[Intro] This is not a list. It’s a map folded small enough to fit a pocket. [Verse 1] Standard Oil fingerprints on every valve, DuPont patents stitched to the factory floor tiles. Chase on the paper, insurance on the risk, Broadcast voices selling calm while the switch gets flipped. Steel feeds chemicals, chemicals feed war, Banks feed both and still ask what the profit’s for. You think these are rivals fighting over lanes, They share directors like blood types, different names. [Verse 2] Same men rotate chairs, never leave the room, One vote here echoes there by afternoon. You see logos, I see overlap, A chessboard where the bishops trade hats. Federal branches hum like a tuned machine, Private hands steering public routines. When a company falls, another gets fed, Interlocks keep the body from bleeding out dead. [Hook] It’s not monopoly, it’s alignment, Too many hands for coincidence math. If the system never breaks, just bends, It’s because the joints all know each other’s path. [Verse 3] Broadcast buys silence with friendly tone, Insurance prices disaster like it’s already known. Manufacturing nods at the banker’s cue, And the banker learned patience from lawyers in blue. You don’t need one king to rule the field, Just a circle tight enough the exits seal. Power don’t shout, it connects and waits, Till every door opens on the same date. [Outro] You can cut one wire. The lights stay on.
