Song meaning
Brett: "It's about the tri-lateral commission. It was ... a group commissioned by the government as a think tank who in the early 80's were responsible for a lot of the policy decisions by the U.S. government. And an oligarchy is like is like a monarchy of three. ... Since the tri-lateral commission had three parts it was saying that the U.S. government is an oligarchy. I'm not sure if that was really true or not."[1]
References
^ Roger Vulture interview with Brett (1996)