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Artist/Band: Leonard Cohen
Lyrics for Song: God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Leonard Cohen



(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


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Leonard Cohen


Leonard Cohen
"Other Songs - Leonard Cohen"


1. A Thousand Kisses Deep
2. Ain't No Cure For Love
3. Alexandra Leaving
4. Because Of
5. Boogie Street
6. By The Rivers Dark
7. Chelsea Hotel No.2
8. Famous Blue Raincoat
9. First We Take Manhattan
10. Go No More A-Roving
11. Hallelujah (Original)
12. Here It Is
13. Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
14. In My Secret Life
15. Love Itself
16. Lover Lover Lover
17. So Long, Marrianne
18. Stories Of The Street
19. That Don't Make It Junk
20. The Guests
21. The Land Of Plenty
22. The Partisan
23. Waiting For A Miracle
24. Who By Fire
25. Woke Up This Morning
26. Angels Eyes
27. Blessed Is The Memory
28. Clap! Clap!
29. Do I Have To Dance All Night
30. God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot
31. Going Home
32. I've Counted What I Have
33. Misty Blue (Outtake From Recent Songs)
34. Not Known
35. Priests
36. Recitation
37. Since You've Asked
38. Song Of Bernadette
39. Song Of Destruction
40. Song To My Assassin
41. Store Room
42. The Bells
43. The Jungle Line
44. The Marriage March
45. The Promise
46. The Third Invention
47. The Walls
48. Throne Of Desire Variations
49. To Love Somebody
50. Way Down Deep
51. We Told You So
52. Whither Thou Goest (From The Book Of Ruth)
53. Wishing Window