Can't Say No

Calculate, 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, God saves" And all in the form of a faceless newscast 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, cultive, elevated Give it up to reality Distillate, venerate, these days You can feel it cuts evil that you see And all the kids with the sound bites, same chains Choking up lines playing who's who at games All in the spell of this 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 Confident keepers of any path wandering Desolate dreamers with heads caught up in the sway Obstinate leaders of organized ignorance Making up rules for the mute and the waylaid But ll the kids that are raised in the free fall And from silence in the pacified strip mall They pay the wage with the dollars of gravity On the bedside, oh, my conscience cost 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 You can't say no You can't say no You can't say no You can't say no