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Chords in this song8
Verse
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
Verse
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
Pre-Chorus
They're here to help you
Satisfy your desire
There's 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?
Don't you know how to be dumb?
Like a building thrown up overnight
In one of those reverse earthquakes
Verse
They emptied out all the asylums,
They emptied out all the jails
The "New Bruise" was the name of the dance craze
By "Jesus Christ and the Cruel Nails"
Verse
Followed up by "Torturing Little Beaver"
With their contraption of barbed wire
Between the fear and the fever lies
All the rejection they require
Pre-Chorus
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
Chorus
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
Bridge
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
Verse
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
Verse
I guess that makes you a full time hypocrite
Or some kind of twisted dilettante
Funny though people don't usually get so ugly
'Til they think they know what they want
Pre-Chorus
Scratch you own head stupid
Count up to three
Roll over on your back
Repeat after me
Chorus
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
Outro
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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