Every bad intention has been purged
Or some kind of twisted dilettante
Funniest fucker in the world
Think they know what they want
Don't you know how to be dumb?
Now you've got yourself a brand new occupation
And beautiful people stampede to the doorway of the
I guess that makes you a full time hypocrite
And all the time the very one you trusted was
Like a building thrown up overnight
Every fleeting thought is a pearl
The 'New Bruise' was the name of a dance craze
They emptied out all of the asylums
Are you ready to take your place
Followed up by 'Torturing Little Beaver'
Between the fear and the fever lies
Funny though people don't usually get so ugly till they
Heads shaven and shorn
Ohh don't you know how to be dumb?
For all you professional liars
Now you know how to be dumb?
Are you ready to take your place
In one of those reverse earthquakes
Half remembered philosophy
All the rejection they require
Scratch your own head stupid
Don't you know how to be dumb?
Bitterness always ends so pitifully
Washing off somebody else's paint
You could've walked out any time you wanted but
In one of those reversed earthquakes
Are you ready to take your place
Trapped in the House of the Perpetual Succour where
In one of those reverse earthquakes
Roll over on your back
There's a bright future
Repeat after me
In the modern museum of mistakes?
Like a building thrown up overnight
Now you're masquerading as pale powdered genius whose
With their contraption of 'Barb wire'
In the modern museum of mistakes?
Face it you didn't have the courage
By Jesus Cross and the Cruel Nails
Dumb, dumb, dumb, d-d-d-dumb
Don't you know how to be dumb?
They'll be drooling by dawn
In the modern museum of mistakes?
They're here to help you
Satisfy your desires
Count up to three
Yes you know how to be dumb?
Skulls shrunk down to the size of their brains
Don't you know how to be dumb?
Don't you know how to be dumb?
They'll be howling by midnight
You always had to dress up your envy in some
Don't you know how to be dumb?
Don't you know how to be dumb?
They emptied out all the jails
Like a building thrown up overnight
