Three names you never voted for
Control the ground beneath your floor
BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street’s grip
Trillions locked in their iron fist
Every index, every fund
The web was woven before you’d begun
You think you own it — read the fine print
Your portfolio is their blueprint

The revolving door keeps spinning round
Regulators bought without a sound
Academia writes the alibis
While the invisible hand controls your life

Shadow Empire — built in the dark
Shadow Empire — they own every part
You were sleeping while they seized the throne
Three unelected gods — and you’re the loan
Wake up — the empire has no crown
Shadow Empire — we’re burning it down

Low fees sold as liberation
Index funds — a Trojan infiltration
Aladdin runs the numbers cold
Risk management for the bought and sold
ESG — a leash disguised as virtue
Stakeholder language written to hurt you
They profit when the market bleeds
Economic crisis — that’s their seed

The revolving door keeps spinning round
Regulators bought without a sound
Academia writes the alibis
While the invisible hand controls your life

Shadow Empire — built in the dark
Shadow Empire — they own every part
You were sleeping while they seized the throne
Three unelected gods — and you’re the loan
Wake up — the empire has no crown
Shadow Empire — we’re burning it down

But the sovereign mind cannot be bought
And the truth they buried can’t stay locked
Pull your assets from their hands
Hold the metal — hold the land
Decentralized — beyond their reach
Local roots they cannot breach
Every dollar freed is a vote cast
Every chain you break — is the first and last

They called it diversification.
They called it competition.
They called it the free market.
Three companies. Every boardroom. Every ballot.
Not anymore.

Shadow Empire — exposed in the light
Shadow Empire — we’re taking back the night
You were sleeping while they seized the throne
Three unelected gods — cast in stone
Eyes open — the empire starts to drown
Shadow Empire —
We’re burning it DOWN

The shadow lifts
When the sovereign rises
The shadow lifts
No more compromises
The shadow lifts —
Discipline equals freedom
The shadow lifts —

Train until it’s instinct