Astronomy (8th Light)-Black Star

[ti:Astronomy (8th Light)] [ar:Black Star] [al:Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.21]Astronomy (8th Light) - Black Star [00:01.15]Written by：Weldon Irvine [00:01.99] [00:03.90]Against the canvas of the night [00:05.49] [00:06.31]Appears a curious celestial phenomenon [00:07.78]Black people unite and let's all get down [00:09.96]We got to have what we got to have that love [00:12.50]What is the Black Star [00:13.74]Is it the cat with the black shades the black car [00:16.46]Is it shining from very far to where you are [00:19.00]It is commonplace and different [00:20.68]Intimate and distant [00:21.85]Fresher than an infant [00:23.15]Black my family thick like black strap molasses [00:25.66]Star on the rise in the eyes of the masses [00:28.19]Black is the color of my true love's hair [00:30.69]Stars are bright shining hot balls of air [00:33.32]Black like my baby girl's stare [00:35.17]Black like the veil that the muslimina wear [00:37.70]Black like the planet that they fear why they scared [00:40.36]Black like the slave ship belly that brought us here [00:42.84]Black like the cheeks that are roadways for tears [00:45.38]That leave black faces well traveled with years [00:48.01]Black like assassin crosshairs [00:49.92]Blacker than my granddaddy armchair [00:52.17]He never really got no time to chill there [00:54.52]Cause this life is warfare warfare [00:56.32]Deep on the front lines and blacks is all there [00:58.83]Black like the perception of who on welfare [01:01.12]Black like faces at the bottom of the well [01:02.93]I've been there before [01:04.26]To bring the light and heat it up like la cocina [01:06.21]Make without imagine happen but maybe I'm just a dreamer [01:09.07]I love rocking tracks like John Coltrane love Naima [01:11.28]Like the student love the teacher [01:12.66]Like the prophet love Khadija [01:13.97]Like I love my baby features [01:15.22]Like the creator love all creatures [01:17.42]Who are knowledge truth and peace seekers [01:19.06]We on point like heat seekers [01:20.58]Targetting the black marketing strategists [01:22.89]Run up on 'em with the heaters [01:24.21]Everybody following with no leaders [01:26.29]Feeling like we killing ourselves [01:27.80]Because I know they can't defeat us [01:29.25]It don't stop 'til we complete this keep this fly [01:32.00]There's so much to life when you just stay black and die [01:34.19]Blacker than the nighttime sky of Bed-Stuy in July [01:37.15]Blacker than the seed in the blackberry pie [01:39.69]Blacker than the middle of my eye [01:41.63]Black like Fela man cry [01:43.56]Some man wan ask [01:44.50]Who am I [01:45.43]I simply reply The U N I V E R S A L Magnetic [01:49.94]Work to respect the angelic [01:51.85]Climb the mountain top and tell it 'til the valley's enveloped [01:54.98]You're full of big chat but you nah know me [01:57.55]I'm dark like the side of the moon you don't see [01:59.84]When the moon shine newly [02:01.63]You know who else is a Black Star [02:03.49]Who me [02:04.19]You know who else is a Black Star [02:05.99]Who me [02:06.77]You know who else is a Black Star who we and we [02:10.29]Be shining and shining when we rhymin and rhymin [02:12.69]We be shining and shining when we rhymin and rhymin [02:15.07]Now everybody hop on the one the sounds of the two [02:17.72]It's the third eye vision five side dimension [02:20.53]The 8th light is gonna shine bright tonight [02:22.89]It's the third eye vision five side dimension [02:25.38]You know the light [02:26.05]Go from the dark [02:26.81]The other way is a**-backwards [02:28.38]It's absurd [02:29.00]Make you wanna crow like a blackbird [02:30.89]That's right [02:31.51]You living from your first day to your last night [02:33.24]Sometimes you show your a** like [02:34.83]Lint on your clothes [02:35.77]When you froze in [02:36.65]The black light [02:37.29]Dead that [02:37.87]Before you get your head wrapped [02:39.19]Like Badu [02:39.82]We see through your voodoo [02:41.05]Just like Eve's Bayou you dealing with that black magic [02:43.77]Try to civilize you [02:44.87]Not walk on by you [02:46.07]Like Sybillies do get you black listed it'll [02:48.75]Be unlucky for you like a black cat [02:50.67]A panther [02:51.35]Revolution is the answer [02:52.92]That's what we need [02:53.75]Greed plague my people like the cancer [02:55.50]True indeed [02:56.14]Now black people unite and let's all get down [02:58.46]Now everybody hop on the one the sounds of the two [03:01.26]It's the third eye vision five side dimension [03:03.92]The 8th light is gonna shine bright tonight [03:06.34]Everybody hop on the one the sounds of the two [03:08.80]It's the third eye vision five side dimension [03:11.61]The 8th light is gonna shine bright tonight [03:13.96]It's the third eye vision five side dimension [03:16.90]Equaling up to eight light shine bright