How to Be Dumb Lyrics

How to Be Dumb - Elvis Costello (埃尔维斯 科斯特洛)

I was hell bent on destroying my powers of concentration

While you were living like a saint

And all the time that 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 f**ker in the world

They're here to help you

Satisfy your desires

There's a bright future

Through 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 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 barbed 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

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

Trapped in the house

Of the perpetual sucker where

Bitterness always ends so pitifully

You always had to dress up your envy in some

Half remembered philosophy

Now you're masquerading

As a 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

'Til 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

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 don't how to be dumb

Don't don't don't don't to be dumb

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