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 me head down
Trying 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
Because 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 listenin'
Washed up and ranting about the same old bitter things
Drunken and goin' on all about
How I can't sing
And 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 EAH!
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?