lyrics and chords of: How To Be Dumb by Elvis Costello
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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 through the doorway of
The funniest fucker of 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 goals
The "New Bruise" was the name of the dance craze
By "Jesus Cross and the Cruel Nails"
Followed up by "Tortouzring 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 pityful
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 dilletante
Funny though people don't usually get so ugly
'Til they think they know what they want
Scratch you 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?
Don't you know how to be dumb?
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