Dumb All Over
Music and lyrics by Frank Zappa
Performed by Father Wayne and the Fuglies
Guitar solo by Nick Hirst
Cruciform guitars supplied by CRUX
Whoever we are, wherever we're from
We shoulda noticed by now our behavior is dumb
And if our chances expect to improve
It's gonna take a lot more than tryin' to remove
The other race or the other whatever
From the face of the planet altogether
And we call it the earth which is a dumb kinda name
But we named it right 'cause we behave the same
We are dumb all over. Dumb all over, yes we are
Dumb all over, near and far, come all over, black and white
People, we is not wrapped tight
And nerds on the left, nerds on the right
Religious fanatics on the air every night
Sayin' the bible tells the story
And makes the details sound real gory
About what to do if the geeks over there
Don't believe in the book we got over here
You can't run a race without no feet
And pretty soon there won't be no street
For dummies to jog on and doggies to dob on
Religious fanatics can make it be all gone
I mean, it won't blow up or disappear
It'll just look ugly for a thousand years!
You can't run a country by a book of religion
Not by a heap or a lump or a smidgeon
Of foolish rules of ancient date
Designed to make you all feel great
While you fold, spindle and mutilate
Those unbelievers from a neighboring state
To arms! to arms! Hooray, that's great
Two legs ain't bad unless there's a crate
They ship the parts to mama in
For souvenirs, two ears, get down
Not his, not hers, but what the hey
And the good book says: it's gotta be that way
But their book says: revenge the crusades
With whips and chains and hand grenades
Two arms? two arms? Have another and another
Our god says: There ain't no other
Our god says It's all okay
Our god says This is the way
It says in the book: Burn and destroy
And repent and redeem and revenge and deploy
And rumble thee forth
To the land of the unbelieving scum on the other side
'Cause they don't go for what's in the book and that makes 'em bad
So verily we must choppeth them up and stompeth them down
Or rent a nice french bomb to poove them out of existence
While leaving the real estate just where we need it
To use again, for temples in which to praise our god
'Cause he can really take care of business
And when his humble TV servant with humble white hair
And humble glasses and a nice brown suit
And maybe a blond wife who takes phone calls, tells us how god Says it's okay to do this stuff, then we gotta do it,
'Cause if we don't do it, we ain't goin' up to heaven
Depending on which book you're using at the time
Can't use theirs, it don't work, it's all lies
Gotta use mine, ain't that right?
That's what they say, every night every day
Hey, we can't really be dumb if we're just following god's orders
Let's get serious, god knows what he's doin'
He wrote this book here and the book says:
He made us all to be just like him,
So if we're dumb, then god is dumb
And maybe even a little ugly on the side.
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