Mean

                                  You, with your words like knives 

And swords and weapons that you use against me

You, have knocked me off my feet again, 

Got me feeling like a nothing

You, with your voice like nails 

On a chalk board, calling me out when I'm wounded

You, picking on the weaker man



You can take me down 

With just one single blow 

But you don't know what you don't know



Someday I'll be living in a big old city 

And all you're ever gonna be is mean

Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me 

And all you're ever gonna be is mean

Why you gotta be so mean?



You, with your switching sides 

And your wildfire lies and your humiliation

You have pointed out my flaws again 

As if I don't already see them

I walk with my head down, 

Try to block you out 'cause I never impress you

I just want to feel okay again



I bet you got pushed around

Somebody made you cold but the cycle ends right now 

'Cause you can't lead me down that road 

And you don't know what you don't know



Someday I'll be living in a big old city 

And all you're ever gonna be is mean

Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me 

And all you're ever gonna be is mean

Why you gotta be so mean?



And I can see you years from now in a bar

Talking over a football game 

With that same big loud opinion

But nobody's listening, washed up and ranting 

About the same old bitter things

Drunk and rumbling on about how I can't sing 

But all you are is mean

All you are is mean and a liar and pathetic

And alone in life and mean, and mean, and mean, and mean



But someday I'll be living in a big old city 

And all you're ever gonna be is mean

Yeah someday I'll be big enough 

So you can't hit me 

And all you're ever gonna be is mean

Why you gotta be so (mean)

Someday I'll be living in a big old city

(Why you gotta be so mean)



And all you're ever gonna be is mean

(Why you gotta be so mean)

Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me

(Why you gotta be so mean)

And all you're ever gonna be is mean

Why you gotta be so mean?