You, with your words like knives
And swords and weapons that tu use against me
tu 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
tu picking on the weaker man

tu can take me down with just one single blow
But tu don't know, what tu 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 tu can't hit me
And all you're ever gonna be is mean
Why tu gotta be so mean?

You, with your switching sides
And your wildfire lies and your humiliation
tu have pointed out my flaws again
As if I don't already see them
I walk with my head down
Trying to block tu out 'cause I'll never impress you
I just wanna feel okay again

I bet tu got pushed around
Somebody made tu cold
But the cycle ends right now
'Cause tu can't lead me down that road
And tu don't know, what tu 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 tu can't hit me
And all you're ever gonna be is mean
Why tu gotta be so mean?

And I can see tu 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 amargo, amargos things
Drunk and grumbling on about how I can't sing
But all tu are is mean

All tu 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 tu can't hit me
And all you're ever gonna be is mean
Why tu gotta be so?..

Someday I'll be living in a big ol' city (Why tu gotta be so?..)
And all you're ever gonna be is mean (Why tu gotta be so?..)
Someday I'll be big enough so tu can't hit me (Why tu gotta be so?..)
And all you're ever gonna be is mean
Why tu gotta be so mean?