A Start (Lyrics)

by and now Miguel

A Star

and now Miguel

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Lyrics

Word to Carl Sagon, everybody is a star

I’m just Bronx boy who be studyin’ the bars¹

Like Neil Degrasse Tyson, I am Caribbean

I pray, the Black Fates, follow him across²

This Odyssey. A journey to be one with who you are

May her mathematics guide em in the space across (the stars)./

Thats Katherine, Dorothy, and Mary Hidden Figures³

Say Her Names, time to unmask them figures

An asset. No need to hide them figures

My Girl yous a Queen. MVP of the Team

In Spanish yous a tesoro, Its seen in your genes

Not only talking about the fit but how the sun hits different

Yous a Healer, like Henrietta4. Relax⁴

You got cha bad easily secure the bag

Forget them other haters, who be tryina block your blessins

Your the stuff of stars⁵, never second guessing it

FOOTNOTES

1. 1. Lyrics spat over 9th Wonder's "A Star U R." Studying the bars of the bards, the poets. ↩
2. 2. Drawing on the book title, Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (1987) by Martin Bernal ↩
3. 3. See article “The Story of NASA’s Real ‘Hidden Figures’ and Movie, Hidden Figure” by Elizbeth Howell for Space.com, (2017), ↩
4. 4. See The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) Rebecca Sckloot. Healer is making reference to the HeLa gene. ↩
5. 5. See Carol Sagon “Stars: We Are Their Children” from the TV show, Cosmos (1980) both women, and Stars. Opening the verse and closing it with Carl Sagon. ↩