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

[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 [02:14.761] [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 [02:56.037] [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