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The Red Shield

from Winter Passing by Jonny Miller

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I bear the red shield and I rule the blue world
I dwell in a castle you built with your toil
My hand holds five arrows ever hungry for war
I make the rich richer, and I slaughter the poor

Spend, spend
Your poor soul is mine,
For I choose who lives and I decide who dies
Spend, spend
Your poor soul is mine
For you owe all your life, and you’ll owe when die.

The law is my left hand, the politician, my right;
I can sneak in your house in the still of the night.
Though your children are ill, and your family is starving;
I will tax all your income and reserve half your earnings.

I create money right out of thin air
I snap two fingers and it’s suddenly there
I lower the interest so you’ll sign a loan
Then I erratically raise it and foreclose your home

I make you believe in titles and countries;
I fashion dissension with borders and boundaries
My eye is all seeing while I seek to blindfold you
By stirring confusion I sully all that is true.

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from Winter Passing, released November 15, 2013

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Jonny Miller Riverside, California

A free-thinking artist with a passion for wonder, Miller has a voice that is uniquely rich & reminiscent of America’s vast legacy of Folk singers. His acoustic guitar establishes a core of authenticity in all his compositions which are fortified by colorful harmonica solos. His verses tell of anxiety & depression, anger toward social injustice & organized religion, and a profound love of nature. ... more

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