Divine Comedy Dumb It Down Lyrics

Dumb It Down Lyrics

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?