Blackout

(album: In The Heights: A New Musical - 2008)

[PIRAGUA GUY:]
¿Oye, qué pasó?

[USNAVI:]
Blackout, blackout!

[PIRAGUA GUY:]
Vino el apagón
¡Ay dios!

[PIRAGUA GUY/MEN:]
¿Oye, qué pasó?

Vino el apagón
¡Ay dios!

[USNAVI:]
Yo! I!
Can't see!
Quit shoving you son-of-a
It's an oven
And we gotta back out
This is a blackout!
Chill, for real or we're gonna get killed!

[KEVIN:]
Calling all taxis!

[KEVIN/ USNAVI:]
Everyone relax please

[KEVIN:]
Calling all taxis!

[KEVIN/USNAVI:]
Everyone relax please

[BENNY:]
Somebody better open these goddamn doors!

[VANESSA:]
Somebody better open these goddamn doors!

[BENNY:]
Somebody better open these goddamn doors!

[VANESSA:]
And I can't find Usnavi...

[MEN:]
Oh, no!

[USNAVI:]
Blackout, blackout!

[BENNY:]
Hold up, wait! Hold up, wait!

Nina, where'd you go
I can't find you...

Nina
Take it slow

I'm behind you...

[SONNY:]
What's going on?
What's going on?

Suddenly I find
The electricity is gone

What's going on?
What's going on?

I gotta guard the store make sure that nothing's going wrong!

What's going on?
What's going on?

I gotta find Usnavi tell him what is going on

Nothing is on!

Nothing is on!

And I can't find Usnavi...

[BENNY:]
Nina where'd you go
Nina where'd you go
Nina where'd you go
I can't find you!

Nina where'd you go
Nina where'd you go
Nina where'd you go
I can't find you!

[USNAVI:]
Vanessa...

I gotta go...

[NINA:]
Has anyone seen Benny?
Benny...

[VANESSA:]
Usnavi
Help me!

[KEVIN:]
Please find Nina!
Find Camila!
If you see my family
Bring them
Home!

[SONNY:]
We are powerless
We are powerless

[VANESSA:]
Find my way home!
Usnavi
Help me

You left me alone!

[SONNY/NEIGHBORS:]
We are powerless
We are powerless!

[GRAFFITI PETE:]
Yo! Yo! They throwing bottles in the street!
People looting and shooting
Sonny, they wanna see a robbery
We gotta keep movin'!

[SONNY:]
Naw, man, I can't leave
We gotta guard the store!

[GRAFFITI PETE:]
They gonna bombard the store
Until you ain't got a store no more!

[SONNY:]
I got a baseball bat on a rack in the back

[GRAFFITI PETE:]
I got a couple of Roman candles
We can distract the vandals!

[SONNY:]
Hey yo I see some thugs coming
Man, we gonna get jacked up!

[GRAFFITI PETE:]
Gimme a light, I'll be right back. Back up...

[GRAFFITI PETE/SONNY:]
Back up! Back up!

[GROUP 1:]
Look at the fireworks...

Light up the night sky...

Look at the fireworks...

Light up the night sky!

[GROUP 2:]
Look at the fireworks...

Look at the fireworks fly!

Light up the night sky!

Look at the fireworks fly!

Light up the night sky...

[SONNY:]
It's late and this grate won't come down
Come down!

It's late and this grate won't come down!

[SONNY/MEN:]
We are powerless!...

[CARLA:]
Oh god so much panic! The crowd was manic

With everybody screaming and shoving and shouting and slapping
And everyone's frantic!
What's happening with you?

[CARLA/VANESSA/WOMEN:]
We are powerless!...

[DANIELA:]
Mira, mi amor

Házme un favor!

Despiérta la abuela y a lo mejor ella tiene una vela!

Estuve bailando cuando vino el apagón
Aqui hay gente pero no sé quienes son!

[COMMUNITY:]
Look at the fireworks...

[USNAVI:]
Abuela are you alright?

[COMMUNITY:]
Light up the night sky...

[ABUELA CLAUDIA:]
The stars are out tonight!

[COMMUNITY:]
Look at the fireworks...

[USNAVI:]
You're not alone tonight...

[COMMUNITY:]
Light up the night sky...

[USNAVI:]
You're not alone tonight...

[ABUELA CLAUDIA:]
I'm not alone tonight...

Usnavi, please promise me
You'll guard this with your life

[USNAVI:]
Abuela, I've never seen...

[USNAVI/ABUELA CLAUDIA:]
This much money in my life!

[BENNY:]
Nina there you are!

[NINA:]
I've gotta go!

[BENNY:]
I'll get you out of here tonight!

[NINA:]
I don't need anything tonight!
I can find my way home

[BENNY:]
Find your way home!

[NINA:]
Without you...

[NINA/BENNY:]
Without you!

[GROUP 1:]
Look at the fireworks...

Look at the fireworks...

Light up the night sky...

[GROUP 2:]
Look at the fireworks...

Look at the fireworks...

Light up the night sky...

[ALL:]
En Washington...
Look at the fireworks...
Look at the fireworks...

[GROUP 1:]
Light up the night sky...

[GROUP 2:]
Light up the night sky...

[ALL:]
En Washington Heights!