ya birds have all flown
[USNAVI, COMPANY]
I’m home (We're home)
Where the coffee’s non-stop
And I drop this hip-hop
In my mom and pop shop, I’m home (We're home)
Where people come, people go
Let me show all of these people what I know
There’s no place like home (We're home)
And let me set the record straight
I’m steppin’ to Vanessa, I’m gettin’ a second date
I’m home! (We're home)
Where it’s a hundred in the shade
But with patience and faith
We remain unafraid, I’m home (Home)
You hear that music in the air?
Take the train to the top of the world
And I’m there
I’m home (Home)
Finale was written by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Finale was produced by Kurt Deutsch & Joel Moss & Andres Levin & Bill Sherman & Alex Lacamoire & Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Doreen Montalvo, Lin-Manuel Miranda & “In the Heights” Original Broadway Company released Finale on Tue Jun 03 2008.