Can't Say No Lyrics

Calculate, cultivate
relegate and chock 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 download brainwaves
Holding up signs, saying
"Guns kill, God saves"
And all in the form of the faceless newscast.
Commercials, they 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 feel there comes evil that you see
And all the kids, with the soundbyte same chains,
choking up lines playing whose who mind games
And all with the spell of the speechless redress,
commercials, they 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

(solo)

Consonant keepers of many paths wondering,
desolate dreamers with heads caught up in the sway,
Obstinent headers of organized ignorance,
making up rules for the mute and the waylayed
But ooh the kids that are raised in the freefall,
and from silence in the pacified strip mall.
They pay the wage with the dollars of gravity,
on their bedside, oh my conscience costs 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.