Christopher Jackson - In The Heights lyrics

[USNAVI] Hey where y'all going? ...Damn I'm sitting on this stoop like a Nincompoop Strutting like another clucking rooster in the chicken coop Whistling to woman and wishing they'd want me back Sizzling Dominicans give me a heart attack Hollaback I am Usnavi and you've Prob'ly never heard my name Reports of my fame are greatly exaggerated Exacerbated by the fact that my syntax Is highly complicated cuz I emigrated From the single greatest little place in the Caribbean Dominican Republic We love it! Now back to the subject It don't matter if you white black Asian or latin I'm reporting to you live from the top of Manhattan At my bodega on the corner of 184th and Broadway It's been a long day learning things the hard way My lips are salty from sweating to the heat But I'm getting you on your feet bop your head to the beat Now, some of y'all are thinkin "Woah I'm up sh**'s creek I've never been north of Ninety-Sixth Street” But tonight You'll hear a story that is mad compelling son But first you gotta make like my man Duke Ellington Cuz you must take the 'A' Train Even farther than Harlem to northern Manhattan and maintain While I explain the drama from the last few nights Relax, you're tight You're in Washington Heights [NINA] Sitting on the bench to north train I am going insane Waiting in pain for it to take me home Finally we leave the station I am so impatient To get the hell out of New Haven and get some time alone And as I leave all I see are the homeless standing by As the rich kids avert their eyes And get their meaningless degrees I'm sitting next to businessmen who are Cheating on their wives They've been commuting all their lives Filling hotel vacancies But all I wanna do is go home Where everything's alright Where in a way you're never alone Cuz everyone's squeezed together tight [COMPANY] En Washington Heights En Washington Heights [NINA] Nothing's changed it's all the same Everybody knows my name [ENSEMBLE] En Washington Heights [NINA] I've been gone all year but everyone I love is still here [ENSEMBLE] En Washington Heights [NINA] No more quiet nights alone Studying on my own [COMPANY] En Washington Heights [NINA] Lai le lo lai lo le lo lai! (?) Lai le lo lai [LINCOLN] Welcome home, everyone's happy to see you again [ALMA/KEVIN/CAMILLA] My, how you've grown [VANESSA/LINCOLN] Welcome home we haven't seen you since Jesus knows when [LINCOLN] You're not alone [USNAVI] And I've gotta go downtown I have everything I need All the neighborhood is dancing and it's following my lead [VANESSA] Everybody knows your business Everybody's in your face What I wouldn't give to live some other place [VOICE] En Washington Heights [CAMILLA] Kevin it's almost seven your daughter gets in at half past eight! [VOICE] En Washington Heights! [KEVIN] Cami turn off the oven give me some Love and she's always late [VOICE] En Washington Heights! [CAMILLA] (?) [USNAVI] Everybody knows your money goes when Usnavi throws the Dominos [LINCOLN] Well I'm home, I'm 24 and I still live at home… I'm not a kid anymore [BENNY] I'm home, I live for these nights in my Washington Heights out on the dance floor [ALMA] [VANESSA] [LINCOLN] No te vayas (?) (?) Oh I wanna go (?) Benny baby call me out tonight (?) Oh I wanna I'm been biding my time writing this song getting it right (?) escape this life (?) Oh So I know it's time to go I've got to show everyone what I'm about (?) I wanna go out No doubt and shout from the rooftops of Benny baby call me tonight my home, I'm home [NINA] And I've been gone so many years Always studying alone I've been searching for a brand new life that isn't carved in stone Maybe everyone is different Maybe everything has changed Maybe living on my own I've grown estranged [VOICE] It's Washington Heights! [NINA] But I remember those summer nights [VANESSA] Those warm embraces [VOICE] It's Washington Heights! [NINA] [VANESSA] [VOICES] Fire hydrants spraying water Across our Sweaty shiny faces Sweaty shiny faces It's Washington Heights! the names and places, the names and places, remaining chases of you remaining chases of you As the subway races home! As the subway races home! It's Washington Heights! [VOICES] It's Washington Heights! [NINA] Nobody tell me you can't go home again [ENSEMBLE] It's Washington Heights! [NINA] Nobody tell me you can't feel just as Alive as you did back then [ENSEMBLE] It's Washington Heights! [NINA] Somebody welcome me home and hold me tight [ENSEMBLE] It's Washington Heights! [NINA] There's only one place I know to take Away these lonely nights [COMPANY] In Washington Heights!