How to Be Dumb chords by Elvis Costello
Verse 1
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I was hell-bent on on destroying
my powers of concentration
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While you were living like a saint
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And all the time the very one you
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trusted was washing off
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Somebody else's paint
Verse 2
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Now you've got yourself a
brand new occupation
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Every fleeting thought is a pearl
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And beautiful people
stampede to the doorway
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Of the funniest fucker in
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the world
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Verse 3
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They're here to help you
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Satisfy your desire
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There's a bright future for
Verse 4
all you professional liars
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[Chorus]
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Now you know how to be dumb
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Are you ready to take your place in the
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modern museum of mistakes?
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Don't you know how to be dumb?
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Like a building thrown up overnight in
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one of those reverse earthquakes
Verse 5
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They emptied out all the asylums,
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they emptied out all the jails
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The "new bruise" was
the name of a dance craze
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By "Jesus cross and the
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cruel nails"
Followed up by "torturing little beaver"
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With their contraption of barbed wire
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Between the fear and the fever lies all the
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rejection they require
They'll be howling by midnight,
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they'll be drooling by dawn
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Skulls shrunk down to the
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size of their brains
Interlude 1
Heads shaven and shorn
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Verse 6
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Trapped in the house of the
perpetual sucker
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Where bitterness always
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ends so pitifully
You always had to dress up your envy
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in some half-remembered
Philosophy
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Philosophy
Verse 7
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Now you're masquerading as
pale powdered genius
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Whose ever bad intention has been purged
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You could've walked out any time
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you wanted but face it you
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Didn't have the courage
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I guess that makes you a full time
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hypocrite or some kind of
Twisted dilettante
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Funny though people don't usually
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get so ugly 'til they think
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They know what they want
Scratch your own head stupid
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Count up to three
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Roll over on your back
Repeat after me
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Don't you know
Verse 8
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how to be dumb?
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Are you ready to take your place in the
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modern museum of mistakes?
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Don't you know how to be dumb?
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Like a building thrown up overnight in one of those reverse earthquakes
Outro 1
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How to Be Dumb
Elvis Costello
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