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 ol' city

And all you're ever going to be is mean
Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me
And all you're ever going to 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 going to be is mean

Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me
And all you're ever going to 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 going to be is mean, yeah yeah

Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me
And all you're ever going to be is mean
Why you gotta be so mean?


Someday I'll be living in a big ol' city
And all you're ever going to be is mean, yeah yeah

Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me
And all you're ever going to be is mean
Why you gotta be so mean?