My Shots
(a love song to the anti-vaxxers)
Act One, Song Three from
"Home-a-ton: A Quarantine Musical."
[HAMILTON]
I am not throwing away my… shots!
I am not throwing away my… shots!
Hey yo, we must have immunity
To live life with impunity
And I'm not throwing away my shots!
I’m amazed at how you reject knowledge
I prob’ly shouldn’t be, but your irrationality’s flawless
The problem is there’s not a turd that you cannot polish
When it comes from your fool president
It’s heaven-sent, won’t acknowledge
That he’s a con and a liar, and Vladdy Putin’s mole
Every word from his blowhole, his callous acts are all impeachable
Kayleigh McEnany’s lies get bolder
Claims conspiracies like Fox Mulder, I told her
Ev’ry chance he’s had to stem damage
He has managed to mismanage, just tells us it’ll vanish
His followers are Klannish
His plan is to fan our divisions to flame
Divert our damn attention, so let me spell out his game
He is the-
[HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS]
D-I-S-U-N-I-T
E-R-we are-meant to be…
[HAMILTON]
A colony that’s too distracted to see
His inaction has impacted us with protracted disease
Essentially, death spreads exponentially
While he lies to our face, makes insane decrees
Says maybe you should drink disinfectant tea
And we pray for a vaccination in this century
Please, Fauci?
[LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS]
(He says in parentheses)
[HAMILTON]
Don’t be shocked if it takes years for a vaccine
Let’s hope the price to get it won’t be obscene
A breakthrough would mean we could finally convene
So I am not throwing away my… shots (shots!)
I am not throwing away my… shots (shots!)
Hey yo, let’s see some effin’ unity
We live in a community
So, don’t throw away your shots
[HAMILTON/MULLIGAN/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE]
I am not throwing away my… shots
I am not throwing away my… shots
Hey yo, it ain’t forced compliance
It’s just medical science
And I'm not throwing away my… shots
It's time to take a shot!
[LAFAYETTE]
I don’t want the government controllin’ me
But, as best I can tell, you’re cajolin’ me
That the dudes at Breitbart are just trollin’ me
When they tell me the government will install 5G
With my-
[HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]
Shot!
[MULLIGAN]
Yo, I know this sounds portentous
But, I’m starting to believe that the dude from Apprentice
May not have all of our best interests in mind
So, when there’s a vaccine, I’d be crazy to decline!
I'm gonna take a-
[HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]
Shot!
[LAURENS]
Burr, you say it’s about freedom. Word?
But why is your freedom more pronounced than that of the herd?
You got rights, yeah that’s right. Until you’re infringing
Others’ rights hinging on your own whims impinging
Have another-
[HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]
Shot!
[BURR]
Freedom is all about choices
Laurens, you’re a turncoat – I don’t care what your boy says
Unlike you, my opinion can’t be bought
I won’t let them control my thoughts
Indoctrinated by their shots!
[HAMILTON]
Burr, you’ve lost the plot
Spittin’ wild theories like schizophrenic buckshot
I think you prob’ly ought
To pop a comfortable squat
Let’s educate your ass, so you don’t sound untaught
Michelle Bachmann said it’s causing autism - it’s not
Hotshot, you forgot, the feds already track you, like it or not
Your phone and your Alexa towers already check your hours and inspect your showers
You think they need the vaccine to track you with injective superpowers?!
Look, I know your Boys are Proud
They don’t trust the government, don’t wanna’ be cowed
But if they don’t want to see the world they love
Turn into a mushroom cloud…
[LAURENS]
Let's do what’s best for the whole crowd!
[HAMILTON/LAURENS/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/ENSEMBLE]
I am not throwing away my… shots
I am not throwing away my… shots
Hey yo, we must have immunity
To live life with impunity
And I'm not throwing away my… shots
I am not throwing away my… shots
I am not throwing away my… shots
Hey yo, let’s see some effin’ unity
We live in a community
And I'm not throwing away my shots
[LAURENS]
It’s just a little sting!
Whoa, whoa, whoa-oh-oh
Hey!
Whoa-oh-oh!
Owww!
Whoa-oh-oh!
Said, let ‘em spear ya!
Yeah
Polio!
Whoa, whoa, whoa-oh-oh
Is gone, and so is smallpox!
Whoa-oh-oh!
Said, so is smallpox!
Whoa-oh-oh!
Come on!
Yeah
Come on, let's go!
[LAURENS]
Mask up!
When you're living with disease, you mask up
Tell your brother that he's gotta mask up
Tell your sister that she's gotta mask up
[LAURENS AND ENSEMBLE]
When are these selfish Me’s gonna mask up?
When are these spreading sneeze gonna mask up?
When they cough and they wheeze, gonna mask up?
When will they just appease and mask up?
Mask up!
[HAMILTON]
We been spreadin’ death so much it feels like we’re supposed to be
When's it gonna get me?
In my office? From people I exposed to me?
If I get invited, do I go or do I let it be?
Why are there so many without empathy?
See, I never thought in twenty-twenty
We’d be so comfortable with deaths this plenty
The doubters ask us why we live in fear, while they jeer, reach for a beer
I fear no number of their dead peers is too many
Screw that
This is not suppression - it’s being human
Where your “Pro-Life,” “All Lives Matter,” and
“Fam-ly Val-ues” been?
Fools oppose this, stick their heads in the sand
Makes rules seem hopeless. Hospitals can’t withstand
Demand. ‘Zat the price of independence?
Trade a selfish bit of freedom for a death sentence?
Or will the shadow of death bring transcendence
Realize that our existence is interdependent?
I know resumin’ your old life is excitin’
But, Jesus, look at all the disease you’re invitin’
And the unease you’re incitin’
Let’s get a handle on this ample devastation
Are we a nation of facts? Then get your vaccination!
You’re rash - flagrantly hatin’, uncompassionately
Bashin’ every adaptation
We enact to try save this nation!
Stop actin’ like the sick and casualties are “someone else”
And for the first time, start thinkin’ past yourself
[HAMILTON AND COMPANY]
And I am not throwing away my… shots
I am not throwing away my… shots
Hey yo, it ain’t forced compliance
It’s just medical science
And I'm not throwing away my… shots
[HAMILTON/LAURENS/
LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN]
We're gonna mask up! Time to take a shot!
We're gonna mask up! Time to take a shot!
We're gonna
[COMPANY]
Mask up!
Mask up!
[HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/
LAURENS/MULLIGAN]
It’s time to take a shot!
[COMPANY]
Mask up!
Mask up!
[HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/
LAURENS/MULLIGAN]
It’s time to take a shot!
[COMPANY]
Mask up!
[HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/
LAURENS/MULLIGAN]
It’s time to take a shot!
[COMPANY]
Mask up!
[HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/
LAURENS/MULLIGAN]
Take a shot! Shot! Shot!
[HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/
LAURENS/MULLIGAN]
Time to take a shot!
Time to take a shot!
And I am-
[HAMILTON/LAFAYETTE/MULLIGAN/LAURENS]
Not throwin' away my-
[COMPANY]
Not throwin' away my shots!
