You can talk your way out of everything And convince people of anything But over time your words loose meaning Empty promises and false assurance The subtle art of persuasion Bask in the glory of your standing ovation And overtime your hairline receding Hollow gestures and secret agendas The subtle art of persuasion Bask in the glory of your standing ovation Stop running Stop hiding behind your heavy rhetoric Take responsibility for what you say Stop running Stop hiding behind your heavy rhetoric How long can you keep running away Constantly learning new ways to pacify the populace The new representative of this ill-fated metropolis You think us mere plebeians Armed with vicious terminology You catch the world off guard Stop running Stop hiding behind your heavy rhetoric. Take responsibility for what you say Stop running Stop hiding behind your heavy rhetoric How long can you keep running away You catch the world off guard And take that which is so damn sacred Petrifying the masses This insidious sermon delivered Orchestrating pandemonium You appease us with these bullshit statistics Waging war with a microphone Calculated chaos