Cohen Leonard God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot Lyrics

God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot Lyrics

(Lyrics: Cohen, Recorded By Buffy Sainte-Marie)

God is alive, magic is
afoot
God is alive, magic is afoot
God is alive, magic is afoot
God is
afoot, magic is alive
Alive is afoot, magic never died
God never
sickened
Many poor men lied
Many sick men lied
Magic never
weakened
Magic never hid
Magic always ruled
God is afoot, God never
died
God was ruler
Though his funeral lengthened
Though his mourners
thickened
Magic never fled
Though his shrouds were hoisted
The naked
God did live
Though his words were twisted
The naked magic
thrived
Though his death was published
Round and round the world
The
heart did not believe

Many hurt men wondered
Many struck men
bled
Magic never faltered
Magic always lead
Many stones were
rolled
But God would not lie down
Many wild men lied
Many fat men
listened
Though they offered stones
Magic still was fed
Though they
locked their coffers
God was always served
Magic is afoot, God is
alive
Alive is afoot

Alive is in command
Many weak men
hungered
Many strong men thrived
Though they boast of solitude
God was
at their side
Nor the dreamer in his cell
Nor the captain on the
hill
Magic is alive
Though his death was pardoned
Round and round the
world
The heart would not believe

Though laws were carved in
marble
They could not shelter men
Though altars built in
parliaments
They could not order men
Police arrested magic and magic went
with them
Mmmmm.... for magic loves the hungry
But magic would not
tarry
It moves from arm to arm
It would not stay with them
Magic is
afoot
It cannot come to harm
It rests in an empty palm
It spawns in an
empty mind
But magic is no instrument
Magic is the end
Many men drove
magic
But magic stayed behind
Many strong men lied
They only passed
through magic
And out the other side
Many weak men lied
They came to
God in secret
And though they left Him nourished
They would not tell who
healed
Though mountains danced before them
They said that God was
dead
Though his shrouds were hoisted
The naked God did live
This I
mean to whisper to my mind
This I mean to laugh within my mind
This I
mean my mind to serve
Til' service is but magic
Moving through the
world
And mind itself is magic
Coursing through the flesh
And flesh
itself is magic
Dancing on a clock
And time itself
The magic length of
God