Against the of the night Appears a curious celestial Called Black Star, but is it?
Black unite and let's all get down We got to have what? We got to have love
What is the Star? Is it the cat with the black shades, the black Is it from very far, to where you are? It is commonplace and and distant Fresher an infant
Black, my family thick, like striped molasses Star, on the rise, in the of the masses Black is the color of my love's hair are bright, shining, hot balls of air
Black like my girl's stare Black the veil that the muslimina wear like the planet that they fear, why they scared? Black like the slave ship that brought us here Black the cheeks that are roadways for tears That leave faces well traveled with years Black like cross hairs Blacker than my armchair He really got no time to chill there Cause life is warfare, warfare
on the front lines, and blacks is all there Black like the of who, on welfare Black faces at the bottom of the well I've there before To the light and heat it up like "la cocina" Make imagine happen but maybe I'm just a dreamer I love rockin tracks like John Coltrane love
Like the student the teacher Like the prophet Khadeja Like I love my features the creator love all creatures
Who acknowledge truth and peace We on like heat seekers the black marketing strategists Run up on em with the Everybody following no leaders Feeling like we ourselves Because I know they can't us It don't stop til we this, keep this fly There's so much to life you just stay Black and God
Blacker than the nighttime sky of in July Blacker than the seed in the pie than the middle of my eye Black like man cry man wan ask "Who am I?" I reply, "The U.N.I., V.E.R.S.A.L. Magnetic" Work to respect the angelic, climb the And it til the valley's enveloped full of big chat but you nah know me I'm dark the side of the moon you don't see When the moon newly
You know who is a Black Star? (Who?) Me You know who else is a Star? (Who?) Me You who else is a Black Star, who we? (And we) Be shining and shining, when we and rhyming We be and shining, when we rhyming and rhyming
Now everybody hop on the one, the of the two It's the eye vision, five side dimension The 8th Light, is gonna bright tonight It's the third eye vision, side dimension
You know the Go the dark The way is ass-backwards It's you want to crow like a blackbird That's You living from first day to your last night Sometimes you your ass like on your clothes When you in The light that Before you get your head Badu We see your voodoo Just like Eve's Bayou, you dealing that black magic Try to you Not on by you civil-(lies do get you black listed) it'll Be unlucky for you like a cat A is the answer That's we need Greed plague my like the cancer indeed
Now people unite, and let's all get down Now hop on the one, the sounds of the two It's the third eye vision, five dimension The 8th Light, is gonna bright tonight hop on the one, the sounds of the two It's the third eye vision, five dimension The 8th Light, is gonna shine bright It's the third eye vision, side dimension Equaling up to eight, shine bright