Steemit Open Mic #67 // Original Song // Dandelion Lakewood - The Dividends (Bairro Alto, Portugal)

Bom dia from Portugal, Steemians!

I guess it’s time to share my submission to Open Mic #67 (a prime number). I already saw some good work by @ivan.atman and @isaria, and my Scottish buddy @kiloindigo, so go show them some love, it’s how we do.

Here’s an old tune of mine from around 2007, when the #banksters decided to give us a regular folk a reason to invent #cryptocurrency. I had just gotten laid off from my first and only “real” corporate job at a subprime mortgage company. I knew they were fishy when I took the job, but didn’t care because $.

I made this video specially for Steemit Open Mic #67. Enjoy! Thanks to @luzcypher and @pfunk as always. Be sure to vote @pfunk as a witness to keep this show rollin along.

The Dividends

I knock down blocks just to
build them back up,
it don’t matter if
somebody underneath
them gets crushed.

I sell slingshots to the
kids on both sides of the
tracks to keep them in a
perpetual fight.

Oh it just makes sense
to keep our enemies incensed
and drain our tax dollars into defense
so that the dividends are dispensed

When the armies and the
leaders and the contractors conspire
they have the power to
acquire whatever they desire.

When the dollar is
dependent on the
price of energy we have to
threaten our suppliers to
protect the currency.

Oh it just makes sense
to keep our enemies incensed
and drain our tax dollars into defense
so that the dividends are dispensed

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