This song is available on Pierce Freelon's Grammy nominated album Black to the Future.
I can teach you how to fly like an angel
Butterflies in the sky reading rainbow
Close your eyes take flight
Like Levar
Traveling space time
With Levar
Open up a book like flower
Ride it like a boat you can travel
You are your ancestors’ wildest dream
Like Levar
Impossible is not a thing
Ask Levar
Did you know your mind is a muscle
Your body is a shrine and a temple
You are super special
You could learn a skill or a hustle
Earn a dollar bill or a fossil
Archeological
Seek knowledge and understanding
Read everything in the canon
Learn to love and to dream
It’s important
Sincerely
Your uncle
Levar Burton
You taught us how to read
Hymns homonyms
Taught us how to fight
Slavery Romulans
I can teach you how rise like your ancestors
Sankofa look back to find the answers
You are African inside
Like Levar
Look at how we’ve thrived
Ask Levar
On a ?uest(for)Love in a bad spot
Roots kept us grounded in Black Thought
Now Kunta Kinte’s free
Like Levar
He was crowned King Kunta
By Kendrick Lamar
He had a descendent named Uhura
Space is the place where she grew up
She could really listen
Her nephew had amazon grace and wisdom
Blind but he could see it’s not a prison
Cybernetic vision
And if you look back with precision
You could see the depth from which we’ve risen
Blackness is resilient
You are your ancestor’s wildest dream
Like Levar
Impossible is not a thing
Ask Levar
You taught us how to read
Hymns homonyms
Taught us how to fight
Slavery Romulans
Close your eyes take flight
Like Levar
Traveling space time
With Levar
Well I think um
There might be flying cars
I feel like there will be
no gas stations in the future
I think there should be things that like..
Where you can travel to like the
Deepest depths of the ocean and stuff
There’s probably gonna be aliens down there
Something powered by bacteria
And then it turns the bacteria into like
Air or something
Oh that will also help clean the ocean
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