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 I'm nothing You, with your voice like nails on a chalkboard
Calling me out when I'm wounded You picking on the weaker man
Well 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 ol' 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 Trying to block you out 'cause I'll never
impress you I just wanna 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 ol' 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 grumbling 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 ol' 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?..
Someday I'll be living in a big ol' city (Why you gotta be so?..)
And all you're ever gonna be is mean, yeah (Why you gotta be so?..)
Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me (Why you gotta be so?..)
And all you're ever gonna be is mean Why you gotta be so mean?