Phillipa Soo
That Would Be Enough
[Eliza:]
Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now! Look around, look around...
[Hamilton:]
How long have you known?
[Eliza:]
A month or so...
[Hamilton:]
Eliza, you should’ve told me!
[Eliza:]
I wrote to the general a month ago-
[Hamilton:]
No!
[Eliza:]
-I begged him to send you home!
[Hamilton:]
You should have told me...
[Eliza:]
I’m not sorry!
I knew that you
Would fight until [Hamilton:]
The war was won- The war’s not done!
But you deserve a chance to meet your son!
Look around, look around at how lucky we
Are to be alive right now!
[Hamilton:]
Will you relish being a poor man’s wife unable to provide for your life?
[Eliza:]
I relish being your wife! Look around, look around…
Look at where you are, look at where you started!
The fact that you’re alive is a miracle
Just stay alive, that would be enough!
And if this child shares a fraction of your smile
Or a fragment of your mind:
Look out world!
That would be enough!
I don’t pretend to know the challenges you’re facing
Or the worlds you keep erasing and creating in your mind...
But I’m not afraid
I know who I married!
Just so long as you come home at the end of the day
That would be enough!
We don’t need a legacy!
We don’t mean money!
If I could grant you peace of mind
If you could let me inside your heart!
Oh, let me be a part of the narrative
Of the story they will write someday!
Let this moment be the first chapter...
Where you decide to stay!
And I could be enough!
And we could be enough!
That would be enough!