Top Ten Hamilton Songs That Make You Cry
The 'Stay Alive (reprise)' is really sad. Philip Hamilton says his goodbyes to his family while he dies from a fatal shot from George Eaker. I really felt like crying while Eliza counted in French when I first heard it; but being the heartless person I am, I didn't. But 'It's Quiet Uptown' totally killed me. I literally BAWLED when Eliza said, "It's quiet uptown." and then the company is saying "Forgiveness. Can you imagine? " Then 'Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story' comes and the orphanage is just so beautiful!
Yeah, I'm listening to this song right now. Hamilton's daily routine seems so... DEPRESSING. With all the political trouble going on on top of Philip's death, it just seems so devastating. And how Eliza forgives him... it's just... aggghh! D:
I definitely vote this song as one of the saddest ones in the musical.
I honestly cried the first time I listened to this. The raw emotions in this song combined with the sad aftermath of Phillip's death makes this so real and just makes you appreciate everyone around you so much more. LONG LIVE PHILLIP
This song is filled with so much emotion and narrative that it is almost impossible to keep myself from swelling up with tears. There are four parts of this song that makes it one of the most saddest songs in the Broadway hit, Hamilton.
1. Hamilton isn't even in this song. The main character in this musical has left a ghostly image in this song after *spoiler* being killed by Burr, being the main focus of the song, but not there himself.
2. The audience who listens to this song is in total agreement that Eliza deserves more time, and Hamilton did as well.
3. Eliza steals the ending. How she sings the lyrics, and the breathless/breath heavy emotion put into it, the narrative she tells in her final moments should be pulling at ones heartstrings.
4. This is an epilogue. We will never get to see these characters again without the fact of having to go through this same sad downfall of Alexander Hamilton.
The thing that really made me feel sad during this song is the raw emotion when Eliza comes in and screams "Is he going to survive this? Who did this? Alexander did you know?! " her voice had such raw emotion and power that you can't help but to feel the fear she has. It also saddens me when I hear the soft beating that stops when Philip dies. If you have lost someone in your past, you would know how they feel, the sadness and bit of chaos. It is also sad to know that Philip was only 19 years old when he died. In a way, you could say Hamilton kind of foreshadowed this by saying "Only 19 but my mind is older" in My Shot, though I could be wrong.
When I first listened to the soundtrack, I knew what was going to happen because someone spoiled it for me. Philip actually ended up being my favorite character because I could REALLY relate to him. But when I went to Hamilton, to actually SEE Alexander and Eliza with their dying son made me cry so much. I still hadn't recovered by the end of the musical. Now I can't listen to the song without crying like a baby.
Burn is an amazing song that tells how Eliza really feels. Phillipa so captured this feeling so strongly, it feels like you're Elizabeth Schuyler, your husband has cheated on you after such a strong relationship and publishes it to the world. Her notes reach surprising notes, and she is such a great singer. She pours the emotions of Eliza and with the great notes so reaches, I can't understand how, at my time, Burn is #6. If you can't understand why I'm so emotional, listen to the lyrics. Listen to her voice and story through a new lens...
Elizabeth Schuyler and Alex Hamilton marry, young and in love. They have a child and Eliza begs her husband to stay from the war, which he does for a while. Later Eliza and her older sister plead for him to take a break and go on vacation. He declines and they go anyways, with Eliza's son. Hamilton is so stressed that he has an affair with a woman that is a rotation that they continue for months. Finally, to protect his legacy, Hamilton writes about it and Eliza finds out. She is devastated. In the end, however, she forgives him, becoming the loving wife she was before.
I have a really good friend named Charlotte. She has an older cousin named Britnay, who had twins, a boy, and a girl, about a month after Hamilton debut. Her cousin's husband's name is James. His father die of cancer just before James turned five. Charlotte and I were singing along to Hamilton songs at a sleepover. Charlotte lives in an apartment building. Britnay and James live next door. When they were both visiting her parents when Charlotte and I had a sleepover. Britnay and James heard us listening to 'Dear Theodosia'. When their twins were born, Charlotte told me that they named the twins Theodosia, and Phillip. We were both surprised at this. Like I said earlier James' father died of cancer just before he turned five. So, just like Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, his father was never there for James. Charlotte told me that James told her that he was very touched by the song, He even sometimes sings 'Dear Theodosia' to Phillip and Theodosia. Charlotte and I both agreed that was the sweetest thing ever.
