Captivate, cultivate, relegate and chalk it up to the basic needsnDissipate, isolate, these days you can't run or believe all that you readnAnd all the kids with the download brainwavesnHolding up signs saying guns kill, god savesnAnd all in the form of the faceless news castnCommercials, they say live well but die fastnnEven if you wanted tonEven if you could, oh-ohnYou can't say nonnEven if you wanted tonEven if you could, oh-ohnYou can't say nonnCalculate, consecrate, elevate it, give it up to realitynDistillate, venerate, these days you can't feel or concieve all that you seenAnd all the kids with the soundbyte slave chainsnChoking up lines playing who's-who mind gamesnAll in the spell of the speechless redressnCommercials that say take more but give lessnnEven if you wanted tonEven if you could, oh-ohnYou can't say nonnEven if you wanted tonEven if you could, oh-ohnYou can't say nonnConfident keepers of many left wonderingnDesolate dreamers with heads caught up in the swaynObstinate heeders of organized ignorancenMaking up rules for the mute and the willingnBut all the kids that are raised in the freefallnAnd from the silence of a pacified strip mallnThey pay the wage with their dollars of gravitynOn their bedside, oh, my conscience calls to mennEven if you wanted tonEven if you could, oh-ohnYou can't say nonnEven if you wanted tonEven if you could, oh-ohnYou can't say no