When You’re Home - Lin-Manuel Miranda

[00:11.38]I used to think we lived at the top of the world
[00:17.20]When the world was just a subway map
[00:21.17]And the one-slash-nine
[00:24.40]Climbed a dotted line to my place
[00:30.50]There’s no nine train now
[00:32.89]Right
[00:34.59]I used to think the Bronx was a place in the sky
[00:41.47]When the world was just a subway map
[00:45.31]And my thoughts took shape
[00:48.44]On that fire escape…
[00:52.11]Can you remind me of what it was like
[00:59.29]At the top of the world?
[01:05.63]Come with me
[01:10.75]We begin July
[01:12.35]With a stop at my corner fire hydrant
[01:15.70]You would open it every summer!
[01:19.64]I would bust it with a wrench
[01:21.80]Till my face got drenched
[01:24.22]Till I heard the sirens
[01:25.63]Then I ran like hell!
[01:26.71]You ran like hell!
[01:27.43]Yeah, I ran like hell!
[01:28.55]I remember well!
[01:29.68]To your father’s dispatch window
[01:31.56]“Hey, let me in, yo!
[01:32.77]They’re coming to get me!”
[01:34.16]You were always in constant trouble—
[01:38.75]Then your dad would act all snide, but he’d let me hide
[01:42.90]You’d be there inside—
[01:43.35]Life was easier then
[01:45.32]Nina, everything is easier
[01:47.98]When you’re home…
[01:50.48]The street’s a little kinder when you’re home
[01:55.64]Can’t you see
[01:57.16]That the day seems clearer
[02:00.27]Now that you are here or
[02:02.30]Is it me?
[02:04.95]Maybe it’s just me…
[02:07.50]We gotta go I wanna show you all I know
[02:09.94]The sun is setting and the light is getting low
[02:11.80]Are we going to Castle Garden?
[02:16.14]Maybe, maybe not, but way to take a shot, when the day is hot
[02:19.43]I got a perfect shady spot
[02:20.49]A little ways away that oughta
[02:21.43]Cool us down
[02:22.78]Cool us down—
[02:23.94]Welcome back to town...
[02:25.86]Now, back in high school when it darkened
[02:28.75]You’d hang out in Bennett Park and
[02:30.69]Usnavi would bring his radio…
[02:35.20]As I walked home from Senior Studies
[02:37.75]I’d see you rapping with your buddies
[02:40.23]With the volume high
[02:41.48]I walked on by
[02:42.62]You walked on by—
[02:47.84]No pare! Sigue, sigue!
[02:49.94]No pare! Sigue, sigue!
[02:52.50]No pare! Sigue, sigue!
[02:54.23]No pare! Sigue, sigue!
[02:56.57]No pare! Sigue, sigue!
[02:58.81]No pare! Sigue, sigue!
[03:01.11]No pare! Sigue, sigue!
[03:03.49]No pare sigue!
[03:05.11]When you’re home
[03:07.99]Oh, the summer nights are cooler
[03:09.83]When you’re home!
[03:11.99]Now that you’re here with me…
[03:14.55]And that song you are
[03:16.50]hearing is the
[03:17.34]Neighborhood just
[03:18.42]cheering you along—
[03:20.46]Don’t say that
[03:21.63]What’s wrong?
[03:22.64]Don’t say that!
[03:24.33]When I was younger, I’d imagine what would happen
[03:28.39]If my parents had stayed in Puerto Rico
[03:33.25]Who would I be if I had never seen Manhattan
[03:37.80]If I lived in Puerto Rico with my people
[03:42.14]My people!
[03:43.44]I feel like all my life, I’ve tried to find the answer
[03:47.22]Working harder, learning Spanish, learning all I can
[03:52.27]I thought I might find the answer out at Stanford
[03:57.70]But I’d stare out at the sea
[04:00.10]Thinking, where’m I supposed to be?
[04:03.00]So please don’t say you’re proud of me, when I’ve lost my way
[04:13.98]Then can I say:
[04:16.84]I couldn’t get my mind off you all day
[04:21.92]Now listen to me!
[04:23.67]That may be how you perceive it
[04:26.69]But Nina please believe
[04:29.40]That when you find your way again
[04:33.86]You’re gonna change the world and then
[04:37.27]We’re all gonna brag and say we knew her when...
[04:46.13]This was your home
[04:47.61]I’m home—
[04:48.48]Welcome home—
[04:50.63]When you’re here with me—
[04:53.20]Welcome home—
[04:54.36]I used to think that we lived at the top of the world!
[04:59.22]Welcome home—
[05:00.26]I’m home—
[05:01.25]You’re finally home
[05:03.10]You’re home!
[05:09.52]I’m home!