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Calculate, cultivate, relegate |
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And chalk it up to the basic needs |
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Dissipate, isolate, these days |
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You can't run or believe all that you read |
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And all the kids with the down-low brainwaves |
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Holding up signs saying "guns kill, God saves" |
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And all in the form of a faceless newscast |
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Commercials that say live well but die fast |
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Even if you wanted to |
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Even if you could, oh, oh |
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You can't say no |
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Even if you wanted to |
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Even if you could, oh, oh |
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You can't say no |
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Calculate, cultive, elevated |
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Give it up to reality |
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Distillate, venerate, these days |
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You can feel it cuts evil that you see |
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And all the kids with the sound bites, same chains |
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Choking up lines playing who's who at games |
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All in the spell of this speechless redress |
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Commercials that say take more but give less |
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Even if you wanted to |
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Even if you could, oh, oh |
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You can't say no |
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Even if you wanted to |
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Even if you could, oh, oh |
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You can't say no |
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Confident keepers of any path wandering |
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Desolate dreamers with heads caught up in the sway |
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Obstinate leaders of organized ignorance |
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Making up rules for the mute and the waylaid |
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But ll the kids that are raised in the free fall |
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And from silence in the pacified strip mall |
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They pay the wage with the dollars of gravity |
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On the bedside, oh, my conscience cost me |
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Even if you wanted to |
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Even if you could, oh, oh |
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You can't say no |
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Even if you wanted to |
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Even if you could, oh, oh |
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You can't say no |
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You can't say no |
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You can't say no |
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You can't say no |
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You can't say no |
