Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song God is Alive Magic is Afoot, artist - Buffy Sainte-Marie. Album song The Best Of, in the genre Date of issue: 31.12.1986
Record label: Vanguard
Song language: English
God is Alive Magic is Afoot |
| 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 |