Astronomy (8th Light) [feat. Weldon Irvine]

Against the canvas of the night

Appears a curious, celestial phenomena

Called a Black Star, but what is it?

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 that-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 cross-hairs, Blacker than my granddaddy armchair

He never really got no time to chill there

'Cause his life was warfare

See, on the front lines, the 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 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, targeting 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 till 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 wanna 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 till 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 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 8th Light is gonna shine bright tonight

It's the third eye vision, five side dimension

You know the light come 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 Sybil, 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 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