Black Star - Astronomy Lyrics
[mos def]Against the canvas of the nightAppears a curious celestial phenomenaCalled black star, but what is it?[talib kweli]Black people unite and let's all get downWe got to have what? we got to have that love[mos def]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 differentIntimate and distantFresher than an infant[talib kweli]Black, my family thick, like they're striped molassesStar, on the rise, in the eyes of the massesBlack is the color of my true love's hairStar's are bright, shining, hot balls of air[mos def]Black like my baby girl's stareBlack like the veil that the muslimina wearBlack like the planet that they fear, why they scared?Black like the slave ship that later brought us hereBlack like the cheeks that are roadways for tearsThat leave black faces well traveled with yearsBlack like assassin crosshairsBlacker than my granddaddy armchairHe never really got no time to chill thereCause this life is warfare, warfare[talib kweli]Deep on the front lines, and blacks is all thereBlack like the perception of who, on welfareBlack like faces at the bottom of the wellI've been there beforeTo bring the light and heat it up like "la cocina"Make without imagine happen but maybe i'm just a dreamerI love rockin tracks like john coltrane love naema[m] like the student love the teacher[t] like the prophet love khadeja[m] like i love my baby features[a] like the creator love all creatures[talib kweli]Who acknowledge truth and peace seekersWe on point like heat seekersTargettin the black marketing strategistsRun up on em with the heatersEverybody followin with no leadersFeelin like we killin ourselvesBecause i know they can't defeat usIt don't stop til we complete this, keep this flyThere's so much to life when you just stay black and god[mos def]Blacker than the nighttime sky of bed-stuy in julyBlacker than the seed in the blackberry pieBlacker than the middle of my eyeBlack like feh-lah man crySome 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 mountaintopAnd tell it til the valley's envelopedYou're full of big chat but you nah know meI'm dark like the side of the moon you don't seeWhen the moon shine newly[m] you know who else is a black star? (who?) me[t] you know who else is a black star? (who?) me[a] you know who else is a black star, who we? (and we)[a] be shinin and shinin, when we rhymin and rhyminWe be shinin and shinin, when we rhymin and rhymin[mos def]Now everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the twoIt's the third eye vision, five side dimensionThe 8th light, is gonna shine bright tonightIt's the third eye vision, five side dimension[t] you know the light[m] go from the dark[t] the other way is ass-backwards[m] it's absurd[t] make you wanna crow like a blackbird[m] that's right[t] you livin from your first day to your last night[t] sometimes you show your ass like[m] lint on your clothes[t] when you froze in[a] the black light[m] dead that[t] before you get your head wrapped[m] like badu[t] we see through your voodoo[t] just like eve's bayou, you dealin with that black magic[m] try to civilize you[t] not walk on by you[m] like civil-(lies do get you black listed) it'll[t] be unlucky for you like a black cat[m] a panther[t] revolution is the answer[m] that's what we need[t] greed plague my people like the cancer[m] true indeed[mos def]Now black people unite, and let's all get downNow everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the twoIt's the third eye vision, five side dimensionThe 8th light, is gonna shine bright tonightEverybody hop on the one, the sounds of the twoIt's the third eye vision, five side dimensionThe 8th light, is gonna shine bright tonightIt's the third eye vision, five side dimensionEqualin up to eight, light shine bright
