God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot Lyrics

God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot lyrics

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 led.
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.
2..

Magic is afoot.
God rules. 
Alive is afoot. Alive is in command.
Many weak men
hungered
Many strong men thrived
Though they boasted 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 did 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,
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
say who healed
Though mountains danced before them
they said that God was
dead
Though his shrouds were hoisted
the naked God did
live

3...

This I mean to whisper to my mind
This I mean to
laugh with in 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