How to Be Dumb-Elvis Costello

[ti:How to Be Dumb] [ar:Elvis Costello] [al:Mighty Like a Rose] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]How to Be Dumb - Elvis Costello (埃尔维斯 科斯特洛) [00:04.92]I was hell bent on destroying my powers of concentration [00:09.85]While you were living like a saint [00:13.43] [00:14.97]And all the time that very one you trusted was [00:19.54]Washing off somebody else's paint [00:23.33] [00:24.43]Now you've got yourself a brand new occupation [00:29.56]Every fleeting thought is a pearl [00:33.01] [00:33.96]And beautiful people stampede to the doorway [00:38.61]Of the funniest f**ker in the world [00:43.23] [00:45.35]They're here to help you [00:47.65]Satisfy your desires [00:50.36]There's a bright future [00:51.92]Through all you professional liars [00:54.46]Now you know how to be dumb [00:57.41] [00:58.80]Are you ready to take your place [01:00.77] [01:01.27]In the modern museum of mistakes [01:04.30]Don't you know how to be dumb [01:07.38] [01:08.84]Like a building thrown up overnight [01:11.17]In one of those reverse earthquakes [01:14.71] [01:18.03]They emptied out all the asylums [01:22.08] [01:22.73]They emptied out all the jails [01:25.94] [01:27.64]The new bruise was the name [01:30.25]Of a dance craze by Jesus [01:33.35]Cross and the cruel nails [01:36.37] [01:37.49]Followed up by torturing little beaver [01:42.00]With their contraption of barbed wire [01:45.63] [01:47.17]Between the fear and the fever lies [01:51.63]All the rejection they require [01:55.55] [01:57.13]They'll be howling by midnight [01:59.21] [01:59.92]They'll be drooling by dawn [02:01.69]Skulls shrunk down to the size of their brains [02:04.34]Heads shaven and shorn [02:06.55]Now you know how to be dumb [02:09.48] [02:10.78]Are you ready to take your place [02:13.22]In the modern museum of mistakes [02:16.31]Don't you know how to be dumb [02:19.32] [02:20.61]Like a building thrown up overnight [02:23.22]In one of those reverse earthquakes [02:26.99] [02:29.57]Trapped in the house [02:31.08]Of the perpetual sucker where [02:34.51]Bitterness always ends so pitifully [02:38.81] [02:40.00]You always had to dress up your envy in some [02:45.42]Half remembered philosophy [02:49.16]Now you're masquerading [02:51.01]As a pale powdered genius [02:53.39]Whose every bad intention has been purged [02:57.61] [02:59.29]You could've walked out [03:01.35]Any time you wanted but [03:03.73]Face it you didn't have the courage [03:07.38] [03:08.88]I guess that makes you a full time [03:12.36]Hypocrite or some kind of twisted dilettante [03:17.12] [03:18.14]Funny though people don't usually get so ugly [03:22.50]'Til they think they know what they want [03:26.93] [03:28.96]Scratch your own head stupid [03:30.82] [03:31.42]Count up to three [03:33.40] [03:33.99]Roll over on your back [03:35.80] [03:36.43]Repeat after me [03:38.20]Don't you know how to be dumb [03:41.29] [03:42.15]Are you ready to take your place [03:44.65]In the modern museum of mistakes [03:47.81]Don't you know how to be dumb [03:50.77] [03:52.13]Like a building thrown up overnight [03:54.61]In one of those reverse earthquakes [03:58.40] [04:05.97]Don't you know how to be dumb [04:08.84] [04:10.85]Don't you know how to be dumb [04:13.82] [04:15.55]Don't you know how to be dumb [04:18.61] [04:20.17]Yes you don't how to be dumb [04:23.80] [04:25.26]Don't don't don't don't to be dumb [04:28.28] [04:29.37]About the hate