Can't Say No

Captivate, cultivate, relegate and chalk it up to the basic needs Dissipate, isolate, these days you can't run or believe All that you read And all the kids with the down-low brainwaves Holding up signs saying "guns kill, gods saves" And all in the form of the faceless news cast Commercials that say live well but die fast Even if you wanted to Even if you could, oh-oh You can't say no Even if you wanted to Even if you could, oh-oh You can't say no Calculate, consecrate, elevate it, give it up to reality Distillate, venerate, these days you can't feel or conceive All that you see And all the kids with the soundbyte slave chains Choking up lines playing who's-who mind games All in the spell of the speechless redress Commercials that say take more but give less Even if you wanted to Even if you could, oh-oh You can't say no Even if you wanted to Even if you could, oh-oh You can't say no Consummate keepers of many left wondering Desolate dreamers with heads caught up in the sway Obstinate herders of organized ignorance Making up rules for the mute and the willing But all the kids that are raised in the free-fall And from the silence of a pacified strip mall They pay the wage with the dollars of gravity On their bedside, oh, my conscience calls to me Even if you wanted to Even if you could, oh-oh You can't say no Even if you wanted to Even if you could, oh-oh You can't say no

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