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

Someday I'll be living in a big old 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