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Grist for the Mill

from Chasing Down Wolves by Matt Steady

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lyrics

You take our crops, and they burn our fields
You take the tithe and they loot the coin
You took our sons and you marched them to war
They took our daughters and sold them as slaves
You’re all living for power, for wealth and a name
We’re just trying to live
We’re just grist for the mill

Grist for the mill
‘Tween the hammer and the cross
The river keeps running
The wheel keeps on turning
The mill-stones keep grinding us down
We’re just grist for the mill

Don’t care much for kings, for priests or for lords
Don’t care who takes when there’s none left to give
You want our loyalty but what does that mean
When there’s been no harvest and no planting of seed
Hunger’s our enemy, a fight to the death
Without mercy or recourse or plea
We’re just grist for the mill

Grist for the mill
‘Tween the hammer and the cross
The river keeps running
The wheel keeps on turning
The mill-stones keep grinding us down
We’re just grist for the mill

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from Chasing Down Wolves, released January 21, 2020
John Reed guests on cittern

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