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
Some day I’ll be big enough so you cant hit me
And all you’re ever gonna be is meanWhy 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’ll walk with my head down trying to block you out cuz I'll never impress you
I just wanna feel okay again
I’ll bet you got pushed aroud, somebody made you cold
But the cycle ends right now cuz you cant lead me down that road
And you don’t know, but you don’t know

Someday I’ll be living in a big ole city
And all you’re ever gonna be is mean
Some day I’ll be big enough so you cant 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 nobodys listening
Washed up and ranting about the same old bitter things
Drunk and going on about how I cant 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 ole city
And all you’re ever gonna be is mean
Yeah some day I’ll be big enough so you cant 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 ole city
And all you’re ever gonna be is mean
Some day I’ll be big enough so you cant hit me
And all you’re ever gonna be is mean
Why you gotta be so mean?