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 to the doorway    of the funniest fucker in 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 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    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 pitifully    You always had to dress up your envy in some half-remembered    philosophy       Now you're masquerading as pale powdered genius    Whose ever 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 dilettante    Funny though people don't usually get so ugly till they think    they know what they want    Scratch your 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