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 old city
And all your ever be is mean
Someday I’ll be big enough so you can't hit me
And all your ever gonna be is mean
Why you gotta be so mean?

You with your switching sides and wildfire like and your humilation
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 because I’ll never impress you
I just wanna feel okay again
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 your ever be is mean
Someday I’ll be big enough so you can’t hit me
And all your 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 rumbling on about how I can't sing
But all you are is mean

All you are is mean
And a liar, and pathetic, alone in life
And mean and mean and mean

Someday I’ll be living in a big old city
And all your ever be is mean, yeahhh
Someday I’ll be big enough so you can't hit me
And all your ever gonna be is mean
Why you gotta be so mean?

Someday I’ll be living in a big old city
And all your ever be is mean
Someday I’ll be big enough so you can't hit me
And all your ever gonna be is mean
Why you gotta be so mean?