You've got a personality    We'll throw you in the sea and watch you drown    Dumb it down    Your concentration span's too long    It's longer than this song, that's not allowed    Dumb it down    You don't need books to know what's what    We'll pile them up and burn them to the ground    Dumb it down    And if you say that we're corrupt    We'll round you up and run you out of town    Dumb it down       Down and down and down it goes   Where it stops nobody knows    And not a lot of people seem to care    Well it's so crazy, it's so great    We can all communicate    But no one's saying anything out there   Is there anybody out there?       Intelligence is dangerous    A virus of the brain you pass around    Dumb it down    We'll vaccinate each boy and girl    Lobotomise the world through sight and sound   Dumb it down    No one can tell you what to think    And if you think that's true then you're a clown    Dumb it down   'Cause freedom's wasted on the free    You just don't see the beauty all around    Dumb it down       Down and down and down we slide    It's too tricky to decide    Between channels one and sixty-three   'Cause everything is mindless fluff    Like this world's not dumb enough    Does anybody feel the same as me?    Is there anybody listening?