The Hamilton lyrics, explained by Lin-Manuel Miranda himself - Polygon

The arrival of the filmed version of Hamilton on Disney Plus opened the musical up to a vast new audience.

Over the weekend, though, the recorded version debuted to more than 50 million subscribers on Disney Plus — and that’s not even counting the new members who signed up for the service just to find out what all the Hamilton fuss is about.

Fortunately, there’s a terrific resource for “Hamilton lyrics, explained”: the extensive Hamilton notes archive at Genius.com, particularly the notes from writer, creator, and star Lin-Manuel Miranda himself.

Genius solved for this by highlighting his contributions in green — it’s easy to look through any given Hamilton song and either read all the notes, or just find out what Miranda had to say about it.

Or you can just look through his own commentary archive and see all his Hamilton notes, not in song order, but isolated from anyone else’s observations.

Some of the better finds in the mix include this note on a section of “Hurricane,” the song where protagonist Alexander Hamilton explains his own backstory in the West Indies.

Miranda lays out where both Hamilton and Hamilton originally came from:.

song “The Ten Crack Commandments,” and explains why he wrote the song in the first place:.

But the Genius version of the commentary has the advantage of being highly targeted, so newcomers to the musical can find out what one given song or line of their choice is referencing, or can just browse through, looking for the gems and the surprises in the explanations

It’s a rich resource, and it’s enough to spark yet another viewing of Hamilton after all the reading is done, just to see how it plays with this much extra knowledge in tow

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