Freedom of choice to use your voice
Not something that I've ever seen enforced
Free to meek but not to speak
Free to watch all of your rhetoric repeating

Free to decide to just let things slide
I'm free to be however you want me
Bad news today, sorry to say
You've been declined an open mind

So you can shut your mouth
Shut it down
Has the point gotten through?
Shut your mouth, keep it down

When you're not here it would seem so clear
Be what you like, see what you like and have no fear
But like big kids at school, consumed
By cool trained to spit on all exceptions to the rule

Inside your mind you feel so confined
It's hard to breathe you can't get no release
Boxed in and left out, you wanna shout
You wanna rant, you know you can't

So you just shut your mouth
Shut it down
Has the point gotten through?
Shut your mouth, you keep it down

Oh boy, there's no tellin' you
Hot today, what you say?
Now you got your point made
I think you made a mistake

Leaving this up to fate
For you to say
That okay, okay, okay

Freedom of choice to use your voice
Not something that I've ever seen enforced
But I'm boxed in and left out
You wanna shout, you wanna rant, you know you can't

So you just shut your mouth
Shut it down
Has the point gotten through?
Shut your mouth, keep it down

Oh boy, there's no tellin' you
Shut your mouth, shut your mouth now
Do you know who you're talkin' to?
Shut your mouth, you keep it down