So thinking back on it all, it’s like 

It’s a beautiful thing, let’s go 

Yo they can’t take it away 

Form, they can’t take it away 

TobyMac they can’t take it away 

Maj they can’t take it away 

No they can’t take it away 

No they can’t take it away 



It seems I was oblivious to it 

I didn’t see you lurking in the shadows 

One would think the close calls woulda gave you away 

But I was stuck in two feet shallow 

I saw the footprints and then 

Naah, it couldn’t have been him 

I wasn’t the type of cat to pray 

Perhaps I’ll chalk it up as coincidence 

And commence to be my on my way 

What makes a bad boy leave his stash cold turkey 

And make vanity retreat from purple streets 

I guess your rep is really opposite ruthless 

You even walked the windy city with Mr. West it’s like 



Chorus 

What we got (to my people all over the world) 

They can’t take it away 

They can’t take it away 

No way, no way 

(Repeat 1x) 



Some wish to rewind the hands of time 

And erase every mistake made 

Others wish to discover the true meaning of life 

A mystery through out the ages 

Some say that you can’t exist, nah 

How can it be when the very air we breathe 

Is evidence we all have the capacity to believe 

Without seeing a thing 

What made the Passion such a blast 

When so many peers left the theaters on the verge of tears 

May be your story’s not all that impossible 

It’s the fact you bring healing beyond the hospital and that’s why 



So it doesn’t really matter what comes my way 

Here to shake up the world that’s why I pray 

Spread love and let the Son shine bright all day 

They can’t take it away, can’t take it away 

And if my heart beat stops pace tonight 

I’m waking up and staring God in the face alright 

So if you feel me get your hands in outta space so high 

They can’t take it away 



Yo DJ Maj I got your back on this track for fact 

And if it’s me and you or you and me the deck be stack 

So tell me why they gotta try and go and do us like that 

Don’t they know they can’t take it away 

Ain’t no robbing this joy ain’t no stealing this peace 

Ain’t no taking our faith as we drop to our knees 

They can take it all everything we possess 

But they can’t take belief from down deep in our chest I rest 

Our Father who art in heaven 

Hallowed be Thy name 

Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done 

On Earth as it is in heaven 



No Maj (what) they can’t take a thing 

(Sing your song Mac what) 

They can’t take a thing away no 

Africa they can’t take it away 

India they can’t take it away 

Arabia they can’t take it away 

Israel they can’t take it away