Paciencia Y Fe-Olga Merediz/'In The Heights' Original Broadway Company

[ti:Paciencia Y Fe (Patience and Faith)] [ar:Olga Merediz] [al:In The Heights (Original Cast Recording)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Paciencia Y Fe - Olga Merediz/'In The Heights' Original Broadway Company [00:00.22]Written by：Olga Merediz [00:00.45]Calor [00:02.68]Calor [00:04.77]Calor [00:07.00] [00:08.62]Calor [00:10.50]Calor [00:12.44]Calor [00:17.24]Ay mama [00:18.46] [00:19.93]The summer's hottest day [00:23.19]Paciencia y fe [00:24.64] [00:26.45]Paciencia y fe [00:28.15] [00:29.26]Ay carajo it's hot [00:30.97] [00:32.58]But that's okay [00:35.39]Mama would say [00:36.85] [00:38.55]Paciencia y fe [00:40.75]It was hotter at home in La Vibora [00:43.55]The Washington heights of Havana [00:46.81]A crowded city of faces the same as mine [00:50.71] [00:53.24]Back as a child in La Vibora [00:55.15] [00:55.73]I chased the birds in the plaza [00:59.00]Praying mama you would find work [01:02.12]Combing the stars in the sky [01:04.45]For some sort of sign [01:07.44] [01:08.10]Ay mama so many stars in Cuba [01:12.47] [01:13.85]En nueva york we can't see beyond our streetlights [01:18.31] [01:19.94]To reach the roof you gotta bribe the Supa [01:23.83] [01:25.84]Ain't no cassiopia in Washington heights [01:30.30]But ain't no food in La Vibora [01:33.66] [01:34.20]I remember nights [01:35.26]Anger in the streets hunger at the windows [01:38.55] [01:39.60]Women folding clothes [01:41.00]Playing with my friends in the summer rain [01:45.03]Mama needs a job [01:46.63]Mama says we're poor one day [01:48.12]You say Vamos a Nueva york [01:50.72]And Nueva york was far [01:52.33]But Nueva york had work and so we came [01:56.91] [01:57.50]And now I'm wide awake [02:00.07]A million years too late [02:02.10] [02:03.01]I talk to you imagine what you'd do [02:07.26]Remembering what we went through [02:14.98]Nueva york [02:16.13]Ay mama [02:17.35]It wasn't like today you'd say [02:20.65]Paciencia y fe [02:22.40]Paciencia y fe [02:23.89]Paciencia y fe [02:25.50]Paciencia y [02:25.94]Fresh off the boat in America [02:28.55]Freezing in early December [02:31.47]A crowded city in 1943 [02:35.60] [02:37.33]Learning the ropes in America [02:40.04]En espanol I remember [02:42.80]Dancing with Mayor Laguardia [02:45.58]All of society welcoming mami and me ha [02:51.66]You better clean this mess [02:53.23]Paciencia y fe [02:54.56]You better learn ingles [02:55.93]Paciencia y fe [02:56.86]You better not be late [02:59.61]You better pull your weight [03:02.05] [03:02.69]Are you better off then you were [03:04.58]With the birds of La Vibora [03:07.88]Sharing double beds trying to catch [03:10.02]A break struggling with English [03:12.17] [03:13.59]Listening to friends [03:14.75]Finally got a job working as a maid [03:18.81]So we cleaned some homes polishing with pride [03:22.02]Scrubbing the whole of the upper east side [03:24.76]The days into weeks the weeks into years [03:27.75]And here I stayed [03:31.01]Paciencia y fe [03:32.24]Paciencia y fe [03:33.30]Paciencia y fe [03:34.55]And as I fed these birds [03:36.79]My hands begin to shake [03:39.07] [03:39.62]And as I say these words [03:42.79]My heart's about to break [03:45.65] [03:46.31]And ay mama [03:47.10]What do you do when your dreams come true [03:51.45]I've spent my life inheriting dreams from you [03:57.43]What do I do with this winning ticket [04:02.05] [04:04.25]What can I do but pray [04:09.72] [04:11.66]I buy my loaf of bread [04:13.80] [04:14.66]Continue with my day [04:17.17]And see you in my head [04:20.27]Imagining what you'd say [04:23.12]The birds they fly away [04:24.74]Do they fly to La Vibora [04:28.31] [04:29.36]Hey alright mama okay [04:32.94] [04:35.11]Paciencia y fe [04:41.87]Calor [04:42.88]Calor [04:44.37]Calor