Key: E
C#m
B
You with your words
A
like knives and swords
And weapons that
C#m
B
You have knocked me
A
off my feet again
Got me feeling like a nothing
C#m
B
You with your voice like
A
nails on a chalk board
Callin me out when I'm wounded
C#m
B
A
You picking on the weaker man
B
Well you can take me down
E
A
B
with just one single blow
A
But you don't know
what you don't know
E
B
C#m
Someday I'll be living
A
in a big old city
E
B
And all you're ever
A
gonna be is mean
E
B
C#m
Someday I'll be big
A
enough so you can't hit me
E
B
And all you're ever
A
gonna be is mean
E
D
EB
Why you gotta be so mean?
C#m
You with your
B
switching sides and
A
Your wild fire lies
and your humiliation
C#m
B
A
You have pointed out my flaws again
As if I don't already see them
C#m
B
I walk with my head down
A
trying to block you out
cause I never impress you
C#m
B
A
I just wanna feel okay again
B
I bet you got pushed around
E
A
B
Somebody made you cold
But the cycle ends right now cause
A
You can't lead me down that road
And you don't know what you don't know
E
B
C#m
Someday I'll be living
A
in a big old city
E
B
And all you're ever
A
gonna be is mean
E
B
C#m
Someday I'll be big
A
enough so you can't hit me
E
B
And all you're ever
A
gonna be is mean
E
D
EB
Why you gotta be so mean?
B
And I can't see you years
from now in a bar
E
A
B
Talking over a football game
With that same big loud opinion
E
A
B
But no one's listening
Washed up and ranting about the
C#m
B
A
same old bitter things
B
Drunk and grumbling all
C#m
B
A
about how I can't sing
E
B
C#m
But all you are is mean
A
E
All you are is mean and a
B
C#m
liar and pathetic
A
E
And alone in life and mean
B
C#m
A
and mean and mean and mean
E
Someday I'll be living
in a big old city
E
B
C#m
Someday I'll be big
A
enough so you can't hit me
E
B
And all you're ever
A
gonna be is mean
Why you gotta be so mean?
E
B
C#m
Someday I'll be living
A
in a big old city
E
B
And all you're ever
A
gonna be is mean
E
B
C#m
Someday I'll be big
A
enough so you can't hit me
E
B
And all you're ever
A
gonna be is mean
E
Why you gotta be so mean?