The world was wide enough

          This song is about Hamilton's and Burr's duel and Hamilton's final moments. The majority of the song is put in Burr's perspective because he was the one that survived and since he survived, he gets to be one of the people to tell the story. through the tone of Burr's voice leading up the final shot, it sounded as though Burr didn't really want to participate in the duel but he was going to so that he could protect his daughter. he states in the song "I had only one thought before the slaughter. This man will not make an orphan of my daughter." So he is in this duel so that he can make it back to his daughter and watch her grow up into a young woman.

          Something else that I found was interesting was when Hamilton started to speak, it almost sounded like Hamilton was in a poetry slam event. The reason that it sounds like a poetry slam is because there are moments where Hamilton is quiet but then he gets loud and gets really into it. for example, Hamilton was quiet when he said Eliza's name, and how she should take her time, and that he will see her on the other side when it's her time. I think that Hamilton was quiet during this part because people tend to associate women with being soft, weak, quiet, etc. and this was a way to show that "feminine" side. 

          Lastly, probably the most interesting thing that occurred in the song is the line "he aims his pistol at the sky-" this line, to me is the most interesting one in this song because at the last second, Hamilton just puts his pistol up the sky and it's like a form of surrender. But Burr wasn't aware of Hamilton's surrender so by the time that he realized, it was to late. I have a theory as to why Hamilton put his pistol up to the sky. In the song "Blow us all away" Phillip gets in a duel with George Eacker, and Hamilton told Phillip to point his pistol up to the sky as a form of surrender but when he did that, George had already fired and it was to late. coincidence? I think not. So maybe Hamilton put his pistol up to the sky because he still feels guilty for what happened to Phillip, that it was his fault that he died, and so if he put his pistol up to the sky, then it would make up for what happened to Phillip. On some level, I think Hamilton knew that he was going to die, because in the poetry slam part, it sounded like he was saying goodbyes to the people that he knew and cared for.