The deep state man, it ain’t even deep You barely have to squint to see it The deep state man, it ain’t even deep You hardly have to squint to see it
We’re both looking at the same damn thing You see a kingmaker, I see a king You see a board room, I see a chess board They’ll protect the royal court under threat of the sword
A missed encounter with the real Them towers falling didn’t change the deal They just pulled the fuckin’ curtain back Now they act more brazen with a lot less tact
The power’s in contracts, it ain’t in Congress
CSPAN is theater, man, no more, no less On everything important there’s broad consensus From the hacks to the pols to the bosses they can sense us
Getting restless, but man they couldn’t care less We’re screaming in a vacuum: ‘transparency and fairness’ They tell us they’re with us, their condescension’s regal No conspiracy their hegemony is legal
And that’s the fucking thing that keeps me up at night Power builds a force field, hides in plain sight The deep state man, it ain’t even deep And to these motherfuckers man your life is cheap
The deep state man, it ain’t even deep You barely have to squint to see it The deep state man, it ain’t even deep You hardly have to squint to see it
From the motherfucking beltway to Silicon Valley From Langley to Bluffdale, Wall Street to Raleigh Data analytics, high frequency trades Financialization, privatized highways
Sacrifice zones left to wither on the vine While shareholder pockets just keep getting lined A minor offense: disenfranchisement While monumental theft gets you a slap on the wrist
Internal colonies just swept to the side While urban Babylon grows higher and higher
For generations the injustice piled on Redlines, white mobs, black blood smiled upon The GI bill, the new middle class And swaths of black veterans left out on their ass
Coercion automated, the illusion of choice Locked into systems in which we have no voice Fodder for ad-men, grist for the mill We’re all willing dupes at the mercy of shills The deep state man, it ain’t even deep You barely have to squint to see it The deep state man, it ain’t even deep You hardly have to squint to see it