Astronomy (8th Light) - Black Star/Weldon Irvine.mp3

[00:03.128]Against the canvas of the night
[00:05.176]Appears a curious celestial phenomenon
[00:07.781]Called Black Star, but what is it?
[00:08.329]
[00:08.802]Black people unite and let's all get down
[00:09.653]We got to have what? We got to have that love
[00:12.319]
[00:12.531]What is the Black Star
[00:13.410]Is it the cat with the black shades, the black car?
[00:15.946]Is it shinin from very far, to where you are?
[00:18.566]It is commonplace and different
[00:20.316]Intimate and distant
[00:21.564]Fresher than an infant
[00:23.083]
[00:23.319]Black, my family thick, like black strap molasses
[00:25.444]Star, on the rise, in the eyes of the masses
[00:27.848]Black is the color of my true love's hair
[00:30.360]Stars are bright, shining, hot balls of air
[00:32.685]
[00:33.065]Black like my baby girl's stare
[00:35.118]Black like the veil that the muslimina wear
[00:37.383]Black like the planet that they fear, why they scared?
[00:40.038]Black like the slave ship belly that brought us here
[00:42.553]Black like the cheeks that are roadways for tears
[00:44.952]That leave black faces well traveled with years
[00:47.648]Black like assassin crosshairs
[00:49.633]Blacker than my granddaddy armchair
[00:51.616]He never really got no time to chill there
[00:54.325]'Cause this life is warfare, warfare
[00:56.367]
[00:56.606]Deep on the front lines, and blacks is all there
[00:58.316]Black like the perception of who, on welfare
[01:00.957]Black like faces at the bottom of the well
[01:02.709]I've been there before
[01:03.712]To bring the light and heat it up like la cocina
[01:06.224]Make without imagine happen but maybe I'm just a dreamer
[01:08.600]I love rocking tracks like John Coltrane love Naima
[01:11.286]Like the student love the teacher
[01:12.772]Like the prophet love Khadija
[01:13.754]Like I love my baby features
[01:15.090]Like the creator love all creatures
[01:17.266]
[01:17.542]Who are knowledge, truth, and peace seekers
[01:18.858]We on point like heat seekers
[01:20.024]Targettin the black marketing strategists
[01:22.519]Run up on em with the heaters
[01:23.888]Everybody followin with no leaders
[01:25.545]Feelin like we killin ourselves
[01:27.627]Because I know they can't defeat us
[01:28.890]It don't stop til we complete this, keep this fly
[01:31.570]There's so much to life when you just stay black and die
[01:34.238]
[01:34.466]Blacker than the nighttime sky of Bed-Stuy in July
[01:36.707]Blacker than the seed in the blackberry pie
[01:39.295]Blacker than the middle of my eye
[01:41.090]Black like Fela man cry
[01:43.075]Some man wan ask "Who am I?"
[01:45.178]I simply reply, "The U.N.I., V.E.R.S.A.L. Magnetic"
[01:49.702]Work to respect the angelic
[01:51.264]Climb the mountain top and tell it 'til the valley's enveloped
[01:54.754]You're full of big chat but you nah know me
[01:57.048]I'm dark like the side of the moon you don't see
[01:59.574]When the moon shine newly
[02:01.375]You know who else is a Black Star? (Who?) Me
[02:03.921]You know who else is a Black Star? (Who?) Me
[02:06.430]You know who else is a Black Star, who we? (And we)
[02:09.979]be shinin and shinin, when we rhymin and rhymin
[02:12.249]We be shinin and shinin, when we rhymin and rhymin
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[02:15.056]Now everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two
[02:17.397]It's the third eye vision, five side dimension
[02:20.047]The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright tonight
[02:22.646]It's the third eye vision, five side dimension
[02:25.105]You know the light
[02:25.917]Go from the dark
[02:26.514]The other way is ass-backwards
[02:28.046]It's absurd
[02:28.709]Make you wanna crow like a blackbird
[02:30.523]That's right
[02:31.357]You livin from your first day to your last night
[02:33.025]Sometimes you show your ass like
[02:34.337]Lint on your clothes
[02:35.591]When you froze in
[02:36.302]THE BLACK LIGHT
[02:37.141]Dead that
[02:37.781]Before you get your head wrapped
[02:39.009]Like Badu
[02:39.532]We see through your voodoo
[02:40.828]Just like Eve's Bayou, you dealin with that black magic
[02:43.089]Try to civilize you
[02:44.510]Not walk on by you
[02:45.646]Like Sybil lies do get you black listed, it'll
[02:48.374]Be unlucky for you like a black cat
[02:50.336]A panther
[02:50.935]Revolution is the answer
[02:52.481]That's what we need
[02:53.468]Greed plague my people like the cancer
[02:55.220]True indeed
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[02:56.261]Now black people unite, and let's ALL GET DOWN
[02:58.546]Now everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two
[03:00.937]It's the third eye vision, five side dimension
[03:03.504]The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright tonight
[03:06.147]Everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two
[03:08.645]It's the third eye vision, five side dimension
[03:11.467]The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright tonight
[03:13.675]It's the third eye vision, five side dimension
[03:16.299]Equalin up to eight, light shine bright