White Hammer (2005 Digital Remaster)-Van Der Graaf Generator

[00:25.67]In the year 1486, the Malleus first appeared [00:38.13]Designed to kill all witchcraft and end the papal fears [00:51.37]Prescribing tortures to kill the black arts [01:05.60]And the hammer struck hard [01:11.25]Malleus Maleficarum slaughtered and tortured [01:29.56]All those under suspicion, as the inquisition ordered [01:41.41]Burning black hearts and innocents alike [01:46.84]Killing the mad, such was the power the hammer had [02:02.68]Though Hexenhammer was intended to slay only evil [02:18.22]Fear and anger against magic overspilled [02:23.58]They also killed those of the white [02:31.10]So for two centuries and more they tried to slay [02:46.50]Both the black and the white arts but spirits override pain [02:59.45]For every one that the torture took, two were hid secure [03:12.50]And so the craft, yes, it endured [03:25.39]Love and hate lived on in the face of fear [03:34.85]Hexenhammer's force died [03:39.45]And the real power became clear [03:50.94]White Hammer no more is beaten, now it begins to beat [04:02.82]And the gray, once oppressor now at good hands, faces defeat [04:16.13]And the black, too, shall bow down to the power above [04:29.24]Black hate beats gray but supreme is [04:39.66]The white hammer of love, the white hammer of love