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 elses paint
Now youve 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
Theyre here to help you
Satisfy your desire
Theres a bright future for all you professional liars
Chorus
Now you know how to be dumb
Are you ready to take your place in the modern museum of mistakes?
Dont 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
Theyll be howling by midnight, theyll be drooling by dawn
Skulls shrunk down to the size of their brains
Heads shaven and shorn
Chorus
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 youre masquerading as pale powdered genius
Whose ever bad intention has been purged
You couldve walked out any time you wanted but face it you
Didnt have the courage
I guess that makes you a full time hypocrite or some kind of
Twisted dilettante
Funny though people dont 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
Dont you know how to be dumb?
Are you ready to take your place in the modern museum of mistakes?
Dont you know how to be dumb?
Like a building thrown up overnight in one of those reverse earthquakes
