13 Reasons Why You Need to Get into ‘Hamilton’s’ World

7. Lin-Manuel Miranda has confessed it took him a year to write the first song, “Alexander Hamilton”

Then it took him another year to craft the second song, the show’s anthem, “My Shot.” He said in a 60 Minutes interview, “Every couplet needed to be the best couplet I ever wrote. That’s how seriously I was taking it.” You’ll notice King George’s ditty, “You’ll Be Back,” has a different feel from the rest of the show’s numbers. Miranda actually wrote it while on his honeymoon in 2010, without the aid of a piano. As for the lyrics in Aaron Burr’s song “Wait for It,” he explains, “I was going to a friend’s birthday party in [Brooklyn]. I sang the melody into the iPhone, then I went to the guy’s party for 15 minutes, and wrote the rest of the song on the train back home.”