Black Star, Weldon Irvine - Astronomy (8th Light)

[00:01.13] (Mos Def) [00:03.24] Against the canvas of the night [00:05.78] Appears a curious celestial phenomena [00:07.85] Called Black Star, but what is it? [00:08.63] (Talib Kweli) [00:09.03] Black people unite and let's all get down [00:10.28] We got to have what? We got to have that love [00:11.95] (Mos Def) [00:12.45] What is the Black Star? [00:13.97] Is it the cat with the black shades, the black car? [00:16.23] Is it shinin from very far, to where you are? [00:18.71] It is commonplace and different [00:20.31] Intimate and distant [00:21.74] Fresher than an infant [00:22.66] (Talib Kweli) [00:23.02] Black, my family thick, like they're striped molasses [00:25.42] Star, on the rise, in the eyes of the masses [00:28.03] Black is the color of my true love's hair [00:30.41] Star's are bright, shining, hot balls of air [00:32.57] (Mos Def) [00:32.83] Black like my baby girl's stare [00:35.14] Black like the veil that the muslimina wear [00:37.43] Black like the planet that they fear, why they scared? [00:39.98] Black like the slave ship that later brought us here [00:42.55] Black like the cheeks that are roadways for tears [00:45.39] That leave black faces well traveled with years [00:47.54] Black like assassin crosshairs [00:49.79] Blacker than my granddaddy armchair [00:52.07] He never really got no time to chill there [00:54.48] Cause this life is warfare, warfare [00:56.28] (Talib Kweli) [00:56.50] Deep on the front lines, and blacks is all there [00:58.83] Black like the perception of who, on welfare [01:01.27] Black like faces at the bottom of the well [01:02.96] I've been there before [01:04.26] To bring the light and heat it up like "la cocina" [01:05.91] Make without imagine happen but maybe I'm just a dreamer [01:08.55] I love rockin tracks like John Coltrane love Naema [01:11.12] (M)Like the student love the teacher [01:12.57] (T)Like the prophet love Khadeja [01:13.91] (M)Like I love my baby features [01:15.25] (A)Like the creator love all creatures [01:16.98] (Talib Kweli) [01:17.23] Who acknowledge truth and peace seekers [01:19.09] We on point like heat seekers [01:20.45] Targettin the black marketing strategists [01:22.66] Run up on em with the heaters [01:24.11] Everybody followin with no leaders [01:26.18] Feelin like we killin ourselves [01:27.77] Because I know they can't defeat us [01:29.29] It don't stop til we complete this, keep this fly [01:31.71] There's so much to life when you just stay Black and God [01:34.00] (Mos Def) [01:34.42] Blacker than the nighttime sky of Bed-Stuy in July [01:37.09] Blacker than the seed in the blackberry pie [01:39.56] Blacker than the middle of my eye [01:41.32] Black like feh-lah man cry [01:43.23] Some man wan ask "Who am I?" [01:45.35] I simply reply, "The U.N.I., V.E.R.S.A.L. Magnetic" [01:49.00] Work to respect the angelic, climb the mountaintop [01:52.91] And tell it til the valley's enveloped [01:54.74] You're full of big chat but you nah know me [01:57.20] I'm dark like the side of the moon you don't see [01:59.74] When the moon shine newly [02:01.42] (M)You know who else is a Black Star? (Who?) Me [02:04.27] (T)You know who else is a Black Star? (Who?) Me [02:06.61] (A)You know who else is a Black Star, who we? (And we) [02:09.43] (A)be shinin and shinin, when we rhymin and rhymin [02:12.32] We be shinin and shinin, when we rhymin and rhymin [02:14.64] (Mos Def) [02:14.91] Now everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two [02:17.44] It's the third eye vision, five side dimension [02:20.28] The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright tonight [02:22.60] It's the third eye vision, five side dimension [02:25.18] (T)You know the light [02:26.28] (M)Go from the dark [02:27.15] (T)The other way is ass-backwards [02:28.54] (M)It's absurd [02:29.39] (T)Make you wanna crow like a blackbird [02:30.84] (M)That's right [02:31.51] (T)You livin from your first day to your last night [02:33.29] (T)Sometimes you show your ass like [02:34.55] (M)Lint on your clothes [02:35.72] (T)When you froze in [02:36.52] (A)THE BLACK LIGHT [02:37.34] (M)Dead that [02:38.08] (T)Before you get your head wrapped [02:39.14] (M)Like Badu [02:39.88] (T)We see through your voodoo [02:40.94] (T)Just like Eve's Bayou, you dealin with that black magic [02:43.45] (M)Try to civilize you [02:44.69] (T)Not walk on by you [02:45.99] (M)Like civil-(lies do get you black listed) it'll [02:48.55] (T)Be unlucky for you like a black cat [02:50.74] (M)A panther [02:51.51] (T)Revolution is the answer [02:52.83] (M)That's what we need [02:53.96] (T)Greed plague my people like the cancer [02:55.25] (M)True indeed [02:55.85] (Mos Def) [02:56.20] Now black people unite, and let's ALL GET DOWN [02:58.46] Now everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two [03:01.00] It's the third eye vision, five side dimension [03:03.59] The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright tonight [03:06.16] Everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two [03:08.68] It's the third eye vision, five side dimension [03:11.07] The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright tonight [03:13.72] It's the third eye vision, five side dimension [03:16.32] Equalin up to eight, light shine bright [03:18.57]