Say No to This lyrics

"Hamilton" soundtrack

Say No to This Song Lyrics

[BURR]

There’s nothing like summer in the city

Someone under stress meets someone looking pretty

There’s trouble in the air, you can smell it

And Alexander’s by himself. I’ll let him tell it

[HAMILTON]

I hadn’t slept in a week

I was weak, I was awake

You never seen a bastard orphan

More in need of a break

Longing for Angelica

Missing my wife

That’s when Miss Maria Reynolds walked into my life, she said:

[MARIA]

I know you are a man of honor

I’m so sorry to bother you at home

But I don’t know where to go, and I came here all alone…

[HAMILTON]

She said:

[MARIA]

My husband’s doin’ me wrong

Beatin’ me, cheatin’ me, mistreatin’ me...

Suddenly he’s up and gone

I don’t have the means to go on

[HAMILTON]

So I offered her a loan, I offered to walk her home, she said

[MARIA]

You’re too kind, sir

[HAMILTON]

I gave her thirty bucks that I had socked away

She lived a block away, she said:

[MARIA]

This one’s mine, sir

[HAMILTON]

Then I said, “well, I should head back home,”

She turned red, she led me to her bed

Let her legs spread and said:

[MARIA]

Stay?

[HAMILTON]

Hey…

[MARIA]

Hey…

[HAMILTON]

That’s when I began to pray:

Lord, show me how to

Say no to this

I don’t know how to

Say no to this

But my God, she looks so helpless

And her body’s saying, “hell, yes”

[MARIA]

Whoa...

[HAMILTON]

Nooo, show me how to

[HAMILTON/ENSEMBLE]

Say no to this

[HAMILTON]

I don’t know how to

[HAMILTON/ENSEMBLE]

Say no to this

[HAMILTON]

In my mind, I’m tryin’ to go

[ENSEMBLE]

Go! Go! Go!

[HAMILTON]

Then her mouth is on mine, and I don’t say…

[ENSEMBLE]

No! No!

Say no to this!

No! No!

Say no to this!

No! No!

Say no to this!

No! No!

Say no to this!

[HAMILTON]

I wish I could say that was the last time

I said that last time. It became a pastime

A month into this endeavor I received a letter

From a Mr. James Reynolds, even better, it said:

[JAMES]

Dear Sir, I hope this letter finds you in good health

And in a prosperous enough position to put wealth

In the pockets of people like me: down on their luck

You see, that was my wife who you decided to

[HAMILTON]

Fuuuu—

[JAMES]

Uh-oh! You made the wrong sucker a cuckold

So time to pay the piper for the pants you unbuckled

And hey, you can keep seein’ my whore wife

If the price is right: if not I’m telling your wife

[HAMILTON]

I hid the letter and I raced to her place

Screamed “How could you?!” in her face

She said:

[MARIA]

No, sir!

[HAMILTON]

Half dressed, apologetic. A mess, she looked

Pathetic, she cried:

[MARIA]

Please don’t go, sir!

[HAMILTON]

So was your whole story a setup?

[MARIA]

I don’t know about any letter!

[HAMILTON]

Stop crying Goddamnit, get up!

[MARIA]

I didn’t know any better

[HAMILTON]

I am ruined...

[MARIA]

Please don’t leave me with him helpless

Just give him what he wants and you can have me

Whatever you want,

[HAMILTON]

I am helpless—how could I do this?

I don’t want you

[MARIA]

If you pay

You can stay

Tonight

Helpless

Whoa!

How can you

Say no to this?

[HAMILTON]

Yes

Yes. [HAMILTON]

I don’t…

Lord, show me how to

Say no to this

I don’t know how to

Say no to this

Cuz the situation’s helpless

And her body’s screaming, “Hell, yes”

No, show me how to

Say no to this

How can I

Say no to this?

There is nowhere I can go

When her body’s on mine I do not say…

[MARIA]

Yes!

[ENSEMBLE]

Say no to this!

Go! Go! Go!

No!

[ENSEMBLE]

Say no to this!

No!

Say no to this!

No!

Say no to this!

No!

Say no to this!

[HAMILTON]

Say no to this…

I don’t say no to this

There is nowhere I can go.

[MARIA]

Don’t say no to this

[ENSEMBLE]

Go go go...

[JAMES]

So?

[HAMILTON]

Nobody needs to know

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