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Astronomy (8th Light)
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Mos Def
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[Mos Def]
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Against the canvas of the night
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Appears a curious celestial phenomena
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called Black Star, but what is it?
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[Talib Kweli]
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Black people unite and let's all get down
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We got to have what? We got to have that love
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[Mos Def]
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What is the Black Star?
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Is it the cat with the black shades, the black car?
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Is it shinin from very far, to where you are?
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It is commonplace and different
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Intimate and distant
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Fresher than an infant
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[Talib Kweli]
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Black, my family thick, like they're striped molasses
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Star, on the rise, in the eyes of the masses
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Black is the color of my true love's hair
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Star's are bright, shining, hot balls of air
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[Mos Def]
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Black like my baby girl's stare
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Black like the veil that the muslimina wear
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Black like the planet that they fear, why they scared?
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Black like the slave ship that later brought us here
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Black like the cheeks that are roadways for tears
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that leave black faces well traveled with years
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Black like assassin crosshairs
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Blacker than my granddaddy armchair
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He never really got no time to chill there
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Cause this life is warfare, warfare
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[Talib Kweli]
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Deep on the front lines, and blacks is all there
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Black like the perception of who, on welfare
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Black like faces at the bottom of the well
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I've been there before
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To bring the light and heat it up like "la cocina"
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Make without imagine happen but maybe I'm just a dreamer
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I love rockin tracks like John Coltrane love Naema
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[M] Like the student love the teacher
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[T] Like the prophet love Khadeja
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[M] Like I love my baby features
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[A] Like the creator love all creatures
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[Talib Kweli]
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Who acknowledge truth and peace seekers
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We on point like heat seekers
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Targettin the black marketing strategists
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Run up on em with the heaters
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Everybody followin with no leaders
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Feelin like we killin ourselves
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because I know they can't defeat us
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It don't stop til we complete this, keep this fly
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There's so much to life when you just stay Black and God
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[Mos Def]
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Blacker than the nighttime sky of Bed-Stuy in July
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Blacker than the seed in the blackberry pie
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Blacker than the middle of my eye
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Black like feh-lah man cry
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Some man wan ask "Who am I?"
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I simply reply, "The U.N.I., V.E.R.S.A.L. Magnetic"
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Work to respect the angelic, climb the mountaintop
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and tell it til the valley's enveloped
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You're full of big chat but you nah know me
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I'm dark like the side of the moon you don't see
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when the moon shine newly
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[M] You know who else is a Black Star? (Who?) Me
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[T] You know who else is a Black Star? (Who?) Me
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[A] You know who else is a Black Star, who we? (And we)
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[A] be shinin and shinin, when we rhymin and rhymin
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We be shinin and shinin, when we rhymin and rhymin
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[Mos Def]
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Now everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two
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It's the third eye vision, five side dimension
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The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright tonight
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It's the third eye vision, five side dimension
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[T] You know the light
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[M] Go from the dark
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[T] The other way is ass-backwards
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[M] It's absurd
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[T] Make you wanna crow like a blackbird
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[M] That's right
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[T] You livin from your first day to your last night
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[T] Sometimes you show your ass like
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[M] Lint on your clothes
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[T] When you froze in
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[A] THE BLACK LIGHT
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[M] Dead that
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[T] Before you get your head wrapped
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[M] Like Badu
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[T] We see through your voodoo
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[T] Just like Eve's Bayou, you dealin with that black magic
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[M] Try to civilize you
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[T] Not walk on by you
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[M] Like civil-(lies do get you black listed) it'll
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[T] Be unlucky for you like a black cat
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[M] A panther
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[T] Revolution is the answer
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[M] That's what we need
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[T] Greed plague my people like the cancer
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[M] True indeed
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[Mos Def]
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Now black people unite, and let's ALL GET DOWN
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Now everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two
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It's the third eye vision, five side dimension
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The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright tonight
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Everybody hop on the one, the sounds of the two
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It's the third eye vision, five side dimension
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The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright tonight
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It's the third eye vision, five side dimension
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Equalin up to eight, light shine bright
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