Checks And Balances

Drop

Three branches three branches watch the branches sway

Both sides of the aisle got a bill they gotta pay

Verse 1

Senate floor full of suits making promises

Every four years they remember where the voters is

House side hollering change then they stall it

Campaign signs come down and the lobbyists call it

Red tie blue tie same tailor same thread

Both pockets open when the checkbooks get read

They shake hands smile for the camera then they split

One team takes the blame and the other takes the credit

Chorus

Three branches three branches watch the branches sway

Both sides of the aisle got a bill they gotta pay

Checks and balances rattling like a chain

Nobody pulls the brake nobody takes the blame

Three branches three branches watch the branches bend

Every single promise got a loophole in the end

Post-Chorus

Sway sway sway

Watch the branches bend

Sway sway sway

Every loophole in the end

Verse 2

Congress writes the law then they read it on the news

President signs it slow so the cameras get a view

Courtroom down the street with the gavel in the air

Nine seats nine minds and the country holds its prayer

Veto get a veto override the vote

Filibuster shut it down before the people even know

Amendment like a ladder if the people want a rung

But the ladder's in a vault and the vault is never young

Chorus

Three branches three branches watch the branches sway

Both sides of the aisle got a bill they gotta pay

Checks and balances rattling like a chain

Nobody pulls the brake nobody takes the blame

Three branches three branches watch the branches bend

Every single promise got a loophole in the end

Post-Chorus

Sway sway sway

Watch the branches bend

Sway sway sway

Every loophole in the end

Bridge

I ain't mad at a party I'm mad at the pattern

Power in a circle like a wheel on a wagon

Read the fine print read the fine print

Then read it one more time

Chorus

Three branches three branches watch the branches sway

Both sides of the aisle got a bill they gotta pay

Checks and balances rattling like a chain

Nobody pulls the brake nobody takes the blame

Three branches three branches watch the branches bend

Every single promise got a loophole in the end

Post-Chorus

Sway sway sway

Watch the branches bend

Sway sway sway

Every loophole in the end