JAMWARE RECORDS · TRANSMISSION LOG
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JW-013 · THE METER’S ALWAYS RUNNING
HADAL STATIC · SINGLE · METAL
RELEASE 18.08.2026 · 1 TRACK · 4:06
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01 · THE METER’S ALWAYS RUNNING (4:06)
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Lift and shift, they said it’d be a breeze,
Opex over capex, sign it if you please,
Three years later there’s a line item zoo,
Sixty services billing, we use twenty-two.

Autoscale’s a lovely word,
Till the scale goes only up.

The meter’s always running, soft and low,
A dollar for the data walking out the door,
Nobody remembers what that bucket holds,
But we’ve been paying rent on it since twenty-four,
They sold us all the sky by the hour,
Now the sky sends invoices to the floor.

Found a dev environment from twenty-three,
Running hot on premium SSD,
Snapshots of snapshots, orphaned and unowned,
A small nation’s GDP in storage cold.

Autoscale’s a lovely word,
Till the scale goes only up.

The meter’s always running, soft and low,
A dollar for the data walking out the door,
Nobody remembers what that bucket holds,
But we’ve been paying rent on it since twenty-four,
They sold us all the sky by the hour,
Now the sky sends invoices to the floor.

I’m not against the cloud, it earns its keep,
For the bursty and the spiky it’s a dream,
But somebody has to watch the taxi meter tick,
Counting every second like a scheme.

The meter’s always running, soft and low,
A dollar for the data walking out the door,
Nobody remembers what that bucket holds,
But we’ve been paying rent on it since twenty-four,
They sold us all the sky by the hour,
Now the sky sends invoices to the floor.

The meter never sleeps... and nor do I.

Decoded at the plant. Music, manufactured.