Mos Def & Talib Kweli - Astronomy (8th Light) lyrics

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Against the canvas of the night

Appears a curious celestial phenomena

(Black people unite and let's all get down)

Called Black Star but what is it?

(We got to have what? We got to have that love)

What is the Black Star?

Is it the cat with the black shades, the black car?

Is it shinin' from very far to where you are?

It is commonplace and different

Intimate and distant, fresher than an infant

Black, my family thick, like they're striped molasses

Star, on the rise, in the eyes of the masses

Black is the color of my true love's hair

Star's are bright, shinin', hot balls of air

Black like my baby girl's stare

Black like the veil that the muslimina wear

Black like the planet that they fear, why they scared?

Black like the slave ship that later brought us here

Black like the cheeks that are roadways for tears

That leave black faces well traveled with years

Black like assassin crosshairs

Blacker than my granddaddy armchair

He never really got no time to chill there

'Cause this life is warfare, warfare

Deep on the front lines and blacks is all there

Black like the perception of who, on welfare

Black like faces at the bottom of the well

I've been there before

To bring the light and heat it up like 'La cocina'

Make without imagine happen

But maybe I'm just a dreamer

I love rockin' tracks like John Coltrane love Naema

Like the student love the teacher

Like the prophet love Khadeja

Like I love my baby features

Like the creator love all creatures

Who acknowledge truth and peace seekers?

We on point like heat seekers

Targettin' the black marketin' strategists

Run up on 'em with the heaters

Everybody followin' with no leaders

Feelin' like we killin' ourselves

Because I know they can't defeat us

It don't stop til we complete this, keep this fly

There's so much to life when you just stay Black and God

Blacker than the nighttime sky of Bed-Stuy in July

Blacker than the seed in the blackberry pie

Blacker than the middle of my eye

Black like feh-lah man cry

Some man wan ask, who am I?

I simply reply, 'The U N I V E R S A L Magnetic'

Work to respect the angelic, climb the mountaintop

And tell it 'til the valley's enveloped

You're full of big chat

But you nah know me

I'm dark like the side of the moon you don't see

When the moon shine newly

You know who else is a Black Star? Who? Me

You know who else is a Black Star? Who? Me

You know who else is a Black Star, who we? And we

Be shinin' and shinin', when we rhymin' and rhymin'

We be shinin' and shinin', when we rhymin' and rhymin'

Now, everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two

It's the third eye vision, five side dimension

The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright tonight

It's the third eye vision, five side dimension

You know the light, go from the dark

The other way is ass-backwards, it's absurd

Make you wanna crow like a blackbird, that's right

You livin' from your first day to your last night

Sometimes you show your ass like

Lint on your clothes when you froze in

The Black Light, dead that

Before you get your head wrapped like Badu

We see through your voodoo

Just like Eve's Bayou, you dealin' with that black magic

Try to civilize you, not walk on by you

Like civil, lies do get you black listed, it'll

Be unlucky for you like a black cat

A panther, revolution is the answer, that's what we need

Greed plague, like my people like the cancer

True indeed

Now black people unite, let's all get down

Now everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two

It's the third eye vision, five side dimension

The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright tonight

Everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two

It's the third eye vision, five side dimension

The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright tonight

It's the third eye vision, five side dimension

Equalin' up to 8th Light shine bright