Astronomy (8th Light)

Against the canvas of the night
 Appears a curious celestial phenomena
 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 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, 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 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 rocking tracks like John Coltrane love Naema
 Like the student love the teacher
 Like the prophet love Khadija
 Like I love my baby features
 Like the creator love all creatures
 Who acknowledge 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 God
 Blacker than the nighttime sky of Bed star in July
 Blacker than the seed in the blackberry pie
 Blacker than the middle of my eye
 Black like Fela man cry
 Some man once asked, "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 not 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 rhyming and rhyming
 We be shining and shining, when we rhyming and rhyming
 Now everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two
 It's the third eye vision, five side dimension
 The eight Light, is gon' 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 living 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 dealing with that black magic
 Try to civilize you
 Not walk on by you
 Like civil-lize 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, 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 eighth light, is gon' shine bright tonight
 Everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two
 It's the third eye vision, five side dimension
 The eighth light, is gon' shine bright tonight
 It's the third eye vision, five side dimension
 Equalling up to eight, light shine bright (this is a black amn right there)