Name: magnetic stripe down
Duration: P00H03M32S
Description: (the narrator goes to work- feeling the seconds of his life being yielded to shallow overseers for a pittance)

magnetic stripe down

from the five shackles by Dharmata 101

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(the narrator goes to work- feeling the seconds of his life being yielded to shallow overseers for a pittance)

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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

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