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