I've been excited about this song for a very long time, as a massive Hamilton fan. This is based on Sam's cover of Lin-Manuel Miranda's My Shot from the hip hop musical Hamilton (which is awesome, btw). One new thing about this Scanlan Song is that there are parts for every member of Vox Machina! Fantastic vocalist Danita Gilbert sings AND raps as Keyleth, Vex, and Pike! Tweet love at her @taurigeek and check out her Youtube channel, GateGeek, where you can find more Critter-themed music! If you'd like to download the mp3 for this song, click here, and if you'd like to see the lyrics click here. Small side note: I was asked to post these to Youtube to make listening/sharing easier, so if you'd rather listen to them there, feel free to check it out here.
My Shot
Scanlan:
You are not throwin’ away your shot!
You are not throwin’ away your shot!
You’re just like your sister you’re young, brooding and hungry
And you’re not throwin’ away your shot!
You'll be called to the Raven Queen’s College
Prob’ly shouldn’t brag, but dag, you amaze and astonish
The problem is you got a lot of dex but no caution
I gotta holler just to be heard
With every word, I drop knowledge
You're a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal
Tryin’ to reach your skull my power of speech, unimpeachable
Look nineteen but your mind is older
These Exandria streets get colder, you shoulder
Every burden, every disadvantage
You have learned to manage, you don’t have a gun to brandish
You walk these streets and vanish
The plan is to fan this spark into a flame
But damn, it’s getting dark, so let me spell out the name
You are the V-A-X-dash-I-L-D-A-N I am meant to be
in a party that runs independently
Meanwhile, dragons keeps shittin’ on us endlessly
Essentially, they raze us relentlessly
Then Thordak turns around, hoards the whole city
He ain’t ever gonna let those peasants be
So there will be a revolution in this century
Enter me, you say under raven's wings
Don’t be shocked when your hist’ry book mentions V
You will lay down your life if it sets us free
Eventually, we’ll see your ascendancy
And you are not throwing away your shot
You are not throwing away your shot
Hey yo, you're just like your sister
You're young, brooding and bitter
And you're not throwing away my shot
It’s time to take a shot
Grog:
I dream of life without a dragon bein'
The ruler of our home, it'll lead to onarchy?
Onarchy how you say, how you say, anarchy?
When I fight, I make the other side panicky
With my, shot
Pike:
Yo, I’m Serenrae’s apprentice
And I got y’all knuckleheads in loco parentis
I’m joining the rebellion 'cause I know it’s my chance
To kick some pants and do the monstah mash!
I’m gonna take a shot
Vex:
But we’ll never be truly free
Until those in bondage have the same rights as you and me
You and I. Do or die. Wait till I attack
On a broomstick with the first black witch's hat
Have another shot
Percy:
Geniuses, lower your voices
You keep out of trouble and you double our choices
I’m with you, but the situation is fraught
You’ve got to be carefully taught
If you talk, you’re gonna get shot
Scanlan:
Percy, check what we got:
Mister Grog Strongjaw, hard rock like Lancelot
I think your beard looks hot
Now, Vax, I like you a lot
Let’s hatch a plot blacker than the kettle callin’ the pot
What are the odds the gods would put us all in one spot
Poppin’ a squat on conventional wisdom, like it or not
A bunch of revolutionary on a mission abolitionists
Give me a position, show Percy where the ammunition is
Oh, am I talkin’ too loud?
Sometimes I get overexcited, shoot off at the mouth
I never had a daughter before
I promise that I’ll make her proud
Keyleth:
Let’s get this guy in front of a crowd!
All:
And you are not throwing away your shot
You are not throwing away your shot
Hey yo, you're just like your sister
You're young, brooding and hungry (bitter)
And you're not throwing away my shot
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa
Ay, let ‘em hear ya
Let’s go
Whoa, whoa, whoa I said shout it to the rooftops
Whoa, whoa, whoa said, to the rooftops
Whoa, whoa, whoa come on
Come on, let’s go
Rise up
When you’re living on your knees, you rise up
Vex, Tell your brother he’s gotta rise up
Vax, Tell your sister she's gotta rise up
When are these cities gonna rise up?
When are these cities gonna rise up?
When are these cities gonna rise up?
When are these cities gonna rise up?
Rise up
Vax:
I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
When’s it gonna get me?
In my sleep, seven feet ahead of me?
If I see it comin’, do I run or do I let it be?
Is it like a beat without a melody?
See, I never thought I’d live past thirty
When my sister fell I thought I'd trade her for me
Ask anybody why we livin’ fast and we laugh, reach for the cask
We have to make this moment last, that's plenty
Keyleth:
Scratch that, this is not a moment, it’s the movement
Where all the hungriest sisters with something to prove went
Foes oppose us, we try to take an honest stand
We roll like Whitestone, claimin’ our promised land
And? If we win our independence?
‘Zat a guarantee of freedom for our descendants?
Or will the blood we shed begin an endless cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants?
I know the action in the street is excitin'
But Sun Tree, between all the bleedin’ ‘n fightin’
I’ve been thinkin’ ‘n scryin’
We need to handle our moral dichotomy
Are we a party of fakes? What’s the state of our party?
I’m past patiently waitin' I’m passionately smashin’ every expectation
Every action’s an act of creation
I’m pausin' in the face of casualties and sorrow
For the first time, I’m thinkin’ past tomorrow
Vax:
And I am not throwing away my shot
I am not throwing away my shot
Hey yo, I’m just like my sister
I’m young, brooding and hungry
And I’m not throwing away my shot
We’re gonna rise up (time to take a shot)
We’re gonna rise up (time to take a shot)
We’re gonna, rise up, rise up
It's time to take a shot
Rise up, rise up, it's time to take a shot
Rise up, it's time to take a shot
Rise up, take a shot, shot, shot
It's time to take a shot, time to take a shot
And I am not throwing away my shot
Not throwing away my shot