Van Der Graaf Generator - White Hammer lyrics

designed to kill all witchcraft and end the papal fears:

prescribing tortures to kill the Black Arts...

...and the Hammer struck hard.

Malleus Maleficarum slaughtered and tortured

all those under suspicion, as the Inquisition ordered--

burning black hearts and innocents alike, killing the mad

...such was the power the Hammer had.

Though Hexenhammer was intended to slay only evil,

fear and anger against magick overspilled:

they also killed those of the White.

So for two centuries and more they tried to slay

both the Black and the White arts--

but spirit over-rides pain.

For every one the torture took, two were hid secure,

and so the craft endured.

Love and hate lived on in the face of fear,

Hexenhammer's force died,

and the real power became clear:

White Hammer no more is beaten; now it begins to beat,

and the Grey, once oppressor,

now, at good hands, faces defeat.

The Black, too, shall bow down to the power above....

Black hate beats Grey

But supreme is

the White Hammer of Love.

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