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Lyrics by Adley Penner & Craig Miller account frustrating experiences with the Department of Motor Vehicles.

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I’m an emotional timebomb. In any moment I’ll tick. Cuz if you give me the runaround I’m gonna lose my sense/grip. Throwin’ it back, the emotional frustration’s keeping us incarcerated cuz the law & the courthouse & the DMV are the key ingredients to drivin’ me crazy. Do I keep myself calm and collect like a detective? As long as Bureau rules we’ll always stay defective. “Judgement! I cast judgement on thee, just tell me your plee innocent or guilty and we’ll see what kind of loopholes we can buy with money. Nevermind police entrapment, cuz I know you’re a delinquent.” Magna Carta, 5th amendment, monition, lump sum settlement. This law is mumbo jumbo and you’re telling me its relevant? Somehow just for the hell of it I’m the arraigned defendant. The judge reads the verdict and I owe to the government. Give me some hope! I’m a victim of the law and I’m a victim of the judge, I’m a victim of the cop, subjected to his malfeasance. I’m a victim of the lineup, everybody’s gettin’ tied up , have to take the time off work because the courts are backed up. I must avoid the DMV, don’t share the road with DPT and spare myself from apathy, the courts don’t work efficiently. Listen to my voice right now, I’m gettin’ all worked up inside, too much judge and too much laws have now abused my mind! The Law in the courthouse and the DMV are the key ingredients to drivin me crazy. // I can safely say that I was sane til the DMV. I hate to blame, but my brain in that same space so long the Game got the best of me. Easily 3 hours til they called my name. At last I would speak with a person. the man spoke as if he’d been rehearsin his words and gotten meaner in the act. His demeanor was very matter-of-fact. I coulda snapped, my anger already filled the room. The workers done gone got gone immune. Talk about desensitized, when I looked into his eyes I swear it was a robot in disguise. But my pity was pretty short-lived when his final words were I’d have to give money to judge. Luckily I grew up in the church cuz my next word was “fuuuuuuuuuuuuuudge.” “It was a fine, had slipped my mind. Please don’t make me come back here another time,” I pleaded & begged, got down on the knee of my leg. Emotionless, he shook his head. “Pay your fine next time” is all he said. Stay strong, stay calm, try picturing a palm tree or the Caribbean Sea. Nope, it won’t work for me, it’s comin on, I’m goin crazy. I can’t pay that fine til my boss pays me, and he’s gone indefinitely...“Order in the court!!” I need some hope, the System’s gettin me down, I need some hope!

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from My piano ate the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle, released April 3, 2010
Written and performed by Antioquia (Paul Martin, Craig Miller, Maddy Streicek & Adley Penner) with guest percussionist Ben Isaacs.

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Antioquia [an-tee-OH-kee-ah] plays music. The music they play comes from the universe. It is filtered through progressive rock, funk, hip-hop, traditional rhythms from Latin America and West Africa, and pretty much anything they hear and see and feel. And smell. And taste. The band began in Antioquia, Colombia and was incubated in San Francisco. They continue to grow wings in Oakland, CA. ... more

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