Champagne

Champagne is the 21st song off of the soundtrack.

## Filming

* Oh no someone took a time lapse of me watching @ARamosofficial & @MelissaBarreraM sing Champagne
* When you find yourself working on new lyrics for Champagne for the first time in 12 years...

## Lyrics

[VANESSA]
So I got you a present
I went downtown to get it
Doing anything tonight?

[USNAVI]
Cleaning

[VANESSA]
Done for the daiii

[USNAVI]
No way

[VANESSA]
‘Cuz we got a date

[USNAVI]
Okay—

[VANESSA]
Before you board that plane
I owe you a bottle of cold champagne

[USNAVI]
No…

[VANESSA]
Yeah, cold champagne

[USNAVI]
Damn, the bottle’s all sweaty and everything
You went and got this—

[VANESSA]
Pop the champagne

[USNAVI]
I don’t know if we have coffee cups
Or plastic cups, I think Sonny has the cups—

[VANESSA]
Tonight we’re drinking straight from the bottle. Usnavi?

[USNAVI]
Yeah?

[VANESSA]
Daniela told me what you did for me
And it’s honestly the sweetest thing anyone ever did for me
Now, what can I say or do to possibly repay you for your kindness?

[USNAVI]
How do you get this gold shit off?

[VANESSA]
Usnavi!

[USNAVI]
Yeah!

[VANESSA]
Before we both leave town!
Before the corner changes and the signs are taken down
Let’s walk around the neighborhood and say our goodbyes
Usnavi, are you alright?

[USNAVI]
I’m fine, I’m tryn’a open this champagne
Y'see the twisty thing is broken
But I’m gonna open this damn champagne!

[VANESSA]
Lemme see it

[USNAVI]
No, I got it!

[VANESSA]
Yo, Usnavi, drop the champagne!

[USNAVI]
I mean you went to all this trouble to get us a little bubbly—

[VANESSA]
And it’s gonna be okay

[USNAVI]
I’m sorry, it’s been a long day

[VANESSA]
You oughta stay

[USNAVI]
What?

[VANESSA]
You can use that money to fix this place

[USNAVI]
Ha ha, very funny

[VANESSA]
And it’s not like Sonny’s got role models—

[USNAVI]
Role models?

[VANESSA]
Stepping up to the plate—

[USNAVI]
Yo, what are you talking about?

[VANESSA]
I’m just saying, I think your vacation can wait—

[USNAVI]
Vacation? Vanessa, you’re leaving too—

[VANESSA]
I’m going down to West Fourth Street; you can take the A—

[USNAVI]
What are you trying to say?

[VANESSA]
You’re leaving the country, and we’re never gonna see you again—

[USNAVI]
What are you trying to say?

[VANESSA]
You get everyone addicted to your coffee then off you go

[USNAVI]
Vanessa, I don’t know why you’re mad at me

[VANESSA]
I wish I was mad—

I’m just too late

## Tweets

* Songs I wrote DURING rehearsals/previews on Heights? Alabanza, Champagne, Piragua Reprise. Previews are not the end of the process.
* Hamilthought, show #12, 1/19/19:

Sabrina Sloan plays Angelica, but she also played VANESSA to my USNAVI on the 1st national tour in LA...
So when she’s letting me have it in The Reynolds Pamphlet, sometimes I think of Champagne, & it’s real f\*\*\*ed up and messy.

Which is good.

* In honor of getting ten thousand Twitter followers, Lin posted his and Karen Olivo's first run-through of Champagne [video]
* Monsieur, Le Mayor . . . I owe you a bottle of cold champagne. #Missedopportunity #okImgoing

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/Lin\_Manuel/status/1148342021050044416
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/Lin\_Manuel/status/1109124840202612736
3. ↑ https://genius.com/Lin-manuel-miranda-champagne-lyrics
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/Lin\_Manuel/status/222131497887477760
5. ↑ https://twitter.com/Lin\_Manuel/status/1086828127538548736
6. ↑ https://twitter.com/Lin\_Manuel/status/107860533092417536
7. ↑ https://twitter.com/Lin\_Manuel/status/902541691676131328
8. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSbBR\_9yq5s
9. ↑ https://twitter.com/Lin\_Manuel/status/108000194590810112
10. ↑ https://twitter.com/Lin\_Manuel/status/427105431396171777