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Burn from Hamilton (by Lin-Manuel Miranda) [Intro]
   Bm            F#            Bm
e|-----2-3-2---|-----2-3-2---|-----2-3-2---|-3-2---3-2---|
B|---3-------3-|---2-------2-|---3-------3-|-----3-----3-|
G|-4-----------|-3-----------|-4-----------|-------------| x2
D|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
A|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
[Verse] (ELIZA)
  Bm                      F#
I saved every letter you wrote me

G                   D
  From the moment I read them

  Em            Bm
I knew you were mine

                   F#
You said you were mine

                   G     D  D/C#
I thought you were mine

Bm                    F#
   Do you know what Angelica said

         G                     D       Em
When we saw your first letter arrive?
She said
Bm               F# 
“Be careful with that one, love

        G                      D        
He will do what it takes to survive.”
[Pre-Chorus]
D/C#         Bm               F#          
You and your words flooded my senses

      G                    D
Your sentences left me defenseless

Em             Bm             F#
You built me palaces out of paragraphs

             G        D  D/C#
You built cathedrals

         Bm                     F#
I’m re-reading the letters you wrote me

      G                          D
I’m searching and scanning for answers

    Em   Bm 
In every line

                  F#
For some kind of sign

                   G
And when you were mine
The world seemed to [Chorus]
D    Bm  F#m  F#m/E  F#m/D  Gmaj7
Burn

D    Bm  F#m  F#m/E  F#m/D  Gmaj7
Burn
[Verse]
     Bm                        F#
You published the letters she wrote you

    G                             D
You told the whole world how you brought

           Em      Bm
This girl into our bed

                 F#                         G    D  Em7
In clearing your name, you have ruined our lives

Bm                 F#           G
Do you know what Angelica said

                          D     Em
When she read what you’d done?

         Bm
She said

                       F#
“You have married an Icarus

        G                      D 
He has flown too close to the sun.”
[Pre-Chorus]
C#dim        Bm                        F#
You and your words, obsessed with your legacy...

       G                    D
Your sentences border on senseless

Em           Bm                F#
And you are paranoid in every paragraph

            G
How they perceive you
You, you, you…
     Bm                      F#
I’m erasing myself from the narrative

     G                  D         Em
Let future historians wonder how Eliza

Bm                        F#
Reacted when you broke her heart

G
You have torn it all apart
I am watching it [Chorus]
D/A  Bm  F#m  F#m/E  F#m/D  Gmaj7
Burn

            D/A  Bm  F#m  F#m/E  F#m/D  Gmaj7
Watching it burn
[Bridge]
                 A             D
The world has no right to my heart

                  F#m
The world has no place in our bed

      Bm                      G
They don’t get to know what I said

     A             D
I’m burning the memories

             F#m                    Bm
Burning the letters that might have redeemed you

      G       A           D
You forfeit all rights to my heart

                 F#m
You forfeit the place in our bed

        Bm                   G
You'll sleep in your office instead

      A         D
With only the memories

             F#m      D/F#  D/E  D G
Of when you were mine
[Outro]
                Bm  F#  G  D Em  Bm9 
I hope that you   burn