Burn but it's John Laurens singing
This is a version of "Burn" but it's about Laurens and how lots of his letters to Hamilton are missing and this is a possible reason as to why so many of them are missing. (The reason for them missing is because his father burned them because they were WAY to gay and saucy.
I saved every letter you wrote me
From the moment I read them
Do you know what Father said
When he saw your first letter arrive?
He said, "Be careful with that one, son”
"He will do what it takes to survive"
You and your words flooded my senses
Your sentences left me defenceless
You built me palaces out of paragraphs
I'm watching the letters you wrote me burn
They’re searching and scanning for meaning in every line
They destroyed the letters I wrote to you
Of how we were in our bed
They have buried our love
Do you know what Father said
When he read what we'd written?
He said, "You've fallen a sodomite”
"I should disown you, kill you!"
You and your words obsessed with our love
My sentences border on senseless
And we are paranoid in every paragraph
[silent pause with crying instead of “You, you, you!”]
They’re erasing our love from the narrative
Let future historians wonder how we related
Whether we loved each other
They have torn it all apart
Watching it burn [sobbing sound]
The world forbid your right to my heart
The world forbids our places in bed
They forbid me to love my love
They’re burning the memories
Burning the letters that will have… convicted us
They forbid all rights to my heart
They forbid your place in our bed
They forbid my place in our bed
With only the memories of when you were mine
I hope that you don’t burn
