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the five shackles

by Dharmata 101

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Daniel Tase Hayden Dharmata 101 continues to bring a cinematic and conceptual take to industrial rock... kind of like if Repo! the Genetic Opera was rewritten by Gary Numan. Bonus points for the digi-funk and WWW 2.0 nostalgia feels of emoticon! Favorite track: beautiful.
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1.
mile one 04:56
early morning, 5 a.m., sky bereft of light instinct is telling my body to rise & i try with all my might gravity & apathy weighs this old body down decades of years & too many tears make me feel every pound and if there's many more days to face i pray that won't always be the case until that long walk is complete the journey begins beneath these feet a dreg in the shower at this early hour, there's something quite awry i want to seethe with anger- but all i can do is cry i remember when each new day was a gift; potential was my middle name but time slipped by & i now know why i've no one but myself to blame tomorrow might bring a smile to my face and i pray that just might be the case it could bring either rapture or defeat and the journey begins beneath these feet
2.
magnetic stripe down, the cruelest of vice equalizer of both men & mice i'm told the toil it licks my skin & the hunger grows deeper within trigger the clock to mark me at bay ready to lose my life in r'echauffe the cancer in me grows as money comes and money goes tarring my lungs blacker by the hour, the thirst for life is lost to power they pull my strings if to cease my dream- just to make me a cogwheel in their machine magnetic stripe down, i'm taught to lose just another white soul taught to sing the blues in five part timbre match- and yet there's still this itch to scratch defiling my sense of right & wrong imbued into this dissonant song enslaved ever by the wage- and yet this bird croons in its cage tarring my lungs blacker by the hour, the thirst for life is lost to power they pull my strings if to cease my dream- just to make me a cogwheel in their machine magnetic stripe down, you've stolen my will like a jesus hidden in the dollar bill their faces stern on the wrinkled green- my hunger fed, their slates wiped clean coin of the realm is my faceless muse she brings me debasement & self-abuse of self-control i am bereft; my hunger all that i have left
3.
O2 03:38
daylight fades away as the violent night descends restless in my skin, no sleep tonight- i torch the candle at both ends will i ride on white horses or trip fantastic light? cannot place a wager, anything goes- all bets are off tonight it's time to breathe severing the tendrils to this idiosyncratic routine running off the fumes that's left inside this 80 proof powered machine 140 beats per minute, the fierce rhythm's alive; the universe in motion to these senses five and it's not getting any slower until this wretched body dies it's time to breathe losing all my logic, the soul begins to posit when the air comes rushing in instinct is the rule and nothing's left to school me but this flow of oxygen substance & libido is all it seems that we know but as much as i want to leave the addiction's taken hold, the future has been sold- and all there's left to do is breathe it's time to breathe
4.
emoticon 04:50
i hear your breath upon the wireless stream, a lost sheep inside my android's dream obscured behind lines that oft mislead, i play the game that i cannot concede hunting you behind a friendly guise- my voice in font, my image pixelized in this place where no one hears you shout i'll turn your very life inside out your false emotion burns inside for the stranger in whom you confide all you think is real you're playing right into my hand following my wanton demand in control behind the wheel- close your mind and show me how you feel the game goes on you hang upon my words- hypnotized by my digital curse in this place the pain begins to soothe; too far gone to ever know the truth ensnared you grow into my white lies, months shall pass until you realize you're but a pawn in a perverse game of chance; manipulated into a romance your false emotion burns inside for the stranger in whom you confide all you think is real you're playing right into my hand following my wanton demand in control behind the wheel- close your mind and show me how you feel night after night i find new prey to hang onto all that i say too much suffering for which i can't atone; i'm condemned to spend my many days alone...
5.
beautiful 11:03
immaculately weak, this blueprint for decay etched in the setting sun of this my darkest day impeccably flawed- enslaving all in my eyes to lifting this fractured mass; immense in alll its lies monumental and divine- a legend inside my own mind a visage no one cares to see erected on fragile ground, its foundation sinking down into the earth's great cavity i can be beautiful to no one else but me breathtakingly dessicated, features worn into mar a blight upon the skyline- an unsutured living scar painstakingly imperfect, a wretched ode to hate infectious in all its meaning- its message always to perpetuate monumental and divine- a legend inside my own mind a visage no one cares to see erected on fragile ground, its foundation sinking down into the earth's great cavity i can be beautiful to no one else but me the only hope there's left to pray is that the earth will give way- abandoning me in the dark that there is no evidence of this being bereft of sense- that there is no discerned mark forgotten in the void of time to leave a changed world sublime, free from my vitrolic sin perhaps then i can repent beneath the cleansing sediment- i can mindfully begin again....
6.
emancip8 05:46
