Astronomy (8th Light) - Black Star

Written by：Weldon Irvine

Against the canvas of the night

Appears a curious celestial phenomenon

Black people unite and let's all get down

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 shining from very far to where you are

It is commonplace and different

Intimate and distant

Fresher than an infant

Black my family thick like black strap molasses

Star on the rise in the eyes of the masses

Black is the color of my true love's hair

Stars are bright shining 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 belly that 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 rocking tracks like John Coltrane love Naima

Like the student love the teacher

Like the prophet love Khadija

Like I love my baby features

Like the creator love all creatures

Who are knowledge truth and peace seekers

We on point like heat seekers

Targetting the black marketing strategists

Run up on 'em with the heaters

Everybody following with no leaders

Feeling like we killing 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 die

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 Fela 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 mountain top 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 shining and shining when we rhymin and rhymin

We be shining and shining 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 a**-backwards

It's absurd

Make you wanna crow like a blackbird

That's right

You living from your first day to your last night

Sometimes you show your a** 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 dealing with that black magic

Try to civilize you

Not walk on by you

Like Sybillies 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 my people like the cancer

True indeed

Now black people unite and 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

Equaling up to eight light shine bright