Blueprint Architects

Chorus

Clear the record of the past

History is what you touch

What you see

The blueprint was always ours

Clear the record of the past

Who built the future with their hands

Their legacy

Black excellence in every hour

Verse 1

Marie Van Brittain Brown watching the door

While Alice Ball found the cure

Pat Bath with the laser light

Mary Kenner pioneered the belt right

Sarah Boone pressing on the board

Valerie Thomas seeing what others ignored

Marjorie Joiner waving through the hair

Sarah Good made the folding bed there

Shirley Jackson waiting on the line

Marian Croak making digital talk shine

Osborne Dorsey turning every knob

Doing the inventors heavy job

Pre-Chorus

Tracing every single signal high

Writing secrets in the sky

The rolls of the architects

Demanding our due respect

Chorus

Clear the record of the past

History is what you touch

What you see

The blueprint was always ours

Clear the record of the past

Who built the future with their hands

Their legacy

Black excellence in every hour

Verse 2

James West on the mic

George Alcorn sees the X-ray strike

Gordine physics in the gray smoke

David Crossweight heating up the folk

Otis Boykin built the small part

George Carruthers mastered the space art

Jerry Lawson let the game play

Jesse Russell paved the cellular way

Bessie Blount helped the people feed

Alice Parker met the furnace need

Miriam Benjamin heard the gong ring

Andrew Beard made the iron coupler swing

Pre-Chorus

Tracing every single signal high

Writing secrets in the sky

The rolls of the architects

Demanding our due respect

Chorus

Clear the record of the past

History is what you touch

What you see

The blueprint was always ours

Clear the record of the past

Who built the future with their hands

Their legacy

Black excellence in every hour

Bridge

Philip Downing at the mailbox street

John Stannard kept the cold meat sweet

Richard Spikes shifted the gear

Lloyd Hall made the cure clear

George Carver and the green legume

Gladys West gave the math room

Charles Drew saved the red vein

Frederick Jones took away the rot pain

Joseph Lee with the crumbs and bread

Thomas Jennings kept the style ahead

Madam Walker with the wealth and grace

Lanny Smoot lights up the final space

Chorus

Clear the record of the past

History is what you touch

What you see

The blueprint was always ours

Clear the record of the past

Who built the future with their hands

Their legacy

Black excellence in every hour