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

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 pa*sed 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

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

Buffy Sainte-Marie - The Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie

Oct 1990

1. Soulful Shade Of Blue
2. Summer Boy
3. Universal Soldier
4. Better To Find Out For Yourself
5. Cod'ine
6. He's A Keeper Of A Fire
7. Take My Hand For A While
8. Ground Hog
9. The Circle Game
10. My Country 'Tis Of Thy People You're Dying
11. Many A Mile
12. Until It's Time For You To Go
13. Rolling Log Blues
14. God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot
15. Guess Who I Saw In Paris
16. Piney Wood Hills
17. Now That Buffalo's Gone
18. Cripple Creek
19. I'm Gonna Be A Country Girl Again
20. The Vampire
21. Little Wheel Spin And Spin
22. Winter Boy
23. Los Pescadores
24. Sometimes When I Get To Thinkin'