[Silence]
[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]
[Intro]
[Instrumental Intro: Low Organ Drone, Sparse Guitar Harmonics, Slow-Build Bass Pulse]
[Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]
Advisory…
(In name only)
Public record…
(Or so we’re told)
[Instrumental]
[Bass Solo — restrained, deliberate]
[Organ Stabs, Snare March — slower, heavier]
[Verse 1]
Federal statute
(Plain and clear)
Transparency required
(Year by year)
Balanced viewpoints
(On display)
Open minutes
(Of what they say)
Filed and formed
(Behind closed doors)
Drafted findings
(Policy wars)
Cited later
(To justify)
Rollbacks written
(In black and white)
[Bridge – Breakdown]
[Percussion, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]
Federal Advisory Committee Act
(Read it back)
Operate openly
(That’s the pact)
[Instrumental — Angular Guitar Figures]
[Chorus]
Advisory in name only
(Quietly convened)
Public trust eroding
(What does it mean?)
If the record’s hidden
(And balance undone)
Is it counsel given
(Or outcome spun?)
[Instrumental]
[Saxophone Solo — tense, restrained]
[Driving Bass, Snare March]
[Verse 2]
Five assembled
(Question the frame)
Model disputes
(Recurrent refrain)
Unsettled science
(So they claim)
Yet policy turns
(All the same)
Coalitions orbit
(Network ties)
Funding streams
(Strategic replies)
Reports referenced
(In legal review)
Endangerment weighed
(And overruled too)
[Bridge – Breakdown]
[Percussion, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]
Transparency
(Balanced view)
Public oversight
(Did it occur?)
[Instrumental — Guitar Solo, sharper, angular]
[Chorus]
Advisory in name only
(Quietly convened)
Public trust eroding
(What does it mean?)
If the record’s hidden
(And balance undone)
Is it counsel given
(Or outcome spun?)
[Outro]
[Organ Swell, Bass Pulse Slowing]
D.O.E.
(Accountability)
Working group
(Under scrutiny)
Advisory…
(In name only)
[Instrumental Fade — Single Sustained Organ Note]
From the album “Account“