The Film When It Happens

BURR: Ah, Mister Secretary
 HAMILTON: Mister Burr, sir
 BURR: Did ya hear the news about good old General Mercer?
 HAMILTON: No
 BURR: You know Clermont Street?
 HAMILTON: Yeah
 BURR: They renamed it after him. The Mercer legacy is secure
 HAMILTON: Sure
 BURR: And all he had to do was die
 HAMILTON: That's a lot less work
 BURR: We oughta give it a try
 HAMILTON: Ha
 BURR: Now how're you gonna get your debt plan through?
 HAMILTON: I guess I'm gonna fin'ly have to listen to you
 BURR: Really?
 HAMILTON: "Talk less. Smile more."
 BURR: Ha
 HAMILTON: Do whatever it takes to get my plan on the Congress floor
 BURR: Now, Madison and Jefferson are merciless.
 HAMILTON: Well, hate the sin, love the sinner
 MADISON: Hamilton!
 HAMILTON: I'm sorry Burr, I've gotta go
 BURR: But—
 HAMILTON: Decisions are happening over dinner
 BURR: Two Virginians and an immigrant walk into a room
 BURR AND ENSEMBLE: Diametric'ly opposed, foes
 BURR: They emerge with a compromise, having opened doors that were
 BURR AND ENSEMBLE: Previously closed
 ENSEMBLE: Bros
 BURR: The immigrant emerges with unprecedented financial power
 A system he can shape however he wants
 The Virginians emerge with the nation's capital
 And here's the pièce de résistance
 BURR: No one else was in
 The room where it happened
 The room where it happened
 The room where it happened
 No one else was in
 The room where it happened
 The room where it happened
 The room where it happened
 No one really knows how the game is played
 The art of the trade
 How the sausage gets made
 We just assume that it happens
 But no one else is in
 The room where it happens.
 BURR AND COMPANY: Thomas claims
 JEFFERSON: Alexander was on Washington's doorstep one day
 In distress 'n disarray
 BURR AND COMPANY: Thomas claims
 JEFFERSON: Alexander said
 HAMILTON: I've nowhere else to turn!
 JEFFERSON: And basic'ly begged me to join the fray
 BURR AND COMPANY: Thomas claims
 JEFFERSON: I approached Madison and said
 "I know you hate 'im, but let's hear what he has to say."
 BURR AND COMPANY: Thomas claims
 JEFFERSON: Well, I arranged the meeting
 I arranged the menu, the venue, the seating
 BURR: But!
 No one else was in
 BURR AND COMPANY: The room where it happened
 The room where it happened
 The room where it happened
 BURR: No one else was in
 BURR AND COMPANY: The room where it happened
 The room where it happened
 The room where it happened
 BURR: No one really knows how the
 Parties get to yesssss
 The pieces that are sacrificed in
 Ev'ry game of chesssss
 We just assume that it happens
 But no one else is in
 The room where it happens.
 BURR AND COMPANY: Meanwhile
 BURR: Madison is grappling with the fact
 that not ev'ry issue can be settled by committee
 COMPANY: Meanwhile
 BURR: Congress is fighting over where to put the capital—
 COMPANY: Hhh!
 BURR: It isn't pretty
 Then Jefferson approaches with a dinner and invite
 And Madison responds with Virginian insight:
 MADISON: Maybe we can solve one problem with another
 and win a victory for the Southerners, in other words
 JEFFERSON: Oh-ho!
 MADISON: A quid pro quo
 JEFFERSON: I suppose
 MADISON: Wouldn't you like to work a little closer to home?
 JEFFERSON: Actually, I would
 MADISON: Well, I propose the Potomac
 JEFFERSON: And you'll provide him his votes?
 MADISON: Well, we'll see how it goes
 JEFFERSON: Let's go
 BURR: No!
 COMPANY: one else was in
 The room where it happened
 BURR AND COMPANY: The room where it happened
 The room where it happened
 No one else was in
 The room where it happened
 The room where it happened
 The room where it happened
 BURR: My God!
 BURR AND COMPANY: In God we trust
 But we'll never really know what got discussed
 Click-boom then it happened
 BURR: And no one else was in the room where it happened
 COMPANY: Alexander Hamilton!
 BURR: What did they say to you to get you
 to sell New York City down the river?
 COMPANY: Alexander Hamilton!
 BURR: Did Washington know about the dinner?
 Was there Presidential pressure to deliver?
 COMPANY: Alexander Hamilton!
 BURR: Or did you know, even then, it doesn't matter
 Where you put the U.S. Capital?
 HAMILTON: Cuz we'll have the banks
 We're in the same spot
 BURR: You got more than you gave
 HAMILTON: And I wanted what I got
 When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game
 But you don't get a win unless you play in the game
 Oh, you get love for it. You get hate for it
 You get nothing if you...
 HAMILTON AND COMPANY: Wait for it, wait for it, wait!
 HAMILTON: God help and forgive me
 I wanna build
 Something that's gonna
 Outlive me
 HAMILTON/JEFFERSON/MADISON/WASHINGTON: What do you want, Burr?
 What do you want, Burr?
 If you stand for nothing
 Burr, then what do you fall for?
 BURR: I wanna be in
 The room where it happens
 The room where it happens
 I wanna be in
 The room where it happens
 The room where it happens
 BURR AND COMPANY: I wanna be in the room where it happens
 The room where it happens
 The room where it happens
 I wanna be in the room where it happens
 The room where it happens
 The room where it happens
 I wanna be in the room where it happens
 The room where it happens
 The room where it happens
 I wanna be in the room where it happens
 The room where it happens
 The room where it happens
 COMPANY: The art of the compromise—
 BURR: Hold your nose and close your eyes
 COMPANY: We want our leaders to save the day—
 BURR: But we don't get a say in what they trade away
 COMPANY: We dream of a brand new start—
 BURR: But we dream in the dark for the most part
 BURR AND COMPANY: Dark as a tomb where it happens
 BURR AND COMPANY: I've got to be in the room where it happens
 I've got to be... The room where it happens
 I've got to be... The room where it happens
 Oh, I've got to be in the room where it happens
 I've got to be, I've gotta be, I wanna be...
 In the room!
 Where it happens!
 Click-boom!