Rufio

Lyrics

[Intro: Utkarsh Ambudkar] *Yuh* U-T-K! Basco! Lin-Manuel! Who am I? Who am I? *yuh, yuh* [Chorus: Utkarsh Ambudkar] Call me Rufio, Rufio, never growing old I'll forever be a Lost Boy, until my body cold Call me Rufio, I hold this sort of gold I'll be forever makin' noise until they take away my soul [Verse 1: Utkarsh Ambudkar] Misfits, outcasts: I ain't never been included; I tried to be a cool kid, but the club was too exclusive I was last pick, ate alone; Friday nights, I stayed at home Never had a land, and so I had to go and make my own. Uh, huh Escaped into the bottle: ended up in the institution Anyone who's ever loved me would tell you I was a nuisance So, if you feel confusion and utterly disillusioned, just know That I turned that feeling into worldwide distribution. Yuh If I could do it, you could do it I had the biggest opportunity in the world, and I blew it Get into it, buried my career with the tulips Seen the fear and went through it Now I'm ready for moving When I put the pen to paper, see the ink its' hold its' hair About the follies of a man who used to think he'd never fail But the failure made me stronger, stronger than I've ever known Thank God the end has been postponed, and now this rhyme's how I atone [Chorus: Utkarsh Ambudkar] Call me Rufio, Rufio, never growing old I'll forever be a Lost Boy until my body cold Call me Rufio, I hold this sort of gold I'll be forever makin' noise until they take away my soul [Verse 2: Lin-Manuel Miranda] Second star to the right and straight on till morning I'm warning y'all, I'm sent too wild for the night I was born for performing, just more than y'all I storm at the station, I'm grabbin' the mic and I'm bashin' your brains in, that's entertainment Handle arrangements Annual payments After arraignments Let's break this shit down for the laymen's: Because the best of us are underrated, underestimated every day, man Just cause I am in a tux outside in L.A., I am not your valet, man Of a day in the struggle, of havin' to attain a sense double It's 2018: get stopped by a Nazi who pops your political bubble! Give me a pen and a shuffle: I write killer bars that I bury and muffle Slytherin Lin, stuffin' a motherfuckin' Hufflepuff in a duffle And I pick at this 'sitch, I'm in trouble; And I'm swingin' a pitch for a double I'ma pick out a ditch, and I'm fitting to dig in this bitch 'til i get you in trouble (Woo!) Hey ding-a-ling: Do you really wanna have another bang-a-rang? Just say my name, I ain't never growing up, bitch, bang-a-rang Bang-a-rang, bang-a-rang Do you really wanna have another bang-a-rang? Just say my name, I ain't never growing up, bitch, bang-a-rang [Chorus: Utkarsh Ambudkar] Call me Rufio, Rufio, never growing old I'll forever be a Lost Boy until my body cold Call me Rufio, I hold this sort of gold I'll be forever makin' noise until they take away my soul [Spoken: Basco] Brown boy-turned brown man Lost and I'm found, man 30 years in this industry, and we can't stop, we're still countin' Now I told the story, but it's not my own It belongs to anyone who's ever felt alone Like an outsider, a refugee For all the brown girls and boys to be like, "Yo, that's me!" And we're not a sidekick, the butt of a joke Some extra afterthought token character to throw us a bone We're the King of the Lost Boys, sitting on the throne And even though we die in the end, that's cool For kids of color, man, dying ain't nothin' new 'Cause now we're running Neverland, and Rufio will live forever, man So, we'll never be invisible ever again [Outro: Utkarsh Ambudkar] Call me, Rufio Call me Call me Rufio, Rufio, never growing old I'll forever be a Lost Boy until my body cold Call me Rufio, I hold this sort of gold I'll be forever makin' noise until they take away my soul