00:00I've been torn from the desert, dragged over the sea
00:05Chain on my body, but my soul's still free
00:10They took away my prayer, and they beat me down cruel
00:14Tried to break my faith, make me forget the golden rule
00:20Oh Lord, I got the blues, the stolen faith blues so deep
00:26Crying to the sky, my ancestor's soul's to keep
00:37My mamma smiled, my prayed in wool, looked under midnight sky
00:57Whispering Allahu Akbar, why no overseer's eye
01:03By day they called me slave, gave me some stranger's name
01:10But I remember Musa, who stood up to Pharaoh's gang
01:16They can whip my back, Lord, and scar me through and through
01:22But they can't strip away these stolen faith blues
01:26You can steal my body, you can burn my prayer
01:33Silence my tongue, put a cross in my hand
01:39Oh but listen, there's a light inside me that no less can kill
01:46It's the love of Rasulala, and I feel it burning still
01:52From the land of the Lord, to these Carolina hues
01:58We're still singing ash, hard one, la, ee la, ha, ee la, la
02:03In these stolen faith blues
02:06They painted the prophets to look nothing like me
02:16Gave Isa blue eyes on my church fan for me to see
02:23But my heart, it knew better
02:26Truth cut clean through the lies
02:29Cause Musa was dark-skinned
02:31Had the strength of ten lions alive
02:34Miriam's baby boy, Isa, was a brown-skinned Jew
02:41So I ain't bowing to no false image
02:44I want the true message too
02:47Devil in the cotton field said forget who you are
02:52Forget who you are
02:54With angels in my heart, kept faith, store ajar
02:58From Timbuktu to Savannah, we carried the nur all along
03:05Now the spirits of my father's got me singing this song
03:11You can change my name
03:17You can shackle my hands
03:20Make me kneel to your king
03:23In these strange new lands
03:25In these strange new lands
03:25But our last 99 names still beating my breast
03:33And the love of Mohammed, Isa, la, lo, alayhi wa salle
03:38Let my soul rest
03:39No, you can't steal my heartbeat
03:42Or the truth of my muse
03:45He cries la, elaha, elaha, la
03:49Through these stolen faith blues
03:53Now generations later
04:00I hear grandpa's hidden song
04:03He was humming, subhanallah
04:06When the nights were long
04:09I feel the people of God's beloved smile
04:13Shining in my dark eyes
04:16That's Rasulullah's heritage
04:19The promise they couldn't disguise
04:22From the soil of Medina
04:25To the fields where we'd weep
04:28We found our way home
04:30What was sown we shall reap
04:34I had the stolen faith blues
04:37But those blues made me strong
04:40Turned my pain into prayer
04:43And my sorrow to song
04:46Through mercy and patience
04:49I paid my dues
04:53Now Allah's grace
04:55Guides me out of these blues
04:59Oh Lord of the worlds
05:02Let my children never lose
05:05The faith that was stolen
05:08In those long ago blues
05:14The truth is
05:19The truth is
05:21So many men never lose
05:23And they've lost
05:23And they've lost
05:24The truth is
05:24The truth is
05:26And they've lost
05:27You
