Can’t Say No

Lyrics

[Intro] [Verse 1] Calculate, cultivate, relegate and chalk it up to the basic needs Dissipate, isolate, these days you can run or believe all that you read And all the kids with the download brainwaves Holdin' up signs saying, "Guns kill, God saves" And all in the form of the faceless newscast Commercials that say, "Live well, but die fast" [Chorus] 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 [Verse 2] Calculate, consecrate, elevate and give it up to reality Distillate, venerate, these days you can feel and conceive all that you see And all the kids with the soundbite same-chains Chokin' up lines, playin' who's-who mind games All in the spell of the speechless redress Commercials that say, "Take more, but give less" [Chorus] 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 [Instrumental Break] [Verse 3] Confident keepers of baited breath, 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 all the kids that are raised in the freefall And from silence of a pacified strip mall They pay the wage with the dollars of gravity On the bedside phone my conscience calls to me [Chorus] 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