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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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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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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 shining 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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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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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 cross hairs
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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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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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Like the student love the teacher
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Like the prophet love Khadeja
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Like I love my baby features
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Like the creator love all creatures
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Who acknowledge truth and peace seekers
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We on point like heat seekers
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Targeting the black marketing strategists
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Run up on em with the heaters
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Everybody following with no leaders
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Feeling like we killing 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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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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You know who else is a Black Star? (Who?) Me
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You know who else is a Black Star? (Who?) Me
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You know who else is a Black Star, who we? (And we)
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Be shining and shining, when we rhyming and rhyming
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We be shining and shining, when we rhyming and rhyming
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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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You know the light
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Go from the dark
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The other way is ass-backwards
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It's absurd
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Make you want to crow like a blackbird
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That's right
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You living from your first day to your last night
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Sometimes you show your ass like
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Lint on your clothes
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When you froze in
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The black light
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Dead that
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Before you get your head wrapped
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Like Badu
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We see through your voodoo
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Just like Eve's Bayou, you dealing with that black magic
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Try to civilize you
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Not walk on by you
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Like civil-(lies do get you black listed) it'll
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Be unlucky for you like a black cat
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A panther
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Revolution is the answer
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That's what we need
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Greed plague my people like the cancer
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True indeed
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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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Equaling up to eight, light shine bright
Black Star - Respiration ft. Common
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