Key: E
Introduction:
C# BA
You, with your words like knives and swords and weapons that you use against me
C# BA
You, have knocked me off my feet again got me feeling like I'm nothing
C# BA
You, with your voice like nails on a chalkboard, calling me out when I'm wounded
C# BA
You, pickin' on the weaker man
B C#A
Well, you can take me down with just one single blow
B C#A
But you don't know what you don't know
E B C#A
Someday I'll be living in a big old city
E BA
And all you're ever gonna be is mean
E B C#A
Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me
C# BA
And all you're ever gonna be is mean
A E D/E
Why you gotta be so mean?
Verse 2
C# BA
You, with your switching sides and your walk-by lies and your humiliation
C# BA
You, have pointed out my flaws again as if I don't already see them
C# BA
I'll walk with my head down trying to block you out 'cause I'll never impress you
C# BA
I just wanna feel okay again
B C#A
I'll bet you got pushed around, somebody made you cold
B C#A
But the cycle ends right now 'cause you can't lead me down that road
A
And you don't know what you don't know
B C#A
And I can see you years from now in a bar, talking over a football game
B C#A
With that same big loud opinion but nobody's listening
B C# BA
Washed up and ranting about the same old bitter things
B C# BA
Drunk and rambling on about how I can't sing
E B C#A
But all you are is mean
E B C#A
All you are is mean and a liar and pathetic and a f * * *ing whore
E B C#A
And mean, and mean, and mean, and mean
But someday I'll be living in a big old city