Chords for Mos Def -1998 -Mos Def & Talib Kweli - Astronomy (8th Light)

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_ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ 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.
[B] Black, my fins look thick like [F] that strapped [C#] molasses.
[F#] Star on the rise in the [Bm] eyes of the [C#] masses.
Black is the [F#m] color of my [E] true love's hair.
Stars and pearls shining in [C#m] hot balls of air.
[F] Black like my [C#m] 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 they brought us [A] here.
Black like the cheeks that a rule waits for tears.
The need black faces, well traveled with years.
Black like assassin crawfish.
[C#] Blacker than my granddaddy armchair.
He never really got no time to [G#m] chill there, because his life was wolfmail.
Z [F#m] on the front, eyes of blacks, it's all there.
[C#m] Black like the perception of who I welfare.
Black like faces at the bottom of [F#] the well.
I've been there before to bring the light and heat it up like La Cocina.
Make what I imagine happen, but maybe I'm just a dreamer.
I love rock and crack like John Coltrane loved Naima.
Like the school that loved the teacher.
Like the prophet loved [A] Kadesha.
Like I love my baby's features.
Like [E] the creator loved all creatures.
Who acknowledge truth and peace seekers.
We [G#] on point like heat seekers.
[D#m] Targeting the black [E] marketing strategists.
Run [D#m] up on them with [F#m] the heaters.
[C#] Everybody following with no leaders.
[D] Feeling like we killing [Em] ourselves, because I know they can't [Bm] defeat us.
It [C#] don't stop till we complete this.
[B] Keep this fly.
There's so much [D#m] to life when you just stay black like God.
Blacker than [C#m] the nighttime sky.
I best start in July.
Blacker than the seed in the [D] blackberry pod.
Blacker than the middle of my eye.
Black like Fela [C#m] Manco.
It's a man one, I, Sue, [A] and I.
I simply reply the U and I.
B-E-R-S-A-L.
Magnetic.
Work to respect the angelic.
I'm the mountain top and tell it to the valleys [D#m] and valley.
You're full of big tat, but you're not on me.
I'm dark like the side of the moon.
You [C#m] don't see when the moon shine newly.
You know who else is a black star?
Who?
Me.
You know who else [D#m] is a black star?
Who?
Me.
You know who else is a black star?
Who?
Me.
And we [C#m] be shining and shining.
We'll be rhyming and rapping.
We [B] be shining and shining.
We'll be rhyming and rapping.
And everybody hop on [G#] one.
The sounds of the two is the third eye vision.
Five side division.
The eighth light is [C#m] going to shine bright tonight.
[B] It's the third eye vision.
[A] Five side division.
You know the light come [B] from the dark.
The other way is [F#] backwards.
Absurd.
Make [Dm] you want to crow like a blackbird.
That's right.
Living from your first day [C#m] to your last night.
Sometimes you show your ass like.
Lint on your clothes.
When you frozen.
Black light.
Dead, dead.
Before you get your head wrapped.
Like Bado.
We see [D] through you, fool.
Do just like E.
By you, you dealing with black magic.
Try to civilize you.
Not [C#] walk on by you. Like Sybil.
Lies do get you blacklisted.
Being lucky for you like a black cat.
A panther.
Revolution is the answer.
That's what we need.
Greed like my people like [F#] a cancer.
Sure indeed.
[B] The black people unite.
Let's all get down.
Everybody hop on the one.
The sounds of the two [C#m] is the third eye vision.
Five side division.
The eighth light is going to shine bright tonight.
[G#m] Everybody hop on the one.
The sounds of the two is the third eye vision.
Five side division.
The [F#m] eighth light is going to shine bright tonight.
It's the third eye vision.
Five [D] side [C#] division.
Equal it up to eight [B] light shine [E] bright.
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