me You have knocked me off my feet again

Got me feeling like I'm 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 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 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 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 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 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 ol' city (Why you gotta be so?..)

And all you're ever gonna be is mean, yeah (Why you gotta be so?..)

Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me (Why you gotta be so?..)

And all you're ever gonna be is mean Why you gotta be so mean?