This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Captivate, 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, gods saves"
And all in the form of the faceless news cast
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, consecrate, elevate it, give it up to reality
Distillate, venerate, these days you can't feel or conceive
All that you see
And all the kids with the soundbyte slave chains
Choking up lines playing who's-who mind games
All in the spell of the 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
Consummate keepers of many left wondering
Desolate dreamers with heads caught up in the sway
Obstinate herders of organized ignorance
Making up rules for the mute and the willing
But all the kids that are raised in the free-fall
And from the silence of a pacified strip mall
They pay the wage with the dollars of gravity
On their bedside, oh, my conscience calls to 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
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, gods saves"
And all in the form of the faceless news cast
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, consecrate, elevate it, give it up to reality
Distillate, venerate, these days you can't feel or conceive
All that you see
And all the kids with the soundbyte slave chains
Choking up lines playing who's-who mind games
All in the spell of the 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
Consummate keepers of many left wondering
Desolate dreamers with heads caught up in the sway
Obstinate herders of organized ignorance
Making up rules for the mute and the willing
But all the kids that are raised in the free-fall
And from the silence of a pacified strip mall
They pay the wage with the dollars of gravity
On their bedside, oh, my conscience calls to 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
Lyrics submitted by MortalSoldier
Can't Say No Lyrics as written by Jason Pebworth Jonathan Shave
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I assume this is not from a lyrics booklet... I attempted transcribing this song too, I got this: Calculate, cultivate rather gate it, chock it up to the basic needs. Dissipate, isolate these days you cannot believe all that you read. And all the kids, with the download brainwaves Holding up signs, saying "Guns kill, gods sakes" And all in the form of the faceless newscast. Commercials, they say, live well but die fast.
Even if you wanted to, even if you could oh-oh You can't say no (x2)
Calculate, come to create, elevate it Give it up to reality Distill, invigorate these days you can feel there comes evil that you see And all the kids, with the soundbyte hang chains, choking up lines playing "Whose, who right?" games
And all with the spell of the speechless redress, commercials, they say, take more but give less.
Even if you wanted to, even if you could oh-oh You can't say no (x2)
Confident keepers of, many left wondering, desolate dreamers with heads caught up in the sway, Obstinent healers of organized ignorance, making up rules for the mute and the will-less And all the kids that are raised in the freefall, and from the silence with pacified stretch marks. They hit an age with the dollars of gravity, on their bedside, on my conscience costs me
Even if you wanted to, even if you could oh-oh You can't say no (x2) You can't say no.. (x3)
@Calebdaguy I think it my be obstinate heeders of organized ignorance.