Listening to Hamilton's last part in the play is just heartbreaking. Coupled with Burr's immediate regret (along with the melancholy version which begins "Aaron Burr, Sir"), the emotions are absolutely raw and incredible... "I strike him right between the ribs... I walk towards him, but I am ushered away." (beautiful chorus comes in during these parts) "I get a drink." And of course, "Now I'm the villain in your history... I was too young and blind to see. I should've known, I should've known the world was wide enough for both Hamilton and me."
"The world was wide enough for both Hamilton and me."
This perfectly sets up the next song, "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story," which would definitely not have as much power without the precursor.
This is the only song I want to cry because of. I barely cry, so that means something. The thing that makes me sad is they make it so its hard to hate him. And the he is killed. When 1.85 ticks by I feel like crying. Though I almost cry this is my favorite song. WHY BURR JUST WHY!? It's a job man no need shoot the guy over it. (I get mad instead of crying.)
Yes you are the villain. When I started listening to this my sister told me Burr kills Alexander. I thought she lied. Nope.
The writing is beautiful but depressing.
I find this one sad because Philip is so happy and confident and then his opponent turns at seven.
This one makes me really sad and makes me want to cry in French class. It gives me feels.
Very musically effective.
This one only makes me cry because I played Aaron Burr in a miniature production my friends and I put on, and so I had to come to terms with the fact that I was the damn fool that shot Hamilton.
Well, it does spoil the story with the whole "I'm the damn fool that shot him" thing...still, feels nonetheless
This song it's really sad...
In my opinion, Satisfied is by far the most moving song of the entire production. Sure one would assume that the songs dealing with death and loneliness elsewhere in the story might be "sadder," set to more melancholic arrangements; but this one... Nothing is worse than an opportunity missed, than love lost. Angelica is the only real match to Hamilton, and she sacrifices it all. For the rest of her life she would remember it... and that he was right in the end; she wasn't ever satisfied. Maybe she would've been if she had only chosen to take a chance. I take solace in the fact that their love may not have died just because of Hamilton's marriage to Eliza.
The song really builds and it's really cool because you get to hear Angelica's side of the story and you can feel how much she really loves her sister (Eliza).
This song is so sad. Why is it #9? It is all about how Angelica sacrificed her love of Hamilton so that her sister Eliza could have a chance to Marty him.
The rap was so emotional
So sad and emotional..
Why is this so low? Even though I find songs like Stay Alive (reprise) and It's Quiet Uptown when talking about the saddest songs, this needs to be in the top 5, really. It makes you feel sorry for Burr, who, as the play continues, you stop feeling sorry for. But this song and Dear Theodosia make you love Burr, excluding the fact he's played by Leslie, who makes the character amazingly likable alone.
Every time I listen to it I just feel bad for burr because everything that he wants to accomplish, hamilton gets there and shuts him down, then in the previous song he gets reminded that he can't get theodosia >.<
This song makes me cry so much, especially the line "I am the one thing in life I can control", I just feel that too much, doing everything you can and its just never good enough.
Honestly, I know that this song isn't exactly the "bawl your eyes out" type like "It's Quiet Uptown" or "Stay Alive (Reprise)", but this one is definitely emotional. In "Alexander Hamilton", we learn about his past, and can infer about his personality, but it's never as personal, as it's told by other people. It becomes a whole lot more emotional when it's the character singing about his own past (the little voice crack when he's talking about his moms death always gets me), and it's also the moment when he misguidedly ruins his own life. Honestly, I could go on for longer, but I'll leave it at this: the music, lyrics, and place in the story combine to be a pretty emotional song.
