Your Epitaph: India's First and Only Anthem for the IT Developer

The Developer Anthem "Your Epitaph", India's first and only anthem for the IT developer, is commisioned by Saltmarch March Media and composed and sung by Mother Jane. Motherjane, formed in 1996, is a 5 piece Indian rock/metal act whose music style flows with the melody of rural India, seethes with the band’s raw agression and is inlaid with lyrics of exquisite insight. This video, recorded at the Great Indian Developer Awards at GIDS 2008, features the world premiere of the Developer Anthem. The lyrics of the anthem:

I've got whole worlds staring at screens, And yet no one ever senses me in between. I could be any of the ones or the zeros; One of its zillion unsung heroes

I'm told I'm a geek god in a glass temple; Worshipped. Overpaid. Replaceable. A human architect in this digital crucible; Neo, Invincible, One, Invisible.

I exist, God-like in a desk job mode, And on the 7th day I rest. I can be benched, right sized or dropped on the road;. Never lived for, though I too will live forever with the index.

So my friend, if you, like myself, are seeking me now; I pray this song finds you somehow. Coz my world is so much smaller these days, So small, precious little is face to face

And if I've earned one epitaph no one grudges me, It's for being human, behind the screen; For putting the ones and zeros in place;

And most of myself in this digital embrace

You see the world is so much smaller these days
How could something so small take away my face?