# (I Can't Get No) Public Satisfaction ## Verse 1: I can't get no public satisfaction I can't get no citizen reaction 'Cause we try and we try and we try and we try We can't get no, we can't get no When you get three minutes to speak your mind In a five-hour meeting that's a waste of time ## Chorus: I can't get no satisfaction from these meetings I can't get no action, just more greetings We talk and we talk and we talk and we talk But we can't get no, we can't get no satisfaction ## Verse 2: They call it public input but it's just for show Clock starts ticking and away you go Three minutes flat to solve the city's woes While they've got five hours for their political prose Working folks can't make it, they're stuck at their jobs While we sit here listening to the usual mobs ## Chorus: I can't get no satisfaction from these meetings I can't get no action, just more greetings We debate and we wait and we delegate But we can't get no, we can't get no satisfaction ## Bridge: Stop the clock for procedure, start it up for the people Parliamentary games while the problems stay lethal Real democracy's dying in this fluorescent light While citizens go home 'cause they can't stay all night ## Verse 3: Five hours of talking, three minutes to hear What the folks really think about issues that matter here Backwards priorities in our public square Wasting everybody's time with our bureaucratic flair ## Final Chorus: I can't get no satisfaction from these meetings I can't get no action, just more greetings We adjourn and return and we never learn That we can't get no, we can't get no Can't get no satisfaction! No satisfaction! No satisfaction!