This song for me is so utterly heartbreaking because it is really the first time Alexander shares with us his past in the Carribean that he has fought so hard to bury so deeply down no one can see it until now in his moment of weakness and dread of what he is sure to come after the release of the Reynolds Pamphlet. The subjects that he touches on this song are so sad and you can just imagine how traumatizing this would be for anyone-much less a child. The little voice crack that you hear when Hamilton is singing about his dead mother and trying not to cry breaks me every. Single. Time.
Dear Theodosia makes me cry SO HARD. Seeing Burr lose his cool and have an emotional mess is not only touching, but a moment or realization for the listener. Not to mention after listening to Wait For It you know he truly cared about his wife, leaving us sitting in a puddle after we play the song.
This should replace Blow Us All Away. As soon as Burr cried, I was gone. I never cried harder listening to Hamilton. It just reminds me more than other other song, including Stay Alive (Reprise), that you will have to endure a loved one's death and just. Man, Lin, why?
This song is Aaron Burr telling his daughter about the death of her mother. It is extremely heartbreaking, and can be found on Youtube.
I started crying when Laurens said the last "tomorrow there'll be more of us..." just thinking about it brings tears to my eyes...
It may not be considered a song, but it's really emotional. Lauren's Death marks Philip's birth.
It's the song where Alex gets the news that Laurens died, it's flipping HEARTBREAKING, especially when Laurens sings the title line, "Tomorrow they'll be more of uss.."
Excuse me what
I was listening to Hamilton while I was looking at this list and I didn't realize I was listening to this song. In two seconds I was in tears. Only after I started crying, I realized I was listening to this song. The song is so emotional that it can make you cry even when you don't know it.
I cried during this song. So sad. The last time Hamilton and Eliza speak, and he's lying to Eliza, saying he'll come back and then he doesn't. Eliza didn't worry at the time because she didn't know what was going on. The piano part playing just makes me cry even more.
This is one of the saddest songs in the soundtrack if you really think of it. Because Eliza has no idea about the duel. She trusted her husband and that was the last time they talked without one of them dying. It's so sad and it makes me cry.
�Everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree, and no one will make them afraid..." I listened to this stanza over and over again and now I'm sobbing while I imagine holding my loved ones, "...and no one will make them afraid.." and everything will be okay. I want to sit under my own vine and fig tree and never be afraid.
This song it's so happy but sad at the same because George Washington is going home and oh my gosh it is just beautiful.
I'm embarrassed to say that this song makes me cry, but it does. The feeling behind it, plus the beautiful vocals, truly adds up to a sad song
Eliza is begging Alexander to come home so he doesn't die before his son is born.
It wasn't just the song, but the animatic I watched. John Laurens was that character who was kinda stuck in the background, but also one of the best. It was even worse when it mentioned "I may not live to see our glory." It made that line so much more real and sad. I cried and cried. I cry every time I hear it, I can't get over it.
Is sad because is Laurens's death and in the broadway Lafayette and Hercules can be seen in the balcony reading their letter from Laurens. When it say is about his death, Lafayette drops and Hercules pull out a flask and chugs it
When I heard this song I cried for an hour ( because I shipped Laurens and Hammy) and I still start to tear up every time I hear it.
Yeah I agree with this because knowing the fact that laurens dies before listening to this song makes me want to cry.
Congratulations is so sad because it shows true heartbreak and love for her sister. Much like Satisfied, it delves deeper into the fact that Angelica gave up love for Eliza. She loved her sister so much that she would give up her own happiness. She would do anything for her sisters, and in return she barely got any love besides sisterly love. It shows the heartbreak, but also how badass Angelica is!
This is when Angelica confronts Alexander about his affair, and even though it's not in the play, its still so powerful. "I love my sister more than anything in this life! " You can feel the anger in every line
Congratulations is just so beautiful, and sad. Angelica gave up what she wanted, Alexander, for her sister. She would rather be in pain than watch her sister suffer.
This is so sad ;-;
I fell bad for Burr again because he wasn't in the room where it happened.