The Dumb Song

The official cover art for The Dumb Song.

"**The Dumb Song**" is the fourth song on AJR's fifth studio album, *The Maybe Man*. It is also the third single to be released from the album.

## Teasers

The song was originally teased on January 9th, 2023, showing Ryan and Jack making the song. Later on March 28th, 2023, they teased the song again with a video of Jack on the drums with lyrics. The video had the title "Something's Coming..." On the same day, AJR's Pre-Save Page changed from "Something Dumb" to '??? ???? ????". On March 30th, 2023, they uploaded a video to their Instagram page with the same audio but with the caption "Something's Coming It's Got Drums and It's Got Bass", showing a video of Adam playing the Guitar. On April 2nd, 2023, AJR uploaded a new video with the title "Something's Coming It's Got Gang Vocals". This video showed AJR and their friends singing a melody and then a video of Jack and Ryan making the song.

On Apr 11, 2023, AJR uploaded a video titled "Heyyyyy The Dumb Song is out April 21". This video included Jack dancing and singing the song outside. On April 13th, 2023, AJR uploaded a video to most of their social medias which released the cover for the single. It also included a small part of the song that was previously unreleased. This clip also had the line "You should not have done that", which was a lyric in the song. On April 15th, 2023, AJR changed all (except for Twitter) of their social media profiles to be the cover art for this song. Later, on April 16th, 2023, a video where Ryan and Austin attempt to get out of duct tape was posted to their social medias. It contained two possible new lyrics for the song. On April 19th, 2023, a video promoting the song was released. The video showed a camera moving around Ryan as he lip synced the lyrics to the song. This teaser also included two new lyrics.

On April 20, 2023, a final teaser was uploaded to AJR's social medias. It showed a clip with audio from the second teaser of the song with the original audio, with a few clips of the brothers making the song in the background. On 26th of April 2023, AJR updated their Twitter profile to show The Dumb Song's cover.

**All teasers released for the song in chronological order**
 April 16, 2023

## Lyrics

[Intro]
Oh, in my head

[Verse 1]
You said with certainty
I may be the dumbest person that you've ever seen
You think you're hurtin' me
Bet you won't believe it, but you kinda set me free

[Verse 2]
You've mentioned Adderall
Slip this guy a sedative, he's bouncin' off the wall
Honey, it's no big deal
We get you back to college, you could study somethin' real
[Pre-Chorus]
So if that's how you feel

[Chorus]
When we go down
When kingdom come
Don't look at me, don't look at me
I'm just too dumb
I'd love to stay (Love to stay)
But like you said (Like you said)
Don't look at me (Nothin' in my head )
'Cause I got nothin' in my head

[Post-Chorus]
Oh, in my head

[Verse 3]
Too dumb for breakin' up
I'd do it in person, but I'd probably mess it up
I'll text you, "That's enough"
That's how empty-headed people get through shitty stuff

[Verse 4]
Your world is endin' soon
Mine's a little better 'cause I never watch the news
You make my lunch today
I would do it, but I couldn't work my microwave
[Pre-Chorus]
So if that's what you're sayin'

[Chorus]
When we go down
When kingdom come
Don't look at me, don't look at me
I'm just too dumb
I'd love to stay (Love to stay)
But like you said (Like you said)
Don't look at me (Nothin' in my head )
'Cause I got nothin' in my head

[Post-Chorus]
Oh, in my head

[Bridge]
You should not have done that
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da da-da-da-da
Da-da da-da-da da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da da-da-da-da
Da-da da-da-da da-da-da-da

[Chorus]
When we go down (We go down)
When kingdom come (Kingdom come)
Don't look at me, don't look at me
I'm much too dumb
I'd love to stay (Love to stay)
But like you said (Like you said)
Don't look at me (Nothin' in my head )
'Cause I got nothin' in my head
[Post-Chorus]
Oh, in my head
Oh, in my head

[Outro]
When we go down
When kingdom come
Don't look at me, don't look at me
I'm just too dumb

## Audio

* Spotify
* YouTube

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## Videos

AJR - The Dumb Song (Official Video)The Dumb Song (Official Video)AJR - The Dumb Song (Visualizer)The Dumb Song (Visualizer)

## Trivia

* The house from the single art can be seen in *The Maybe Man*'s cover art, although without the brothers inside it.
* The name of the song may have been a reference to the lyrics of Turning Out Pt. ii, "Now I’m here writing this dumb song".
* The name of the song is also referenced in "2085", in the lyric "Writing my dumb songs and my growing up songs".