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?