How To Be Dumb
Elvis Costello
#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author’s own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study scholarship or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## from: Christian Korbanka Cologne Germany e-mail: lyrics and chords of: How To Be Dumb by Elvis Costello Suggestions and corrections are always welcome! date: 95/10/15 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? Seite 1 von 3
