How To Be Dumb Songtext / Lyric

I was hell-bent on destroying my powers of concentration

While you were living like a saint

And all the time the very one you trusted was

Washing off somebody else's paint



Now you've got yourself a brand new occupation

Every fleeting thought is a pearl

And beautiful people stampede to the doorway of the

Funniest fucker in the world



They're here to help you

Satisfy your desires

There's a bright future

For all you professional liars



Now you know how to be dumb?

Are you ready to take your place

In the modern museum of mistakes?



Don't you know how to be dumb?

Like a building thrown up overnight

In one of those reverse earthquakes






They emptied out all of the asylums

They emptied out all the jails

The 'New Bruise' was the name of a dance craze

By Jesus Cross and the Cruel Nails



Followed up by 'Torturing Little Beaver'

With their contraption of 'Barb wire'

Between the fear and the fever lies

All the rejection they require



They'll be howling by midnight

They'll be drooling by dawn

Skulls shrunk down to the size of their brains

Heads shaven and shorn



Don't you know how to be dumb?

Are you ready to take your place

In the modern museum of mistakes?



Don't you know how to be dumb?

Like a building thrown up overnight

In one of those reversed earthquakes



Trapped in the House of the Perpetual Succour where

Bitterness always ends so pitifully

You always had to dress up your envy in some

Half remembered philosophy



Now you're masquerading as pale powdered genius whose

Every bad intention has been purged

You could've walked out any time you wanted but

Face it you didn't have the courage



I guess that makes you a full time hypocrite

Or some kind of twisted dilettante

Funny though people don't usually get so ugly till they

Think they know what they want



Scratch your own head stupid

Count up to three

Roll over on your back

Repeat after me



Don't you know how to be dumb?

Are you ready to take your place

In the modern museum of mistakes?



Don't you know how to be dumb?

Like a building thrown up overnight

In one of those reverse earthquakes



Ohh don't you know how to be dumb?

Don't you know how to be dumb?

Don't you know how to be dumb?

Yes you know how to be dumb?

Dumb, dumb, dumb, d-d-d-dumb

Fine, fine