Hundreds of Stories

[USNAVI]

Abuela!

[ABUELA CLAUDIA]

Are you OK?

[ABUELA CLAUDIA/USNAVI]

Paciencia y fe!

Paciencia y fe!

[USNAVI]

Let me see it again!

[ABUELA CLAUDIA]

We kept it safe

[USNAVI]

So we survived the night;

What happens today?

[ABUELA CLAUDIA]

A third for you

[USNAVI]

Uh huh, uh huh! Uh huh, uh huh!

[ABUELA CLAUDIA]

A third for me!

[USNAVI]

No pare! Sigue, sigue!

[ABUELA CLAUDIA]

The rest for Sonny—

And with our share of the money

And with our share of the money—

Dream of the seaside air!

See me beside you there!

Think of the hundreds of stories we will share!

You and I!

[USNAVI/ABUELA CLAUDIA]

Ayy…

[ABUELA CLAUDIA]

Now you can sell your store!

Open a bar by the shore!

I’ve told you hundreds of stories

About home; make some more

[USNAVI/ABUELA CLAUDIA]

More…

[USNAVI]

Yo! I know just where to go!

There’s a little beach named Playa Rincón

With no road, you need a rowboat or motorbike

To reach this beach, it’s just a stone’s throw

From home

My folks’ home

Before I was born

Before they passed on

And left me on my own, in New York, with the grocery store

They would talk about home, I listened closely for

The way they whispered to each other

‘Bout the warmer winter weather

Inseparable, they even got sick together

They never got better… passed away that December

And left me with these memories like dyin’ embers

From a dream I can’t remember…

Ever since then it’s like

Another day deeper in debt with different dilemmas

The bodega’s a mess, I’ll be seeing less of Vanessa

Abuela I don’t know how I can keep it together!

[ABUELA CLAUDIA]

Remember the story of your name...

It was engraved on a passing ship on the day your family came

Your father said “Usnavi,​

That’s what we’ll name the baby.”

[USNAVI]

It really said “U.S. Navy,” but hey…

I worked with what they gave me okay…

[ABUELA CLAUDIA]

They’d be so proud of you today!

[USNAVI]

Then by the end of July

[ABUELA CLAUDIA]

Uh huh, uh huh! Uh huh, uh huh!

[USNAVI]

Out where the sea meets the sky!

[ABUELA CLAUDIA]

No pare! Sigue, sigue!

[USNAVI/ABUELA CLAUDIA]

Think of the hundreds of stories

We’ll create

You and I!

Ay…

[ABUELA CLAUDIA]

We’ll find your island—

[USNAVI]

I’ll find my island sky

[ABUELA CLAUDIA]

Ay, find your island—

[USNAVI]

But whatever we do it’s—

[USNAVI/ABUELA CLAUDIA]

You and I!

• Artist:In the Heights (Musical)
• Album:In The Heights