charm her!" While it might've been nice to include, it also only works as a follow-on from the original "Schuyler Defeated", and it's arguable that's the bigger miss. ![]() However, while "Let It Go" was cut from the musical, it wasn't lost entirely, as Burr's aspects of the songs made it into "The Election of 1800", such as "Talk less. It means things can go straight from "Schuyler Defeated" to "Cabinet Battle #2", which is a better way of showcasing the various political struggles Hamilton was facing at this time, and that Burr wasn't the only issue to deal with. Although it's lyrically yet another strong song, the number doesn't add all that much to the narrative that isn't accomplished elsewhere, and so the removal helps to streamline Hamilton's story somewhat. Most of the rest of the song is taken up by Eliza and the returning George Washington trying to calm Hamilton down, or in other words telling him to "let it go" and to take a different approach to tackling his problem with Burr. "What in the hell was that? / What in the hell are you doing downtown? / Don't you know that Burr is going to run against your father to humiliate me and try to bring us down? / I will not let our family be embarrassed like this / I'll grab a pen and paper, let the whole world know / You swing at my family you better not miss / You better have another punch to throw." "Let It Go", then, finds an annoyed Alexander challenging Eliza on her getting in the way of his talking to Burr, singing: In that take on "Schuyler Defeated", Eliza and Philip Hamilton interrupt Alexander while he's confronting Aaron Burr about his decision to run against his father-in-law for the Senate seat, with things between them getting heated. One such example is "Let It Go", which would've been the eighth song in Act II of Hamilton, and would've came after the Off-Broadway version of "Schuyler Defeated", which was also changed in the finished production. ![]() Related: Hamilton: Every Deleted Song From The Musical (& Why They Were Cut)
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