
Date of issue: 10.06.2012
Age restrictions: 18+
Song language: English
How to Be Dumb |
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 desire |
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 the asylums, they emptied out all the gaols |
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 |
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 pale powdered genius |
Whose ever 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 |
Don’t you know how to be dumb? |
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