i am the chain

from the five shackles by Dharmata 101

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(the narrator sees the one great attachment to his suffering is himself)

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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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from the five shackles, released April 11, 2013
jsun: vocals, guitars, programming

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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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