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    "Unfinished Business"genre: Alternative Hip Hop
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    Title Track of the new record. Aggro Punk / Industrial - tinged hip hop.
    CD: Unfinished Business   Label: DSBP
    Credits: Written and Produced by D Madden

    Story Behind the Song
    Penal Colony hadn't put out a record in 8 years, and I'd always felt that there was a lot more to explore artistically with the band, ergo the title of the song and the album. Song's mostly a comment on the ills of overindulgence and excess, and a debunking of the notion that those things are required to make great art. written on a train in Portland, OR. Took a week or so to record, was one of the harder ones to mix.

    Lyrics
    gavel hits the stone
    another day in the cell
    I got stripped of my car
    I'm in prisoner's orange
    should have got possession
    eighty times over
    I should have been dead
    like the Poe or the Buk
    no crime was committed
    just a victim of commerce, and
    O.C. POVERTY
    it's no fallacy
    seems like I've been in and out
    more times than I can count
    sitting in O.C.J.
    get out tomorrow on own recog
    I got no one to blame but me
    chasing the dragon
    will get you all dead or in here
    been 2 X 3 years
    since the road to ruin
    understand I hid
    just to get my dome movin'
    swam against a tide of origami
    smoking men
    boilermakers

    The scientist said
    things would be different now;
    still
    I'm convulsing in ER
    with my head
    and my chin strapped down
    contemplating my...

    unfinished business
    unfinished business
    unfinished business
    "why'd you walk away?"
    who could ever believe this

    unfinished business
    unfinished business
    unfinished business
    dealing with the lie
    straight rose to the surface

    figured it all lies
    the biggest human tragedy
    disorientation = creation
    NEVER!
    IT'S THE HIPPIE'S LIFESTYLE!
    COURTESY OF
    THE CIA
    THE FBI
    THE FDA

    want to suck
    on the seed of the man
    go right ahead
    I've done my time
    no interest in that thread
    we all want what we don't have
    never seem to like what we do
    a thread
    no different
    than a super bowl commercial
    IT MADE ME GO AWAY
    it's what made me

    hurt
    rob
    steal
    betray

    I'm done being that tumor
    I'm done being that tumor
    no way
    no way

    "take this pill
    and the voices will go away,
    it might make you a robot
    but isn't everybody else?"

    fighting to get to my

    unfinished business
    unfinished business
    unfinished business
    addressing all the disses
    with the voice of a Beckmann

    unfinished business
    unfinished business
    unfinished business
    adrenalized by nature
    time has come to rescind this

    unfinished business
    unfinished business
    unfinished business
    "why'd you walk away?"
    who could ever believe this

    unfinished business
    unfinished business
    unfinished business
    dealing with the lie
    straight rose to the surface

    unfinished business
    unfinished business
    unfinished business
    addressing all the disses
    with the voice of a Beckmann

    unfinished business
    unfinished business
    unfinished business
    adrenalized by nature
    time has come to rescind this

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