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 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 ole 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 ole 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 alone in life
And mean and mean
and mean and mean
someday I'll be
living in a big ole 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 ole city
And all you're ever gonna be is mean
Why you gotta be so
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