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 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
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 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 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?
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 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 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?
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 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 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?