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