You Can Say You Don't Want It

Oh you can say no
But I know
What you want
When you say
You don't want it
You can say you don't want it

But you're undressing
Messing around while
The eyes outside
Act surprised
At your behavior
And the poor girl
Who thought you were
Her savior just stopped
Believing anything you say

You can say you don't like it
But you seem to enjoy
The boy you're locked in with
Flitting through hidden rooms
Assuming you're merely
Fitting in with the other flitting guests
Doing your best to lower your voice
Making the choice to leave the door unlocked
To look less suspicious
While your girlfriend does the dishes
Fictitious stories of what you were doing
Running through your mind
Finding them in the dark
While you're parked on the bed
In the spare room
Down the hall

You can say you don't want to hear it
But we can hear you
Banging on the unlocked door
Wondering how you got trapped in that space
Facing up to the fact
That you like how you act
When nobody's reacting to you

So move to a big city
Where you can run in crowds
Be loud and dumb down yourself
Even more than you are now
Because being in touch
Can be rough when you're soft
Your lofty ambitions
Turning into indecision
As the precision with which you deceive
Becomes sloppy
And you become
Harder to believe

When you say
What you say
How you say it

You can say you don't want it
You can say a lot of things
You can talk all night long