Dumb It Down - The Divine Comedy

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

Lobotomize 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?