White Hammer - Van Der Graaf Generator

In the year 1486, the Malleus first appeared

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 Inquisistion 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 magic 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 spirits override pain

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

And so the craft, yes it 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

And the Black, too, shall bow down to the power above;

Black hate beats Grey

But supreme is

The White Hammer of Love