Lyrics In The Heights - 22. Finale

BOLERO SINGER
No te vayas...
Si me dejas...
Si te alejas de mi...
Seguir?s en mis recuerdos para siempre...
Para siempre...
Para siempre...
Para siempre...
Para siempre...
(continues under next rap)

USNAVI
Lights out on Washington Heights
And now the crack of dawn
The blackout goes on and on and on...
Sonny's out back, sortin' the trash
As I think about the past,
With a sack full of cash
Abuela really wanted me up on a beach
With margaritas in my reach,
And soon that's how it's gonna be...
Imagine me, leaving today
On a seven-forty-seven
Boardin' JFK...

CARLA
The hydrants are open
Cool breezes blow

CARLA/DANIELA
The hydrants are open
Cool breezes blow

DANIELA/CARLA
The hydrants are open

KEVIN
Good morning

PIRAGUA GUY
Piragua, piragua

DANIELA/CARLA
Cool breezes blow

PIRAGUA GUY
New block of ice, piragua
So sweet and nice, piragua
Piragua, piragua

DANIELA/CARLA
The hydrants are open
Cool breezes blow

KEVIN
Good morning

PIRAGUA GUY
Piragua, piragua
New block of ice, piragua
So sweet and nice, piragua
Piragua, piragua

CAMILA
Siempre...
Seguiras en mis recuerdos
Para siempre...

DANIELA/CARLA
The hydrants are open
Cool breezes blow

KEVIN
Good morning

PIRAGUA GUY
Piragua, piragua
New block of ice, piragua
So sweet and nice, piragua
Piragua, piragua

CAMILA
Siempre...
Seguiras en mis recuerdos
Para siempre...

VANESSA
I'll be downtown
It won't be long now...

USNAVI
There's a breeze off the Hudson
And just when you think you're sick of living here
The memory floods in
The morning light, off the fire escapes
The nights in Bennett Park, blasting big pun tapes
I'm-a miss this place, to tell you the truth
Kevin, dispensin' wisdom from his dispatch booth
And at dawn, Vanessa at the salon
We gotta move on
And who's gonna notice we're gone?
When our job's done
As the evening winds down to a crawl, son
Can I ease my mind
When we're all done
When we've resigned
In the long run
What do we leave behind?
Most of all, I'll miss Abuela's whispers
Doin' the lotto Pick Six every Christmas
In five years, when this whole city's rich folks and hipsters
Who's gonna miss this raggedy little business?

GRAFFITI PETE
What it do? Haha, great sunlight this morning.

SONNY
Yo cuz. We fixed the grate.

USNAVI
(to SONNY) What did I tell you about this punk?

SONNY
You have to commission an artist while his rate is still good!

GRAFFITI PETE
The first work in my new series.

(GRAFFITI PETE rolls down the gate.
There is a huge graffiti mural of ABUELA CLAUDIA that says PACIENCIA Y FE. Silence.)

GRAFFITI PETE
He hates it.

SONNY
Shh. He's forming an artistic opinion.

USNAVI
You did this last night?

GRAFFITI PETE
Yeah.

USNAVI
There goes my flight

SONNY
What?

USNAVI
Graffiti Pete, you're gonna need some new cans
Here's some money, finish up, there's been a slight change of plans

GRAFFITI PETE
Nice!

USNAVI
Listen up guys, you got a job, I'm not playin'
You gotta go now, tell the whole block I'm stayin'!
Y'all go ahead, tell everyone we know!
Sonny...

(USNAVI starts to say something, but gets choked up, motions to his own heart.)

USNAVI
Alright, go!
Yeah, I'm a streetlight, chillin' in the heat!
I illuminate the stories of the people in the street
Some have happy endings, some are bittersweet
But I know them all and that's what makes my life complete

NINA
We're home-

USNAVI
And if not me, who keeps our legacies?
Who's gonna keep the coffee sweet with secret