Why you gotta be so mean?

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 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 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 walk-by 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 cause I'll never impress you,

I just wanna feel okay again

I'll bet you got pushed around, somebody made you cold

But the cycle ends right now cause you cant lead me down that road

And you dont know what you don't know

Someday I'll be living in a big old 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 cant' sing

But all you are is mean

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

and mean, and mean, and mean, and mean

But someboday I'll be living in a big old city

And all you're ever gonna be is mean, yeah

Someday, 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?