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Track: Dumb It Down
Artist: The Divine Comedy
Album: Regeneration

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Name: The Divine Comedy
Spotify Genres: baroque pop, britpop, comedy
Followers: 163,496
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The Divine Comedy are a pop band from Northern Ireland, fronted by Neil Hannon. Over the years, many musicians have joined the band on tour and for recording sessions but the driving force of the band and its main (and sometimes only) member has always been Neil Hannon.

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Release: The Divine Comedy - Regeneration
Year: 2001
Genres: Rock, Pop
Styles: Indie Rock, Indie Pop

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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?