i look toward the eastern sun, illuminating a mind trapped in things both great & small this new dawn ever radiant, illustrating the pride that came before the fall and it might take time to notice the jewel inside the lotus that in all things the dharma permeates that our pain can be abated, our inner peace created that love is now, and transcension awaits... in broader strokes of selfless thought, the insight manifests that all roads lead to here an ego anchored me to trappings i did not need; that illusion defined my world for many years and it might take time to notice the jewel inside the lotus that in all things the dharma permeates that our pain can be abated, our inner peace created that love is now, and transcension awaits... emancipate me from bondage, let these fetters cease to be let all this conscious consumed dispel the myth that once was me aware of all things in a nowness provident a nature once lay dormant now rises sentient and it might take time to notice the jewel inside the lotus that in all things the dharma permeates that our pain can be abated, our inner peace created that love is now, and transcension awaits...
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8.
hello cruel world i now can see your colors true i see them white red black & blue & every hue in between they spin the ancient yarn of things oft meant to disarm me when those charming chromas lose their sheen hello cruel i now can see through your white lies demanding that i compromise all i've apprised in my mind you'd prefer i lose sight of that which makes me erudite the inner light until i'm stricken blind and when the blue sky bleeds to gray, my inner sun will light the way and though adversity reigns king, one can find truth in everything our daily lives may seem unfair, with crosses too ponderous to bear through eyes of equanimity- this cruel world sits right with me hello cruel world i see you want to tear me down to make me fall & break my crown & drown me in seas of travail you seem to overlook the fact that i did write the book on what it took to hold my breath til pale hello cruel world your story's got too many holes too much science & miracles- tries to console me but it fails you think i'd want to buy all your conjectured alibis oh my how that ship has since sailed... and when the blue sky bleeds to gray, my inner sun will light the way and though adversity reigns king, one can find truth in everything our daily lives may seem unfair, with crosses too ponderous to bear through eyes of equanimity- this cruel world sits right with me
9.
the complication has grown from roots inside many idiosyncracies greet me with arms open wide between us all a suchness; a refuge from the commotion tranquility defined- dada in motion tune out the dischord that bleeds our souls dry join the aggregation- become greater than i a simian hand grasps tightly onto thoughts in a cascade breathe in the air & watch the distress fade finally you've found the source of all devotion the stillness ever moving- dada in motion tune out the dischord that bleeds our souls dry join the aggregation- become greater than i om ma hung benza guru pema siddhi hung
10.
the road to hell paved with good intention straight up this back and through these eyes there's nothing left but for you to question are these the truths left when doubt dies? making light of the grounds of your conviction fraught with rabbit holes that go nowhere they hold no anchor to your selfless benediction there is no refuge for your despair and where's the void whence comes this voice? that blights the righteousness of choice what begs this human to become apostate what brings on this suffering- what brings on this hate? undermined over matter trapped inside this oubliette of matter your focused vision blurred beyond the pale without direction your thoughts start to scatter undermined to no avail the seeds of doubt are sewn behind your eyes in the fertilest of lands your mindful nature is paralyzed your resolve yields to my demands and where's the void whence comes this voice? that blights the righteousness of choice what begs this human to become apostate what brings on this suffering- that fills me full of hate?
11.
mine eyes are a mother nursing its delicate stillborn my tongue is a dead rose which shall never lose its thorn my voice resonating in a key that none can hear my flesh & bones decaying after all these myriad years the lies forgotten by a vision deceptive aftertaste washed away by the hope it couldn't give scent of pungence tangled with a desperate cry arms feel outward towards an unsympathetic sky in the hallowed bereft i see no blinding dull no cacophonic outburst, no abrasion tangible pheremone a memory, fierce hunger never found no five shackles left to hold my conscious down when the passage of time swells shut i'll return to the earth from whence i came to be the breath of life into all things that will echo my name as corruption disintegrates, revealed is the lusted key the shackles shall be open, and my soul will understand what it means to be free...
12.
seen so many things behind these eyes so far i've traveled yet a stone's throw from paradise just want different windows to see things though the one perspective i'm missing is that from you hearing riddles and speaking in tongues- feeling everything coming undone those restless days and hours serene- all fallacies witness in this machine just a body to pilot, a pound of flesh- seems quite the bargain but there is a catch know the boundaries of that which constrains- the senses are my shackles, but i am the chain! i only see things that break & decay so connected and yet so far away jaded past reason since we started this game when this all began we thought exactly the same! hearing riddles and speaking in tongues- feeling everything coming undone those restless days and hours serene- all fallacies witness in this machine just a body to pilot, a pound of flesh- seems quite the bargain but there is a catch know the boundaries of that which constrains- the senses are my shackles, but i am the chain!

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A musical journey into one mans suffering & liberation

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released April 11, 2013

all songs written by jsun lhundub dorti bruner
produced by jldb
engineered by jldb
dharmata 101 is jldb, alacia wright, and hemlock

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Dharmata 101 Baltimore, Maryland

Dharmata 101 was formed in 1997 by frontman/composer JSun Bruner, after dissolving his prior project- which was a psychedelic folk project involving programmed rhythms called Mellow No. 5. The project was originally put together as a large deviation from the sappy, light-hearted work of Mellow No. 5 in the interest of making more lyric-driven music. ... more

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